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Z -- INSTALLATION OF SEWER LINE SOL 99-A-156 DUE 092999 POC Michael A. Douglas, Contracting Officer, (409) 260-9480 E-MAIL: click here to contact the contracting officer via, mdouglas@ars.usda.gov. The United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, intends to award a sole-source purchase order to City of Temple, Water Department, 2 North Main Street, Temple, Texas. The work will include the installation of a sewer line that will tie the USDA, Laboratory into the City sewer system. The service will be aquired sole-source as authorized under, 41 U.S.C. 253 (c)(2) and FAR 6.302-1(b)(3) When aquiring utility services, circumstances may dictate that only one supplier can furnish the service; or when the contemplated contract is for construction of a part of a utility system and the utility company itself is the only source available to work on the system. Posted 09/15/99 (W-SN380771). (0258)

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