Minerals Management Service, Box 25165, Mail Stop 2730, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225-0165

99 -- GEOLOGICAL & GEOPHYSICAL NPR-A STATE DATA SOL 9-8100-0004 POC Mary A. Haden, 303-275-7376, Contracting Officer The Minerals Management Service intends to award a purchase order to ARCO Alaska, Inc., P.O. Box 100360, Anchorage, Alaska 99510-0360, utilizing other than full and open competition for the purchase of approximately 6 square miles of 3-D seismic data. The subject data lies outside the Federal National Petroleum Reserve -- Alaska jurisdiction on State of Alaska lands. This data is acquired from the Alpine Survey in the Alpine Oil Field, Alaska. No solicitation is available for this sole source acquisition. Authority for this non-competitive acquisition is found under 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1). See numbered Notes 22 and 26. Posted 05/27/99 (W-SN336777). (0147)

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