Research & Development Center, Commanding Officer, U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center, Avery Point, Gorton, CT 06340-6096

89 -- BIODEGRADABLE ORANGES SOL DTCG32-99-SS0001 DUE 111398 POC Susan Stevens, Contracting Officer, 860-441-2665 E-MAIL: Contracting Officer, sstevens@rdc.uscg.mil. The U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center seeks to identify responsible sources and obtain information inregard to availability of commercially available biodegradable oranges. Seven (7) tons of biodegradable oranges (approximately 37,300 oranges) will be used as a target during oceanographic research exercises off the coast of Gaveston, Texas on or about Arpil of 1999. Oranges would be shipped to a located in Galveston Texas and must be prepared in one (1) ton containers for quick release by a ship (batch dump) into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Oranges to not have to be edible but they must float in seawater so that they can be observed by helicopter. Please submit correspondence on company letterhead along with any other descriptive information which includes: 1) Point of Contact; 2) Description; 3) estimated price ranges; 4) packaging options; 5) amount of time required from order placement to delivery. The USCG R&DC will not make any awards on the basis of this request for information. This is not a request for proposal, but for planning purposes only. Please mail, e-mail for fax information to Susan Stevens, Contracting Officer, USCG R&D Center 1082 Shennecossett Road, Groton, CT 06340-6096. Posted 10/28/98 (W-SN266142). (0301)

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