CONTRACT TO PROVIDE MANUFACTURED HOME MONITORING ACTIVITIES RELATING TO IPIA, DAPIA, AND SAA PRINCIPAL TASKS The Department is contemplating issuance of a sole source modification to the above referenced contract for providing monitoring services on manufactured home construction and safety standards programs to the National Conference of States on Building Codes and Standards, 505 Huntmar Park Drive, Suite 210, Herndon, VA 22070. The purpose of the modification is to extend the performance period of this agreement for twelve (12) months beyond the current expiration date of October 22, 1997. The extension is required to allow sufficient time to openly compete a new procurement to provide these services. It is expected that the follow-on competition will be advertised within the next week. HUD has established a monitoring system to verify compliance with the manufactured housing standards. Under this contract modification, the contractor, is serving as HUD's monitoring agent and will continue the current contract services and activities related to the DAPIAs(Design Approval Primary Inspection Agencies, the IPIAs (Production Inspection Primary Inspection Agencies) and the SAA (State Administrative Agencies). The DAPIAs are responsible for approving manufactured homes designs and each plants quality assurance manual. The IPIAs are basically responsible for inspecting production facilities to assure compliance with federal standards and the SAAs which carries out the State plan for enforcement of the and assist in the handling of consumer complaints. This notice of intent to issue a modification is not a formal Request for Proposal. Consequently, no RFP is available. This notice is for information purposes only and therefore does not require individual acknowledgement by responders to the Government. See Note 22. Interested offerors for a copy of the follow-on competitive solicitation should request a copy in accordance with instructions of that synopsis, upon publication. E-MAIL: Click here to contact MelvinW.Gunn, Melvin_W._Gunn@hud.gov.

Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0698 19970910\SP-0007.MSC)