Minerals Management Service, Box 25165, Mail Stop 2730, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225-0165

99 -- GEOLOGICAL & GEOPHYSICAL STATE DATA SOL 9-8100-0003 POC Mary A. Haden, 303-275-7376, Contracting Officer The Minerals Management Service intends to award a contract to Western Atlas International, Inc., P.O. Box 2469, Houston, Texas 77252-2469, utilizing other than full and open competition for the purchase of approximately 33.3994 square km. of ocean bottom cable 3-D speculative data. The subject data is within the State of Alaska jurisdiction and in conjunction with OCS data acquired under OCS Permit No. 98-05. No solicitation is available for this sole source acquisition. Authority for this non-competitive acquisition is found under 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1). See number Notes 22 and 26. Posted 05/27/99 (W-SN336809). (0147)

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