--Notice of intent to award a sole source purchase order to Midwest Research Institute.

Awarding to Midwest Research Institute. We believe Midwest Research Institute to be the only in the U.S. who currently has developed methodologies and standard operating procedures for processing evidentiary sample extracts with several agencies wit hin the US government that enable molecular analyses to be performed in the presence of inhibitory environmental contaminants for national security purposes. MRI also has a developed proprietary techniques for agencies within the US government to extract a nd remove inhibitory environmental contaminants from evidentiary material to enable molecular anaylyses to be performed for national purposes. If another company can provide this product for a two phase project in a short turn around time, please respond by email to [email protected] by close of business by 4:00 p.m. EST 5 July 2005. You must provide evidence as to reasons why your organization is a better choice for this request.