OVERSEAS LOCAL GUARD SERVICE -- STATEBUY INTERACTIVE PLATFORM The Department of State is now initiating an enhancement to its Acquisition Home Page to provide greater functionality to both State and industry customers. The Office of the Procurement Executive (A/OPE) has made arrangements with the Army's Communications Electronics Command (CECOM) to use CECOM facilities and technical support to establish the Statebuy Interactive Platform (SIP). The SIP will allow overseas posts and domestic contracting offices to post their own solicitations directly on the Internet through a link to the "Statebuy" web site. Companies may then subscribe to receive automatic E-mail notification of a single solicitation or a group of solicitations (by CBD category, such as S for local guard). In addition, the SIP will allow offerors, at their option, to register to submit proposals electronically using a secure site. The goal is to increase the number of solicitations posted via the Internet rather than mailed in paper form, as well as to promote further automation in the acquisition process through automatic E-mail notification and submission of proposals. To access the SIP and subscribe and/or register, contractors should go to the Statebuy web site, Business Opportunities page, located at the following URL: www.statebuy.inter.net/busops.htm and click on the the Statebuy Interactive Platform button. Companies are requested to provide feedback to stuart.c.toleman@dos.us-state.gov or martha.l.loverde@dos.us-state.gov as implementation of the SIP proceeds. WEB: Statebuy Web Site Business Opportunities, http://www.statebuy.inter.net/busops.htm. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the SIP administrator via E-mail, martha.l.loverde@dos.us-state.gov. Posted 07/01/98.

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