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A -- AMERICAN STOP SMOKING INTERVENTION STUDY FOR CANCER PREVENTION SOL n/a POC Theresa H. Shroff, Contracting Officer, (301) 496-8603 E-MAIL: Theresa H. Shroff, shrofft@rcb.nci.nih.gov. Contact : Theresa H. Shroff, Contracting Officer, Prevention and Control Contracts Section, Research Contracts Branch, National Cancer Institute/NIH, Executive Plaza South, Room 635E, Bethesda, MD, 20892-7226, (301) 496-8603. The National Cancer Institute intends to negotiate a one year extension of related activities to the existing contracts with the seventeen State health departments who are contractors under the American Stop Smoking Intervention (ASSIST) Study for Cancer Prevention. The goal of the ASSIST project is to reduce cancer mortality rates through reduction of tobacco use and this extension will allow contractors to continue effective smoking prevention and control activities within their communities through September 1999. Inherent duplication of cost to the Government and unacceptable delays in continued implementation of this project make competition unfeasible for this contract action. The deadline for response is 45 days from the date of this synopsis. Authority: 41 USC 253 (c) (1),as set forth in FAR 6.302-1. See Numbered Note 22. (0212)

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