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M -- TURNER-FAIRBANK HIGHWAY RESEARCH CENTER FACILITY MAINTENANCE SERVICES SOL DTFH61-98-R-00062 DUE 051198 POC Rick Murray, Contract Specialist, HAM-40D, 202-366-2863 WEB: FHWA's Office of Acquisition Management Home Page, http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/aaa/hamhome.htm. E-MAIL: click here to send an email to to Rick Murray, rick.murray@fhwa.dot.gov. The purpose of this solicitation is to award a performance based service contract to furnish the necessary nonpersonal services including all supervision, personnel, equipment, materials, and other items necessary to perform Office and Administrative Services, Facilities Security and Equipment Monitoring, Grounds Maintenance, Custodial Services, and Facilities Management, for the period of performance at the Department of Transportation (DOT), Federal Highway Administration's Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center, a federal wned and controlled laboratory facility and office complex located in McLean, Virginia. The facility consists of three distinct buildings consisting of approximately 178,000 square feet of office and laboratory space situated on 43 acres of paved, turfed, and forested land. This is a follow procurement a contract awarded to Raven Services Corporation, Alexandria, VA (DTFH61-93-C-00001 on 2/26/93 for $5,266,501). This solicitation is 100% set aside for small business. SIC Code 8744applies. NO FURTHER INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. Submit written requests for copies of the solicitation to the address indicated above and include two (2) self-addressed gummed labels. The requestor's DUN and Bradstreet (DUNS) number, point of contact and telephone number, should be included in the request along with two (2) self-addressed and gummed, return labels in order to expedite the request. The solicitation number should appear on the bottom edge of the labels. A separate written request is required for each solicitation package being requested. NO TELEPHONE, FAX OR E-MAIL REQUESTS WILL BE ACCEPTED. All RFP's will be mailed in 3 1/2" diskette, WordPerfect 6.1 format, to offerors who send in written requests. Amendments, if any, will be mailed either in hardcopy or diskette format. The RFP and its forms/attachments will also available for downloading on our Webpage at HTTP://WWW.FHWA.DOT.GOV/AAA/HAMHOME.HTM. If you download copies of solicitations from our Webpage you will NOT automatically receive any amendments to those solicitations unless you have also sent in the written request. It is your responsibility to check back frequently to see if FHWA has issued any amendments to solicitations you have downloaded. All amendments will be posted on, and may be downloaded from, our Webpage. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered by FHWA. This Notice is for informational purposes for Minority, Woman-Owned and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises: The Department of Transportation (DOT), Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU), has a program to assist minority, woman-owned and disadvantaged business enterprises to acquire short-term working capital assistance for transportation-related contracts. Loans are available under the DOT Short Term Lending Program (STLP) at prime interest rate to provide accounts receivable financing. The maximum line of credit is $500,000. For further information and applicable forms concerning the STLP, call the OSDBU at (800) 532-1169. For information concerning the acquisition, contact the contracting official listed above. See Note 1. (0071)

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