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61 -- LIGHTWEIGHT PORTABLE POWER SYSTEM (LPPS) SOL 9TE-TC-97-0045 DUE 072597 POC Jo Ann Lew, Contracting Officer 415/522-4550. Lightweight portable power system (LPPS) to house and provide power to Government-owned, secure telephone equip. mfg. by Lockheed Martin, Lucent Technologies, and Motorola; and other GFE. For use worldwide in a variety of field environments, LPPS must meet specific requirements for size, weight, power, balance, and operation. Only products manufactured by firms who successfully demonstrated a capability of meeting the Government's specification on 3/17/97 will be considered: STS International, 5401 Christy Drive, Suite 100, Bethesda, MD 20816, 301/320-4013; Turtle Mountain Communications, 1707 Triangle Park Drive, Maryville, TN 37801, 423/977-8518; and Universal Power Systems Inc., 11212 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, VA 22030, 703/352-8644. Issue date of Request for Proposal No. 9TE-TC-97-0045 is o/a 6/25/97; closing date for receipt of offers is 7/25/97. This is a small business set-aside. Contracting officer will make an electronic copy of RFP available after receipt of written request accompanied by 3.5" diskette (IBM formatted) and overnight mailer with return label. No phone or faxed requests will be accepted. See Note 1. (0150)

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