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

F -- EXPLORATION GEOSCIENCE ATLAS/REPORT PACKAGE SOL 9-8100-0005 POC Mary A. Haden, Contracting Officer, (303) 275-7376 The Minerals Management Service intends to award a Purchase Order to Arlen Ehm, 2420 Foxhall Drive, Anchorage, Alaska 99504, utilizing other than full and open competition for the purchase of a Exploration Geoscience package which includes a Structural/Stratigraphic Atlas, North Slope/Canadian Border Report and a Chukchi Sea/Natural Petroleum Reserve Report in hard and digital copies. 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 06/28/99 (W-SN348087). (0179)

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