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B -- RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS (SOUTH AFRICA) SOL 645/0089z/00 DUE 060800 POC Kevin Pryor (202) 231-2878 WEB: none, none. E-MAIL: none, pryor_kevin@hotmail.com. The Virginia Contracting Activity on behalf of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) intends to award a sole source Firm-Fixed Price contract to Stratfor Inc. The contractor will complete three baseline research task.1) recent history 2) emergent pressures and 3) future contingencies on the Government, economy and armed forces of South Africa. The exercise is restricted to lower tier DODIPP designated country South Africa. All responses should reference PR 645/0089Z/00. Interested parties have 15 days from the publication date of this synopsis to submit their qualification/ capabilities. Such qualifications/capabilities will be used solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a full and open competition basis. Responses received without the requested information may be considered non-responsive to the synopsis. Oral communications are not accepted. A determination by the Virginia Contracting Activity not to compete this proposed procurement on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this synopsis is solely within the discretion of the Virginia Contracting Activity. Please indicate business size when submitting a response. Submit responses to the attention of Kevin Pryor, Contracting Specialist, VACA, DAP-2 Posted 05/24/00 (W-SN458378). (0145)

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