U.S. Agency for International Development, Office of Procurement, M/OP/ENI/EPE, Room 1404, SA-14, Washington, D.C. 20523-1415, Attn: Amy Heinen

R -- HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE FUNDED UNDER HOUSING SECTOR ASSISTANCE PROJECT (110-0034) SOL OP/ENI/EPE-95-01 DUE 042495 POC Contract Specialist, Amy Heinen, 703/875-1588 The Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking proposals to provide for research, training, and technical and advisory services related to housing & urban development programs in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe in support of the Eastern European Regional Housing Sector Assistance Project. The CPFF contract will have a five year period of performance, for a total of up to 1000 person months of effort. The primary components of the Work Scope will be to provide services as may be required under Requests for Services (RFSs), issued by USAID, in the areas of Housing Finance, Municipal Finance, and Private Sector Development. The contractor will be required to field teams which include individuals having a broad variety of experience, both practical and conceptual in the subject matter indicated. Efforts under the area of Housing Finance include: development of market-based finance for housing, privatization of publicly-owned housing strategies, determination of roles of private, NGO, and public financial institutions, privatization systems, land pricing and appraisal, national housing policy related to housing finance and ownership reform, capital markets, management and operations of housing finance and real estate institutions, mortgage and construction lending and finance, subsidy costs and targeting management, maintenance and pricing of rental housing, and social safety net for lower-income families issues. Efforts under the area of Municipal Finance include: evaluations of municipal resource base, municipal revenue growth, municipal planning and budgeting, administrative and financial management, expenditure structure streamlining, municipal services/infrastructure improvements and expenditures, policies, procedures, management of municipal assets, privatization of municipal services, municipal capital investment portfolios, municipal financial administration of human and capital resources, municipal economic and social investment needs and priorities, long term financing systems for municipalities, social safety net programs, municipal services pricing policies, 1ocal consensus building, and citizen participation in local government decision-making. Efforts under the area of Private Sector Development include: policy and regulatory framework related to private sector developers, contractors, and realtors, private sector housing production and land markets, constraints related to private sector housing production expansion, evaluation of construction technology and building systems, private land market mechanisms, contracting and sales procedures, bidding and procurement and competitive processes, licensing and certification, bonding and insurance, approvals, building standards and inspection procedures, role of construction trades unions and training institutions in shelter delivery, privatization of state enterprises in housing construction, business management practices, and policy, institutional or technical issues of the construction industry and real estate development business. Proposals will be evaluated with selection based on the proposal(s) that are most advantageous to the Government, considering the technical and cost factors stated in the evaluation criteria of the RFP. Further instructions regarding technical and cost proposals will be in the RFP. USAID encourages the participation to the maximum extent possible of U.S. entities that are small business concerns; Disadvantaged Enterprises, including women-owned concerns, historically Black colleges and universities; U.S. colleges and universities with more than 40 percent Hispanic American students; and U.S. private voluntary organizations controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, including women in accordance with Part 19 of the FAR and Part 726 of the AIDAR. It is anticipated that the prime contractor will make maximum practicable use of such entities; subcontracting plans should be included in proposals submitted. All requests for RFP No. OP/ENI/EPE-95-01 must be made in writing addressed to: U.S. Agency for International Development, M/OP/ENI/EPE, Room 1404, SA-14, Washington, D.C. 20523-1415, Attn: Amy Heinen. All requests must include four self-addressed mailing labels. The RFP will be mailed via U.S. Postal Service on or about March 24, 1995. Limited copies of the RFP shall be made available for pick up/walk-in no earlier than March 24, 1995. Due to labor shortage request for receipt of the RFP via courier will not be honored. Only one request for the RFP per organization will be honored. This CBD notice can be viewed and downloaded using the Agency Gopher. The RFP can be downloaded from the Agency Gopher. The Gopher address is GOPHER.INFO.USAID.GOV. Select USAID Procurement and Business Opportunities from the Gopher menu. The CBD notice and the RFP text can be downloaded via Anonymous File Transfer Protocol (FTP). The FTP address is FTP.INFO.USAID.GOV. Look under the following directory for the RFP (After March 24, 1995): pub/OP/RFP/EPE501.rfp. Receipt of this RFP through internet must be confirmed by written (fax or mail) notification to the contact person noted above. It is the responsibility of the recipient of this solicitation document to ensure that it has been received from Internet in its entirety and USAID bears no responsibility for data errors resulting from transmission or conversion processes. Questions should be directed to Amy Heinen, Contract Specialist, U.S. Agency for International Development, M/OP/ENI/EPE, Room 1404, SA-14, Washington, D.C. 20523-1415, (Phone 703-875-1588).AIDWASH (0053)

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