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70 -- MAINTENANCE OF BELL ATLANTIC ALPHA AND NUMERIC PAGERS SOL IN98P-4 DUE 122997 POC Arneen Dozier,Procurement Specialist (202) 707-0406 WEB: The Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov. E-MAIL: The Library of Congress, adoz@loc.gov. The Library of Congress intends to renew its maintenance contract with Bell Atlantic Paging, 11540 G Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. Currently, the Library's Alpha and Numeric display pagers operate on a proprietary frequency at 152.840Mhz and the Library-owned Bell Atlantic pagers operate only on this frequency. FCC regulations may prohibit other vendors from operating on this particular frequency. Due to poor pager reception in some areas within Library buildings, tests have been conducted and resulted in the installation of a Bell Atlantic transmitter to insure proper pager function. Interested firms have 15 days from the publication of this synopsis to submit in writing to the identified point of contact, their qualifications/capabilities. Such qualifications/capabilities will be used solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. Responses received after 15 days or without the required information will be considered nonresponsive to the synopsis and will not be considered. A determination by the Government to not compete this proposed effort on a full and open competitive basis based upon responses to this notice is solely with the discretion of the Government. (0339)

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