USAID/Dhaka, Bangladesh; Dept. of State, Washington, D.C. 20521-6120

R -- BANGLADESH DEMOCRACY PROGRAM SOL RFA-388-95-A-001 DUE 062295 Submit written requests for copy of RFA to Carrie M. Williams, USAID-ANE/ORA/O; Room 3313-A N.S.; 2201 C Street N.W.; Washington D.C. 20523-0087. Questions about RFA contact Alvera Sweet, USAID, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Phone No. 880-2-884700, Internet: ASweet@usaid.gov or Fax No. 880-2-883-648. The USAID/Bangladesh seeks a qualified private and voluntary organization or cooperative, hereinafter referred to as ''partner'', to design and implement a democracy program in Bangladesh. USAID, as part of its reengineering effort, has developed an experimental model for designing new programs which incorporates the Agency's four core values - customer focus, teamwork, empowerment andaccountability, and managing for results. USAID is in the process of identifying the democracy needs of its ultimate customers, i.e., the socially and economically deprived, in Bangladesh. These needs will be set forth in the RFA. USAID will select a partner(s) to join a team to identify the desired results of a democracy program, develop strategic and tactical approaches, and implement activities to achieve the desired democratic results. The team will be composed of the selected partner, representatives from USAID, and possibly, representatives from the government of Bangladesh. During design the partner will take the lead role in interacting with the ultimate customers and will develop customer service plans which will be used, in part, to assess the partners's performance during implementation. During the design phase, USAID will develop a service plan defining its relationships with and responsibilities to its partner. USAID has a strong preference for a single award to one partner for this program. However USAID encourages partners to include, to the extent possible, other U.S. and non U.S. organizations involved in democracy programs during the partner's design and/or implementation of its democracy program in Bangladesh. USAID anticipates that there will be an initial award to cover expenses in developing the activities/results packages. USAID will amend the final award several months later for a program not to exceed $5 million covering an implementation period of approximately five years commencing o/a October 1, 1995. A cooperative agreement format will be used. The selected partner should be prepared to commence development activities immediately upon signature of the initial award o/a mid July 1995. RFA will be available o/a May 22, 1995. This CBD notice can be viewed and downloaded using the Agency Gopher. The RFA, once issued, 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 RFA text can be downloaded via Anonymous File Transfer Protocol (FTP). The FTP address is FTP.INFO.USAID.GOV. Logon on using the user identification of ''anonymous'' and the password is your e-mail address. Look under the following directory for the RFA: PUB/OP/RFA/3889501. Receipt of the RFA through INTERNET must be confirmed by written notification to the contact person noted above. It is the responsibility of the recipient of this application 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. (0101)

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