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16 -- TUBE ASSEMBLY, #5 SOL F41608-99-R-44009 DUE 121299 POC The Point of Contact is Julia A. Harlow, LPKAF, Phone: (210)925-6566, FAX: (210)925-8596 WEB: SA-ALC, Kelly AFB Business Opportunities, http://www.kelly-afb.org/links/proc/index.html. E-MAIL: Send your E-Mail request to the POC, jharlow@lpgate1.kelly.af.mil. Supply: Tube Assembly #5; NSN: 4710-01-418-8290PT; P/N: 4085095; QTY: 1400**; U/I: Each;PREDOMINANT MATERIAL: Ni Alloy and Co Alloy; FUNCTION: Pressure tube is used to supply oil to the No. 5 bearing. Applicable to the F100 engine model series. **Solicitation to be issued will be for a three-year requirements' contract. The first year is the basic, then two one-year option periods. The following are the BEQs (Best Estimated Quantities) for each year: Year 1 (basic) 800 each; Year 2 (option year 1): 300 each; Year 3 (option year 2): 300 each. Solicitation is expected to be issued approximately 11 Dec 98. To be eligible for contract award, offerors must be approved sources in accordance with I-70 of the solicitation. The Government is not required to delay contract award to review pending Source Approval Requests (SARs). Therefore, offerors are encouraged to submit SARs as soon as possible. If the Government has not completed review of the SAR when the contract is awarded, the SAR will be retained and the source will be reviewed for possible Source Approval for future awards. Government-furnished drawings are not available. Approved sources are United Technologies, Whitney Aircraft Group, West Palm Beach, FL and Lewis and Saunders Inc., Laconia, NH. All potential offerors should contact the buyer/PCO identified in this notice for additional information and/or to communicate concerns, if any, concerning this acquisition. If your concerns are not satisfied by the contracting officer, an Ombudsman has been appointed to hear concerns from offerors or potential offerors during the proposal development phase of an acquisition. The Ombudsman does not diminish the authority of the program director or Contracting Officer, but communicates Contractor concerns, issues, disagreements, and recommendations to the appropriate Government personnel. When requested, the Ombudsman shall maintain strict confidentially as to the source of the concern. The Ombudsman does not participate in the evaluation of proposals or in the source selection process. Interested parties are invited to call the SA-ALC Acquisition Ombudsman at AC 210-925-5133 or send E-Mail to: ombudsman@www.kelly-afb.org. See Note(s) 22,23,26 Posted 11/20/98 (D-SN273380). (0324)

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