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66 -- DICING SAW SOL RFQ-BF0817 DUE 082498 POC Priscilla O. Waltner, TEL. (617) 495-7401, FAX (617) 496-7957, email: pwaltner@cfa.harvard.edu This Request for Quotation is being conducted under Simplified Acquisition Procedures. On a sole source basis, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory intends to issue a purchase order to Disco Hi-Tec America of Salem, New Hampshire for a DISCO, Dicing Saw, Model DAD321. The dicing saw will be used in the field of radio science to dice superconducting mixing chips on quartz substrate to an accuracy of better than 3 mico -- meters. No written solicitation will be issued for this requirement. Anticipated award date is 24 August 1998. Posted 08/11/98 (I-SN235599). (0223)

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