This is a Notice of Intent to Award for commercial items. This announcement constitutes the only notice; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. The California National Guard intends to award a contract to Belleville Shoe Manufacturing Company for the purchase of 212 each pairs of model 340DES flight boots. Flight boots will be delivered in specified quantities to Mather California, Fresno California, Los Alamitos California, and Stockton California. A detailed list of boot sizes and quantities will be made available upon request. To be considered for award, offers of equal products, including equal products of the brand name manufacturer must meet the salient physical, functional, and performance characteristics specified in this solicitation. Vendors must clearly identify the item by brand name, if any, and by make and model number. Vendors must also include descriptive literature such as illustrations, drawings, or a clear reference to previously furnished descriptive data or information available to the Contracting Officer and must cleary describe any modifications the offeror plans to make in a product to make it conform to the solicitation requirements. Vendors must mark any descriptive material to clearly show the modification. The Contracting Officer will evaluate equal products on the basis of information furnished by the offeror or identified in the offer and reasonably available to the Contracting Officer. The Contracting Officer is not responsible for obtaining any information not identified in the offer. Unless the offeror clearly indicates in his or her offer that the product being offered is an equal product, the offeror shall provide the brand name product referenced in the solicitation. All vendors must be registered in the Central Contractors Registration (CCR). Quotes are due no later than February 5, 2009 before 1:00pm PST. Quotes may be submitted via fax to 805-594-6348 or by e-mail to [email protected]. Point of contact for this solicitation is SGT Jennifer Anderson at 805-594-6295.

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