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R -- REAL ESTATE ASSET MANAGEMENT SERVICES, AREA 4 SOL R-CHI-00192 DUE 040198 POC Alfredo Valentin, Contract Specialist 312-886-2760 Extension 2509 WEB: Click here to go to HUD's Contracting Opportunities Web Page, http://www.hud.gov/cts/ctsoprty.html. E-MAIL: Click here to contact Alfredo Valentin, Alfredo_Valentin@hud.gov. Correct CBD announcement dated December 8, 1997, to correct HUD's Home Page Contracting Opportunities site to read as follows: http://www.hud.gov/cts/ctsoprty.html. Solicitation R-CHI-00192 will be issued on March 2, 1998 and proposals are due on April 1, 1998. Contract award under this solicitation will be made using new procedures set forth in Part 15 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (48 CFR Chapter 1) as amended on September 30, 1997 (see Federal Register 9/30/97, p. 51224). Please note that these procedures differ from those previously used to select contractors. Yo are advised to read the solicitation carefully. Your attention is called in particular to the solicitation provision at 52.215-1 Instructions to Offerors -- Competitive Acquisition, Alternate I found in Section L of the solicitation. All other statements of the previous CBD announcement remain unchanged. (0055)

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