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R -- PREEMPLOYMENT REQUISITIONS SOL GFB00000017 DUE 123199 POC Catherine Pinkney, Purchasing Agent (202) 708-1772 ext. 7125 WEB: Click here to download the request from the HUD Contracting, http://www.hud.gov/cts/ctsoprty.html. E-MAIL: Click here to contact Catherine B. Pinkney, Catherine_B._Pinkney@hud.gov. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) plans to issue a Request for Quotations under the Simplified Acquisitiion procedures for services of a contractor that will provide all required pre-employment background checks and handle administrattive aspects of arranging for fingerprints, physicals and drug testing. A formal Request for Quotations will be issued on or about December 31, 1999. The period of performance will be from date of award through September 30, 2000. All requests for the Request for Quotations shall be faxed to Catherine Pinkney, (202) 708-2933, no telephone or e-mail request will be accepted. HUD posts all required notices of its contracting opportunities on its Internet Home Page Contracting Opportunities site at http://www.hud.gov/cts/ctsoprty.html. Potential offerors who download copies of solicitations from HUD's Home page will NOT automatically receive any amendments to those solicitations. You are advised to check back frequently to see if HUD has issued any amendments to solicitations you have obtained from HUD's Home Page Contracting Opportunities site. Posted 12/16/99 (W-SN409172). (0350)

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