SP -- The National Institutes of Health (NIH), Small Business Office (SBO) mission is to maximize prime and subcontract acquisition opportunities for small, small disadvantaged and small woman-owned business. One of the ways the SBO accomplishes its mission is by maintaining a repository of vendor capability information that is used to identify small business, small disadvantaged business, woman-owned small business and 8(a) prospective contractor capability for NIH contract requirements. The SBO is in the process of updating its repository and is expunging any capability statements dated prior to December 1996. The SBO is interested in receiving capability statements from the following types of firms: Biomedical and Behavioral Science Environments, Architect & Engineering, Animal Care, Conference Management/Management Consulting, General Construction, Facilities Management, Research & Development, Medical Supplies & Equipment, Security Services, Temporary Staffing Services, Training, Coordinating Centers, Health Care Consulting. Interested firms should submit capability information, noting size and ownership of business to the following address: NIH Small Business Office, 6100 Executive Boulevard, Suite 6D05-MSC 7540, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-7540. No telephone calls please.

Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0560 19970911\SP-0014.MSC)