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R -- UNIFORM PHYSICAL INSPECTION PROTOCOL (UPIP) SOL R-OPC-21123 POC Amelia McCormick, Contract Specialist (202) 708-1772 Ext. 111 WEB: "Click here to download the solicitation from the HUD Contracting Opportunities Web Page", "http://www.hud.gov/cts/ctsoprty.html". E-MAIL: "Click here to contact Amelia McCormick, Amelia_E._McCormick@hud.gov.. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has created a new national Real Estate Assessment Center (REAC) in Washington, D.C. One of the responsibilities of the REAC is to assess the physical condition of HUD's portfolio (public housing, FHA-insured, assisted and similar properties). HUD developed a new computerized uniform and objective inspection software for use in hand-held computers when conduting physical inspections for the REAC. HUD anticipated hiring private contractors to conduct a portion of the required inspections. Selected contractors would download property profile information via the Internet from HUD data bases, conduct the inspections using the HUD inspection software and their own hand-held computers and upload results back to the HUD data bases. The REAC will then score the physical inspection based on the pre-determined scoring methodology and will use the inspection scores along with scores form other areas (i. e., finance, management and customer satisfaction) tocomplete assessments of the individual properties and property owners. The solicitation will be available on or about June 15, 1998. Interested parties may obtain a copy of the solicitation by submitting a written request with two-self addressed gummed labels. HUD posts all required notices of its contracting opportunities on its Internet Home Page Contracting Opportunities site http://www.hud.gov.cts/ct. Potential offerors who download copies of solicitations from HUD's Home Page will NOT automatically receive any amendments to those solicitations. You are advised to check back frequently to see if HUD has issued any amendments to those solicitation you have obtained. All amendments will be posted on, and may be downloaded from HUD's Home Page Contracting Opportunities site. Potential offerors who previously submitted a Request for Proposal for this solicitation need not re-submit a request. (0138)

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