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88 -- LIVE ANIMALS SOL DL70653 DUE 090396 POC Contact Dee Lunney, Contracting Officer, 919-541-0387 The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences intends to exercise the option for the purchase of Big Blue Transgeneic Mice and Rats from Stratagene. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. There is no solicitation package. (0228)

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