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66 -- SLIP RING LIFE TEST ASSEMBLY SOL N00173-98-Q-0045 POC Darlene Copp, Purchasing Agent, (202) 767-2374 Fax (202) 404-8158. The Naval Research Laboratory intends to award to Ball Aerospace on other than full and open competitive basis for the purchase of a 30 ring slip ring life test assembly (spacecraft rotational data and power transfer device). Award will be made on the sole source basis to maintain compatiblity with a baseline gold wire slip ring process design which is proprietary to Ball Aerospace. See Numbered Note(s): 22. (0099)

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