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B -- AN ENGINEERING ASSESSMENT OF DOUBLE WALL VERSUS SINGLE WALL DESIGNS FOR OFFSHORE PIPELINES IN AN ARTIC ENVIRONMENT SOL 1435-01-99-RP-31004 DUE 050399 POC J. CALLAS, Contracting Officer and L. Donley, Procurement Technician both can be reached at (703) 787-1354 WEB: See above, http://www.mms.gov (MMS Homepage) and http://www.mms.gov/tarp/home.htm (Technology Assessment and Research Branch section of the homepage). The purpose of this announcement is to make FOUR changes to the original announcement dated approximately 3/29/1999. CHANGE (1): Proposals shall be due on MONDAY, MAY 3, 1999 at 12:00 P.M. EDT. CHANGE (2): Offerors are informed that this is a fixed priced contract and offerors shall propose in four equal Phases (each phase shall be described by the contractor). Line Items (L/I) shall be as follows: L/I 01 -- Phase 1; L/I 02 -- Phase 2 (this phase shall include an oral mid-term (project update) briefing to be held in Anchorage); L/I 03 -- Phase 3; and L/I 04 -- Phase 4(this phase shall include the final briefing to be held in Anchorage as well as submitting the final report). CHANGE (3): The deliverable for this contract shall be five (5) paper copies and one reproducible copy. The deliverable shall also be available in digital copy that will be at the least MS Word 97 for text, MS excel 97 for spreadsheets, Assess 97 for databases and Power Point 07 for presentation material. The digital final report can be submitted on a 3.5 inch floppy disk or for larger files, an 100 MB Zip Disk. Additionally, for public distribution purposes, final reports shall be in .pdf files that can be read using Acrobat Reader 3.0. CHANGE (4): For clarification purposes, the contract period is six months. The anticipated level of effort is from three quarters to one-man year level of effort. The estimated dollar amount is between $100,000 and $175,000. All other terms and conditions, and information is provided in the original synopsis. Posted 04/07/99 (W-SN317445). (0097)

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