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S -- PACKING, CRATING, STORAGE SOL S-OPRAQ-97-B-0116 DUE 081497 POC Reaver Taylor, 703-875-5077, or Robert Powell, Contracting Officer, 703-875-6030 WEB: State Department Acquisition Web Site, http://www.statebuy.inter.net/home.htm. E-MAIL: Packing, Crating, Storage, Reaver.Taylor@dos.us-state.gov. The Department of State (DOS) has a requirement to seek a firm capable of providing a non-personal services contract for providing receipt, inspection, inventorying, consolidation, deconsolidation, export packing, temporary storage, and delivery to pier and related services connected with the forwarding and receiving of U.S. Government-owned furniture, furnishings, commissary items, supplies, personally owned and government owned vehicles, and equipment required by the Department of State for its Foreign Service Posts, and forwarding/receiving household effects (HHE) belonging to U.S. Government employees. Unless otherwise specified, all Contractor deliveries are "FAS" carrier Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, Florida Commercial Zones. For purposes of this contract, the contractor's place of performance must be within a ten (10) mile radius of the U.S. Despatch Agency office in Miami, Florida. The contract is to run for a base year and four (4) one year options. This requirement is 100% Small Business Set-Aside SIC Code 4783 size standard 18.5 million. Copies of this bidders package may be obtained from Reaver Taylor by fax (703) 875-6085. All bidders are encouraged to request a copy of this IFB through Internet. (0177)

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