Minerals Management Service, Box 25165, Mail Stop 2730, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225-0165

R -- BUSINESS PROCESS REENGINEERING SERVICES POC Mary Jo Patrick, 303-275-7373, Contract Specialist The Minerals Management Service (MMS) intends to award a purchase order covering the period Oct 1997 through Sep 1998 to Gene Rouleau and Associates, Inc. 326 Kiowa Drive East, Lake Kiowa, TX 76240 utilizing other than full and open competition to provide Business Process Reengineering Services in the form of consulting, training, technical support and facilitation. This contractor has unique experience and expertise in this field in addition to specific knowledge of MMS past and on-goig reengineering and development plans essential to successful implementation of changes mandated by the Royalty Simplification and Fairness Act. No solicitation is available for this sole source acquisition. Authority for this non-competitive acquisition is found under 41 U.S.C. 253 (c) (1) (0267)

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