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T -- BOOK DEACIDIFICATION SERVICES FOR THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SOL RFP97-15 POC Kaye Klinker, Contracting Officer, (202) 707-8608 WEB: The Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov. E-MAIL: The Library of Congress, mday@loc.gov. The Library of Congress intends to negotiate with Perservation Technologies, Inc. (PTI), 111 Thomson Park Drive, Cranberry Township, PA 16066 for a four year effort to deacidify an estimated 275,000 Library books, utilizing the Bookkeeper deacidification process. The Library also intends to utilize PTI contract services to perform in-house Library book handling functions (such as pulling, charging, packing, shipping, receiving, and refiling) that support the mass deacidification contract work flow. Any other company (1) that is currently offering mass deacidification services within the continental U.S. by utilizing an operational technology that has not been fully evaluated and tested within the last two years by the Library; and, (2) which company believes its process can meet all of the Library's advertised deacidification technical requirements as contained in its Request For Proposals (RFP90-21) dated 09/13/90 (copies available from the CO upon request) can apply to the Library during the next three years for evaluation and testing of that process (see additional announcement RFI97-1). (0155)

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