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47 -- JAPAN: PLIABLE CONDUIT FOR PROTECTION OF CABLES due 090296 POC NTT America, Inc., Corporate Headquarters, 101 Park Avenue, 41st Floor New York, NY 10178, 212/661-0810 also NTT America Inc., Pacific and Western Division 800 El Camino Real West, Suite 103 Mountain View, CA 94040, 415/940-6565 This public notice is to request suppliers to provide NTT with general referential information on similar products or technology prior to procurement of the intended product (mentioned below) by NTT. This public notice is also to request that any suppliers wishing to participate as a subcontractor in the procurement program of this product should declare their intentions to that effect. This public notice is not intended to guarantee public notification of procurement of the product. (1)Name: Pliable conduit for protection of cables (2)Overview: This product is utilized for protecting underground communications cables (3)Description of the Request for Information: Applicants are requested to supply NTT with the following information on similar products, or on technology relating, to the product previously-mentioned above. (However, entire supplied information will be regarded as non-secret information and may be disclosed to third parties in the form of, for example, inclusion in the corresponding Procurement Documentation, or may become available to third parties. Regardless in such cases, NTT will not assume any responsibility for possible outcomes arising from the management, disclosure, or use of the supplied information.) (i) Technical information: (1)-a. Main feature (i)-b. Main directions for use (i)-c. Reliability (i)-d. Strength characteristics (i)-e. External form (composition/structure) (i)-f. Weights (i)-g. Material (i)-h. Reference standard (ii) Prices: Price per unit (iii) Standard time of delivery after ordering (iv) Others: (iv) -a. Records of sale and installations (iv) -b. Plan for enhancement (iv) -c. Maintenance (iv) -d. Active proposals likely to become useful for increasing the business of NTT. (4) Request for Declaration of the Intention of Subcontracting: Any suppliers wishing to participate as a subcontractor in the product procurement program of NTT are requested to supply NTT with the information listed below. After preparing a list of supplied information, NTT will provide the list to applicants interested in obtaining it; to those who have responded to the request for supply of the information listed in Item (3); and to those who have purchased the Procurement Documentation to procurement of the product. However, NTT will not assume any responsibility for possible outcomes arising from supply of the list. (i) Name of the applicant (ii) Place of contact (Address, name of person in charge, telephone number, and facsimile number) (iii) The products and/or services that the applicant can supply as a subcontractor (5) Time Limit of Acceptance of the Offers for Supply of Information and for Declaration of the Intention of Subcontracting; 3:00p.m., September 2, 1996 (This time limit also applied to mailed offers. (6) Language To Be Used: Japanese or English. (218)

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