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D -- METROPOLITAN AREA ACQUISITION VENDOR COMMENTS SOL TQD-RH-97-0002 POC Robert Hayhurst (703) 610-2234 WEB: Metropolitan Area Acquisition, http://www.gsa.gov/maa. E-MAIL: Contracting Officer, robert.hayhurst@gsa.gov. Notice of Intent to Issue Comments on Draft Metropolitan Area Acquisition RQS. As part of the continuing, open discussion related to provision of services through the Metropolitan Area Acquisition (MAA) Program, the General Services Administration, Federal Telecommunications Service intends to publish industry comments on the MAA Draft request for Qualification Statements (RQS) which were due August 18, 1997. The comments will be redacted to eliminate any references to specific vendors. The comments will be available in Microsoft Word 7.0 format on GSA's Internet mail address at http://www.gsa.gov/maa on or about September 15, 1997. Any vendors which have responded and consider some or all of their comments to be proprietary should contact the MAA contracting officer by September 10, 1997. Such correspondence should be addressed to: MAA Contracting Officer, Robert A. Hayhurst via facsimile to (703) 610-1642 or e-mail to robert.hayhurst@gsa.gov. Questions concerning this notice may be directed to (703) 610-2234. The government will also publish policy decisions regarding the MAA solicitation in response to major issues gathered from vendors' written comments and the vendor information meetings which were held from August 4 to August 15, 1997. This information will also be available in Microsoft Word 7.0 format on GSA's Internet mail address at http://www.gsa.gov/maa on or about September 30, 1997. (0248)

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