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B -- FAMILY PLANNING SERVICE EXPANSION AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT POC Contact Point, Jonathan B. Palmer, 703/875-1109, Contracting Officer, Thomas S. Bordone, 703/875-1410 The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) plans to negotiate, on a sole source basis, the continuation of an ongoing contract with The Population Council (non-profit), New York, New York, to provide operations research and technical assistance support in Asia and the Near East. The contract is one of three regional contracts under the Agency's project entitled ''Strategies for Improving Service Delivery'' (SISD) which began in 1984. The purpose of the contract is to continue providing USAID with facilities, materials, and personnel necessary to improve family planning in Asia and the Near East (ANE) through Operations Research (OR) and Technical Assistance (TA). These continuing services will be provided under a contract extension covering the period from July 26, 1995 until January 25, 1998. These services involve the development and implementation of operations research in family planning in Asia and the Near East, the provision of high level technical assistance to U.S. Missions, Ministries of Health and PVOs/NGOs, as well as institution building and strengthening of selected in-country research institutions. To accomplish these objectives in a 30 month period, the contractor must have established field offices, necessary host country approvals to operate, and an adequate number of professional and support staff in readiness to develop, implement and monitor operations research and technical assistance in the following USAID priority countries: India, Philippines, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Egypt and other countries in the region as required. Any other potential source desiring consideration must fully identify their capability to provide these services within 30 days of the publication of this notice. See Note 22. (AIDWASH) (0068)

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