Proposed Collection; Comment Request Entitled Bid/Offer Acceptance Period

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

[OMB Control No. 9000-0044]

Proposed Collection; Comment Request Entitled Bid/Offer

Acceptance Period

AGENCIES: Department of Defense (DOD), General Services Administration

(GSA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

ACTION: Notice of request for public comments regarding an extension to

an existing OMB clearance.

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SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995

(44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)

Secretariat will be submitting to the Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) a request to review and approve an extension of a currently

approved information collection requirement concerning Bid/Offer

Acceptance Period. The clearance currently expires on April 30, 1999.

DATES: Comments may be submitted on or before March 1, 1999.

ADDRESSES: Comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect

of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing

this burden, should be submitted to: FAR Desk Officer, OMB, Room 10102,

NEOB, Washington, DC 20503, and a copy to the General Services

Administration, FAR Secretariat (MVRS), 1800 F Street, NW, Room 4035,

Washington, DC 20405. Please cite OMB Control No. 9000-0044, Bid/Offer

Acceptance Period, in all correspondence.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Ralph DeStefano, Federal Acquisition Policy Division, GSA (202) 501-

1758.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

A. Purpose

Bid acceptance period is the period of time from receipt of bids

that is available to the Government to award the contract. This

acceptance period is normally established by the Government. However,

the bidder may establish a longer acceptance period than the minimum

acceptance period set by the Government by filling in the blank. There

are instances when the Government is unable to award a contract within

the acceptance period due to unforeseen complications. Rather than

incur the costly expense of readvertising, the Government requests the

bidders to extend their bids for a longer period of time.

These data are placed with the respective bids and placed in the

contract file to become a matter of record.

B. Annual Reporting Burden

Public reporting burden for this collection of information is

estimated to average 1 minute per completion, including the time for

reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and

maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the

collection of information.

The annual reporting burden is estimated as follows: Respondents,

3,220; responses per respondent, 40; total annual responses, 128,800;

preparation hours per response, .017; and total response burden hours,

2,190.

OBTAINING COPIES OF PROPOSALS: Requester may obtain a copy of the

justification from the General Services Administration, FAR Secretariat

(MVRS), Room 4035, 1800 F Street, NW, Washington, DC 20405, telephone

(202) 208-7312. Please cite OMB Control No. 9000-0044, Bid/Offer

Acceptance Period, in all correspondence.

Dated: December 22, 1998.

Victoria E. Moss,

Acting Director, Federal Acquisition Policy Division.

[FR Doc. 98-34370 Filed 12-29-98; 8:45 am]

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