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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hello Colleagues,</span><br>
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<div><span style="font-size:12pt">The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Department of Paleobiology is seeking
</span><span style="font-size:12pt"><b>five (5) independent contractors to pack, stage, move, and organize fossil collections and associated material</b></span><span style="font-size:12pt"> within and between NMNH facilities in support of the Paleobiology Collections
Defragmentation Project. The contract period is for 12 months with options to extend. </span><br>
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<div><span style="font-size:12pt">The Paleo Collections Defragmentation Project will implement a decades overdue, long-term comprehensive physical curation strategy. The project will resolve pervasive physical organization deficiencies that limit the collections’ accessibility
and care. The project ensures the collections are out of imminent risk due to below-grade storage and will allow a physical organization to be realized among the near 11,000 collection cabinets distributed among three separate facilities. </span><br>
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<div><span style="font-size:12pt">Qualified individuals are invited to review the attached Request for Quotes (RFQ) and Statement of Work (SOW) for specifics. Details on what to include in the quote package and how to submit it are available in the RFQ.</span><br>
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<div><span style="font-size:12pt"><b>Responses are due Friday, September 17th, 12pm EST.</b></span><span style="font-size:12pt"> Applicants should register as a federal contractor in the </span><a href="https://sam.gov/" title="https://sam.gov/"><span style="font-size:12pt">System
for Award Management (SAM)</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt"> concurrently to responding to the RFQ. </span><br>
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<div><span style="font-size:12pt; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">Please forward this announcement to any qualified candidates who might be interested. Feel free to contact me if there are any questions.</span><br>
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<div><span style="font-size:12pt">Thank you,</span><br>
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<div><span style="font-size:12pt">Kathy Hollis</span></div>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:10pt">Paleobiology Collections Manager</span></div>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:10pt">Department of Paleobiology</span></div>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:10pt">w 202.633.1357 c 330.634.6505 hollisk@si.edu</span></div>
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<i></i><span style="font-size:10pt"><i>While the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History exhibition spaces partially opened to the public on June 18th, our collections remain closed to all visiting researchers, and the museum’s COVID-19 loan moratorium
remains in effect. Please check the Paleobiology website for the current operating status for collections activities
</i></span><i><a href="https://naturalhistory.si.edu/research/paleobiology" id="LPlnk171163"><span style="font-size:10pt">https://naturalhistory.si.edu/research/paleobiology</span></a></i></div>
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