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A -- DEVELOPMENT OF DYNA3D ANALYSIS TOOLS FOR ROADSIDE SAFETY APPLICATIONS SOL DTFH61-98-R-00071 DUE 070698 POC Stacey Diamond, Contract Specialist, HAM30A, (202) 366-0730 The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) plans to issue a full and open competitive solicitation. The objective of this contract is to develop and to implement into the LS-DYNA code individual material models for wood, soil, and concrete which mimic "real world behavior" including failure and are fully capable of operating in an LS-DYNA computational environment. -- NOTE: Submit written requests for copies of the solicitation to the address indicated above and include two (2) self-addressed gummed labels. No telephone, fax or e-mail requests will be accepted. All RFP's will be mailed in 3 " 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 are 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. (0120)

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