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42 -- DRAFT OF EPIRB BUY ON WEB SOL N66604-97-R-5582 DUE 091297 POC K. McGrath, Contracting Officer at (401) 841-2442 X220; FAX (401) 841-4820. WEB: Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Newport, http://www.npt.nuwc.navy.mil/contract/. E-MAIL: K. McGrath, Contracting Officer, MCGRATH@CODE59.NPT.NUWC.NAVY.MIL. NUWC has issued a partial solicitation draft on its Webpage (http://www.npt.nuwc.navy.mil/contract/) for the procurement of Submarine EPIRBs. NUWC envisions the procurement to involve a "repackaging" of readily available commercial EPIRBs so that they can be launched from a submarine. Appropriate comments received in response to the draft on the Web will be incorporated into a formal solicitation which will be released in September or October of 1997. The formal solicitation will be separately synopsized in the CBD prior to its release. (0226)

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