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R -- NIAAA HEALTH SERVICES NEWSLETTER SOL AA 98-13 DUE 070698 POC Matthew L. Packard, Contract Specialist, 301-443-1191 WEB: NIAAA Home Page, http://www.niaaa.nih.gov. E-MAIL: Sandra Reichard, sreichar@willco.niaaa.nih.gov. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) intends to negotiate on a sole-source basis with the Association for Health Services Research (AHSR) for a project entitled "NIAAA Health Services Research Newsletter." The statutory authority to negotiate with AHSR is 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1) under FAR reference 6.302-1. The purpose of the proposed contract is to produce and disseminate two issues of an NIAAA sponsored newsletter, linking the producers and users of health services research in the field of alcohol abuse and alcoholism, in the AHSR publication Frontlines. AHSR is the only national membership organization formed solely to promote the field of health services research and to strengthen the relationship between the users and producers of research, and as such has a unique perspective on the field of alcohol related health services research both in terms of the state of scientific progress and knowledge of what sorts of information is useful to the consumers of alcohol related healthservices research. The AHSR has exclusive rights to the Frontlines newsletter. Inquiries must be made in writing; telephone inquiries are unacceptable. See Note Number 26.***** (0142)

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