Regional Contracting Office, U.S. Agency for International Development, American Embassy, Rabat, PSC 74 Box 022, APO AE 09718, ATTN: Mary Reynolds, Contracting Officer

R -- URBAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES PROJECT (608-0221) SOL Morocco 95-P-003 DUE 080495 POC Contact Mary Reynolds, USAID/Morocco Contracting Officer Morocco Telephone No. 212-776-2265, Fax No. 212-770-7930, Telex No. 31005M, Internet address: mreynolds@usaid.gov The U.S. Agency for International Development, Morocco, plans to award a completion-type contract for four years to provide technical assistance, training, various studies and commodity procurement in support of its Urban & Environmental Services Project. The contractor will provide an expatriate chief of party (36 p/m), and local hire urban planning/management specialist (45 p/m), and support staff; up to 100 p/m of short-term technical assistance (expatriate and Moroccan) on subjects including to urban environment, shelter, urban planning, housing finance; short-term training (approx. budget $600,000); and commodity procurement (approx $1 million). The contract is in support of a Housing Guaranty program relating to the upgrading of shelter conditions of the urban poor, increasing the capacity of key Moroccan institutions and improving environmental conditions in poor urban areas. USAID encourages the participation to the maximum extent possible of small business concerns, small disadvantaged businesses, and women-owned small businesses in this activity as contractors or subcontractors. In addition, prime contractors are required to set aside no less than ten (10) percent of the total value of the award for subcontracts with Gray amendment entities firms including women-owned, historically black colleges and universities, U.S. colleges and universities with forty (40) percent or more Hispanic American students, and minority private voluntary organizations. It is anticipated that the prime contractor will make maximum use of these concerns. All other selection criteria being found equal, the participation of such concerns may become a determining factor for selection. Issuing date is anticipated to be o/a 4 June 1995 and closing date will be on 4 August 1995. This CBD notice can be viewed and downloaded using the Agency Gopher. The RFP, 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 RFP text can be downloaded via Anonymous File Transfer Protocal (FTP). The FTP address is FTP.INFO.USAID.GOV. Logon using the user identification of ''anonymous'' and the password is your e-mail address. Look under the following director for the RFP: pub/OP/RFP/Maroc953. Receipt of this RFP through INTERNET must be confirmed by written notification to the contact person 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. The soliciation document will be sent to you on a 3.5 inch diskette using Wordperfect 5.2, unless you ask for a hard copy with your request. Request for the solicitation document may be sent to USAID/Morocco by mail, telex or facsimile. The request must include a point of contact and the exact mailing address of the requestor. We do not assume responsibility of verifying the requestor's address. (0143)

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