U.S. ARMY SOLDIER SYSTEMS COMMAND, ACQUISITION CENTER, AMSSC-AD, NATICK MA 01760-5011

K -- UPGRADE MOBILE KITCHEN TRAILER SOL DAAN02-98-T-1179 DUE 062298 POC Contract Specialist Roberta Boswell (508) 233-4956 (Site Code DAAN02) The U.S. Army Soldier Systems Command intends to conduct negotiations with and award a Purchase Order, using simplified acquisition procedures to Penn Metal Fabricators, 2103 New Germany Road, Ebensburg, PA on a basis of other than full and open competition,to fabricate five (5) Mobile Kitchen Trailers MKT upgrade kits. Penn Metal is the company that developed the origianl prototype kit on this Kitchen Trailer. These items are quired for test and evaluation for the final MKT-1 upgrade kits. Penn Metal has the knowledge and expertise from their research to fabricate these items which need to be field tested as part of the ongoing research. No quotation document is available. See Note 22. (0153)

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