Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt, Division of Procurement, 200 Third Street, Room 207, Parkersburg WV 26101-5312

R -- CLIPPING SERVICES SOL BPD-97-CI-0013 DUE 081797 POC Contract Specialist, Cheryl Miller 304-480-7661, Contracting Officer, Tammie S. Johnson 304-480-6529 WEB: Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt, Division of Procurement, http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/oa/oaprocr.htm. E-MAIL: Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt, Division of Procurement, procurement@bpd.treas.gov. The Bureau of the Public Debt, Department of the Treasury will issue a commercial item solicitation for domestic advertising and publicity clippings and/or tearsheet services for savings bond information. The contractor will be required to provide clippings containing public service advertisements, promotional advertisements or articles, feature article or stories relating to savings bonds, payroll saving and volunteers' savings bonds campaign articles. The Contractor will be required to clip items from publication in the following categories: Major Dailies, Small Dailies, Major Weeklies, Small Weeklies, Major National Publications and Small National Publications. Reports shall be submitted on a quarterly basis and will be broken down into three regions and a National Publications category. The contract will be for a base period of one year and four option periods of one year each. Request for the solicitation document must be made in writing. Telephonic requests will not be accepted; however, requestsmay be faxed to (304) 480-6632. Receipt of faxed request must be confirmed in by calling (304) 480-6529. This requirement is being solicited on an unrestricted basis; however, small and small disadvantaged businesses are encouraged to respond. (0183)

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