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Solicitation: AG-3151-S-11-0025 Amendment 0001 Tobacco Assessment and Payment System (TAPS)

Due to time constraints, section L.2.1 of solicitation AG-3151-S-11-0025 is amended to read as follows:

L.2.1 General Instructions to Offerors

Proposals submitted in response to this RFP shall be formatted in accordance with the instructions provided in this section. Vendors shall furnish proposals in electronic and paper versions. The electronic version shall be submitted via email as two separate attachments, 1 Technical Proposal including Executive Summary and Past Performance, and 1 Price Proposal, to be received by the date and time stated below for submission of proposals.

Hard copies of the proposals shall be submitted along with two separated CD’s identified as Price Proposal and Technical Proposal, to arrive no later than 48 hours of the date and time stated below for the arrival of the emailed electronic submissions. All compliant and responsive email offers received by the date and time set forth below will be considered.

Paper proposals shall be separately bound volumes in the quantities specified below. The total page count for all volumes of the proposal (including any and all pages, but excluding page count for resumes) should not exceed 50 pages. Proposals exceeding the number of pages will be removed from consideration.

· Executive Summary (Original plus 3 copies)

· Technical Volume (Original plus 3 copies)

· Past Performance (Original plus 3 copies)

· Price Volume (Original plus 3 copies)

Electronic versions of the Offeror’s proposal shall be submitted to Jeffrey.Mcrae@wdc.usda.gov by 10:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on July 25, 2011.

Paper versions of the Offeror’s proposal shall be delivered to the following address no later than 48 hours after the time set forth for electronic version submissions:

Jeffrey McRae

USDA/FSA/AMD/COB

Contractor Support Staff

355 E ST, SW

10TH FLOOR

WASHINGTON, DC 20024

This request for proposal does not commit the Government to pay any costs incurred in the submission of any proposal or in making necessary studies for the preparation thereof. Nor does it commit the Government to procure or contract for said services. The Contracting Officer is the only individual who can commit the Government to the expenditure of public funds in connection with this proposed procurement.

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