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Motorola Inc., U.S. Federal Government Markets Division, Hanover, Md., was awarded on May 30, 2003, a contract for the purchase, delivery and distribution of 3,000 portable and vehicular-mounted mobile radios, base stations, repeaters and towers, spare parts and installation to support the Baghdad Police Force.


Motorola Inc., U.S. Federal Government Markets Division, Hanover, Md., was awarded on May 30, 2003, a contract for the purchase, delivery and distribution of 3,000 portable and vehicular-mounted mobile radios, base stations, repeaters and towers, spare parts Spare parts, also referred to as Service Parts is a term used to indicate extra parts available and in proximity to the mechanical item, such as a automobile, boat, engine, for which they might be used.

Spare parts are also called “spares.
 and installation to support the Baghdad Police Force. The contract was awarded on a firm-fixed-price basis for a 120-day period. The total price for this contract is $15,820,589. This procurement The fancy word for "purchasing." The procurement department within an organization manages all the major purchases.  was conducted as a competition between vendors holding federal supply schedules offering radios and other telecommunications equipment/services. The request for quotation A Request for Quotation (referred to as RFQ) is a standard business process whose purpose is to invite suppliers into a bidding process to bid on specific products and/or services.

An RFQ typically involves more than the price per item.
 was published using eBuy, with nine offerors specifically identified to be contacted and with the ability of other schedule holders to respond to the request for quotation. The Defense Information Systems Agency, Acquisition, Logistics and Facilities Directorate, Network Services and Operations Division, Falls Church Falls Church, independent city (1990 pop. 9,578), NE Va., a residential suburb of Washington, D.C.; inc. as a town 1875, as a city 1948. There is diverse light manufacturing, including telecommunications equipment. , Va., is the contracting activity (DCA (1) (Document Content Architecture) IBM file formats for text documents. DCA/RFT (Revisable-Form Text) is the primary format and can be edited. DCA/FFT (Final-Form Text) has been formatted for a particular output device and cannot be changed. 100-03-P-4397).
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Publication:EDP Weekly's IT Monitor
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jun 23, 2003
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