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W -- VIBRACORE SYSTEM DUE 052099 POC Diane Peters, fax 703-648-7901 E-MAIL: Contracting Officer, fpeters@usgs.gov. The U.S. Geological Survey (AUSGS) has a requirement for the lease of Vibracore System. THE USGS ANTICIPATES AWARDING THE PURCHASE ORDER TO COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY (CCU), this company's Vibracoring system meets the stringent criteria required: 1) it has a large, strong vibration unit capable of driving a lined steel core barrel through up to five meters of hard-packed glaciofluvial sediments and moderately-indurated Cretaceous strata; 2) it is capable of driving and recovering a 7.5 meter core from 80 meters water depth, and is electrically rather than hydraulically/phneumatically powered to allow it to function at this depth; 3) it has an integrated core extraction winch that relieves the ship of bearing the full dynamic load of core extraction. CCU designed, built and field tested over the past 18 months, this large, electrically-powered, integrated -extraction vibracore system. No substitutions are allowed. This system has been the subject of international attention as the preferred method of obtaining long vibracores in hard substrates and/or deep water. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY; no formal RFQ will be available. Vendors who manufacture the above item are invited to provide an affirmative response to this notice. An affirmative response must include, but not be limited to offered products, price lists, warranties, and any additional information indicating a bona fide ability to meet this requirement. All responses must be received in this office within 10 calendar days from the date this publication first appears. All responses must be in writing, no telephone requests will be accept Posted 05/11/99 (W-SN329928). (0131)

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