SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Indoor Residual Spraying
- Notice Date
- 3/9/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 561710
— Exterminating and Pest Control Services
- Contracting Office
- Agency for International Development, Washington D.C., USAID/Washington, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Room 7.10-006, Washington, DC, 20523
- ZIP Code
- 20523
- Solicitation Number
- M-OAA-GH-HSR-06-837
- Response Due
- 4/18/2006
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Bureau of Global Health, is requesting expressions of interest (EEI) from capable firms willing to provide indoor residual spraying (IRS) services in Africa. It is anticipated that the Request for Proposals (RFP) for this procurement will be issued by the Office of Acquisition and Assistance (M/OAA), USAID, within a few weeks of the publication of this notice. The proposed procurement will comprise (1) full and open competition; and (2) small business set-aside. All firms expressing interests in this procurement shall indicate their status, and for small and disadvantaged minority firms only, please indicate whether you intend to compete in the set-aside or full and open competition. Also, in order to ensure that offerors have access to the widest range of small business subcontractors, USAID strongly encourages offerors to use the Subnet link under www.fedbizopps.gov. M/OAA intends to award five-year (5-year) multiple indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contracts resulting from the RFP, subject to USAID?s option to renew. Concurrently with the award of the IRS contract, M/OAA intends to award the first task order to one of multiple awardees. The expected maximum shared ceiling amount for this IQC is $150 million. The Statement of Work (SOW) is as follows: (A) BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE: Recognizing the urgent need for a dramatic scaling-up of the effort against malaria, on June 30, 2005, President George W. Bush announced a new U.S. Government Malaria Initiative of $1.2 billion over the next five years. This new initiative, beginning with $30 million in bilateral funding in FY 06 and increasing each year to a peak of $500 million through FY 10, will be provided to combat the disease. The Presidential Malaria Initiative (PMI) is intended to accelerate delivery of a package of proven preventive and curative interventions in over 15 to-be-named high-burden African countries with a total population of 175 million. The program is expected to reduce malaria deaths by fifty percent (50%) by achieving eighty-five percent (85%) coverage of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs), prevention with insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) and indoor residual spraying (IRS), and intermittent preventive treatment for pregnant women (IPT). (B) PURPOSE: The purpose of the IQC is to establish a world-wide procurement mechanism to support the PMI, as well as USAID Missions and Bureaus with malaria programs outside the PMI countries, and to implement USAID?s goal of reducing the burden of malaria in Africa. (C) OBJECTIVES: (1) To prepare and execute logistical plans for IRS related commodity procurement and distribution, including the purchase, storage and handling of sprayers, insecticides and any other supplies required to carry out the proposed IRS operations in the identified African countries; (2) To provide operational management support (i.e. field supervision, operations planning, day-to-day implementation management) to IRS activities, primarily in the PMI focus countries but also in other countries where USAID supports malaria programs;(3) Ensure compliance with all US Government environmental regulations, including the conduct of Environmental Impact Assessments in accordance with 22 CFR 216; (4) Furnish expert short- and long-term technical assistance for IRS activities; and (5) Organize skills training for capacity development and on-going supervision and monitoring for safe and effective spraying in accordance with World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. (D) SCOPE OF SERVICES: Pursuant to these goals, the contractor shall provide malaria vector control services to USAID Missions, the USAID/Washington Global Health Bureau, and other USAID Bureaus and operating units; provide, as requested by USAID Missions and other operating units, IRS related commodities procurement and logistical services; plan, organize, manage and implement IRS programs; conduct USAID Mission requested host-country environmental impact assessments (when required); provide long- and short-term technical assistance; and provide advisory and monitoring services to host country institutions (both governmental and non-governmental) to implement effective IRS programs. Task orders issued by the requesting USAID operating unit will define the precise specifications and activity requirements. Activity requirements may include determining insecticide choice, insecticide storage, human resource requirements, logistical needs, training, monitoring, evaluation, and other activities required for effective IRS programs. (E) CONTRACT MANAGEMENT: The cognizant technical office that shall manage the proposed IQC will be the Global Health Bureau, USAID Washington, D.C. All EEIs requesting the above RFP shall be in writing and be electronically directed to Benjamin Duodu, Contract Specialist, M/OAA/GH/OHA, through bduodu@usaid.gov. Telephonic or fax EEIs shall not be accepted. END OF SOW. Contracting Officer: Bruce Baltas, Team Leader, M/OAA/GH/HSR
- Place of Performance
- Address: Kenya and Mozambique
- Country: Kenya and Mozambique
- Country: Kenya and Mozambique
- Record
- SN01002834-W 20060311/060309211554 (fbodaily.com)
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