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22 -- NEW 69 AND 68 FOOT FLAT CARS SOL DTRS57-99-B-00011 DUE 031299 POC Point of Contact -- Guy Hillman, Contracting Officer, (617) 494-3401 WEB: Volpe Center Acquisition Division home page, http://www.volpe.dot.gov/procure/index.html. E-MAIL: Contracting Officer, Hillman@volple.dot.gov. The Volpe National Transportation Systems Center intends to purchase up to thirty (30) new flatcars. The flat cars shall be standard 56-= inch gage with a minimum load capacity of 100 tons. The contractor shall provide new rail flatcars in the following lengths and numbers ten (10) 68 foot and twenty (20) 89-foot cars. Detailed specifications and minimum requirements will be set forth in the solicitation. The SIC Code for this procurement is 3743,1000 employees. The subject solicitation and related documents will be available in electronic format only on the Volpe Center Acquisition Division home page on the World Wide Web. NO HARD COPIES of this solicitation are available. These documents will be available in text format and reside on a WWW server, which may be accessed using Web browser s. The WWW address is http://www.volpe.dot.gov/procure/index.html. Offerors desiring to receive a copy of the solicitation and any related documents must register at this site to receive electronic notification of the solicitation posting and availability for downloading. Contractors are warned that when they register to receive solicitations, amendments, and other notices, the responsibility for providing the Government with an accurate and complete e-mail address lies with the contractor. The Government will make no additional efforts to deliver information when the system indicates that transmissions cannot be delivered to the e-mail address provided. Telephone requests will not be honored. This notice is for informational purposes for Minority, Women-Owned and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises: The Department of Transportation (DOT), Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU), has a program to assist minority, women-owned and disadvantaged business enterprises to acquire short-term working capital assistance for transportation-related contracts. Loans are available under the DOT Short Term Lending Program (STLP) at prime interest rates to provide accounts receivable financing. The maximum line ofcredit is $500,000. For further information and applicable forms concerning the STLP, please call the OSDBU at (800) 532-1169. For information concerning acquisition, contact the contracting official listed above. Posted 02/10/99 (D-SN296883). (0041)

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