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R -- FOREIGN WATERBORNE IN-TRANSIT DATA SOL DACW29-97-Q-0210 DUE 080897 POC Charles Zammit, Contract Specialist, (504) 862-1164, Kenneth J. Enclade, Contracting Officer, (504) 862-2871 The US Army Engineer District New Orleans, Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center has a requirement for Calendar Year 1997 Foreign Waterborne In-transit Data. This acquisition will include a comprehensive electronic data base of inbound and outbound waterborne in-transit cargo movements; i.e. foreign cargo moving through the United States from one foreign country to another via U.S. coastal ports. This data is to be extracted directly from U.S. Custom's shipping manifests. In prior years this data was coded and digitized by the Bureau of Census. The Bureau of Census has discontinued this service however, and the only known source for similar data is Port Import Export Reporting Service (PIERS) of New York, New York. The Corps intends to contract noncompetitively with PIERS for this data under the authority of FAR 6.302-1 (See Note 22). (0203)

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