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R -- TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE COASTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT CRM PROJECT IN THE PHILIPPINES SOL USAID/Philippines, RFP No.492-95-013 DUE 072695 Contact MA. Rosario M. Arenas, Acquisition Specialist (Neil C. Edin is the Contracts Officer) USAID/Philippines Tel. No. (0632)522-4411 (Ext.3403), Fax No. (0632) 522-4337. USAID/Philippines is soliciting proposals from qualified U.S. or U.S. and Philippines institutions, firms or groups of institutions and/or firms to assist the implementation of the coastal resources management (CRM) project. The project will assist selected communities and their local governments to bring coastal resources along 3,000 KM of shoreline under sustainable management by the year 2002. This solicitation covers the first three years of a planned seven year community-based, coastal resources management (CB/CRM) project. It is an interdisciplinary approach that has evolved in the Philippines over the past decade and is now deemed ready for widespread use. It recognizes resource users as the actual day-to-day resources managers. Community self-help, combined with private sector oriented management, and the use of basic democratic processes are stressed. The strategy provides the flexibility to add new management approaches as they evolve and as communities become ready. Seventy-five percent of project resources will flow directly to coastal communities and their local governments, with the balance allocated for capacity building in national support agencies. The project will require cost effective application of community based management systems that can be sustained by local governments after project life. Business oriented management, training and methodologies as well as linkage development to the private sector, for identification of alternative enterprises, will form a critical base to project operations and must be threaded through all aspects of the program. Intensive multi-disciplinary training will be provided over project life for NGO and local government staff who will, by project end, have been deployed in about 300 municipalities to coach communities as they improve management practices. The expected output of the project by 1998 is that communities along 2500 KM of coastline (about 135 municipalities) will have initiated enhanced management and that communities along 350 KM of shoreline (about 15 municipalities) will be managing their coastal waters for sustainable harvests. Approximately half the area would be in multi-municipality sites fully supported by the project and half in similar sites supported in part contract covered by this solicitation will include: Management plans developed and development and being implemented by coastal communities along 2500 KM of coastlines; training of 360 site staff who will coach communities; the recovery by national agencies of at least 6,000 HA of mangrove area cleared but not properly used for fishpond purposes and the turnover of these areas to community groups for rehabilitation as mangrove forest; and coastal municipalities incorporating community-based management activities in their development plans. Another expected output is increased investment of both local and national governments in CRM activities. This could be evidenced by the provision of regular municipal budget allocations for personnel and/or operation supporting coastal resource protection and management by most participating municipal governments. Putting in places an equity mechanism in coastal resources is another expected output of the new initiative. To achieve this, local government will enact and implement appropriate regulatory ordinances and subject: request for publication of solicitation notice, contractor for the implementation of resources management (CRM) project in the Philippines. Develop enabling legal instruments. The project also expects to identify incentives for private business investment in coastal resources management and industry. Attainment of the output will be indicated by an increased collaboration between the national and local government in implementing appropriate policies and development of mechanisms that promotes partnership between the public and private sectors. The contractor will also provide assistance to USAID/Philippines Office of the Environment in designing and managing program linkages with the States of Hawaii and Florida, Silliman University and others in ecotourism development and the adaptation of marine biomedical and sea technologies, including activities such as marine pharmaceutical prospecting and production, as local export-oriented enterprises. Other special projects will focus on developing community awareness and commitment through organizations like the U.S. Coast Guard, Philippine Coast Guard and Auxiliary, Girl and Boy Scouts, and Rotary International. A business management orientation is expected in all aspects of the project. This will be a performance-based completion type contract. It is estimated that 559 person months of long and short term technical assistance required to achieve the targets. The contract period will be approximately 36 months. Completion will be determined by USAID/Philippines' final acceptance of the report submitted by the contractor detailing the accomplishment of the project's objectives. USAID encourages the participation, to the maximum extent possible, of small business concerns, and women-owned small business concerns in this activity as contractors or subcontrators in accordance with Part 19 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation. In this respect, it is anticipated that the contractor will make every reasonable effort to identify and make maximum practicable use of such concerns. All other selection evaluation criteria being found equal, participation of such concerns may determine selection. Contract services are anticipated to begin on or about October 1995. Not less than 10 percent of the total value on the contract will have to be subcontracted to disadvantaged enterprises (U.S. socially and economically disadvantaged, including women-owned businesses; historically Black colleges and universities; U.S. colleges and universities with more that 40 percent Hispanic American students; and US private voluntary organizations controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, including women.) To help identify potential subcontractors, a list of all organizations requesting a copy of the solicitation will be sent with each solicitation document. Organizations are encouraged to indicate whether they are disadvantaged when requesting the solicitation and may indicate that they do not wish to be included on the list. By providing the list, USAID does not endorse the listed organizations as being capable of carrying out the activity, nor does USAID verify the claimed status of the organizations. Necessarily, the list will contain the names of only those organizations known prior to the issuance of the solicitation document. Proposals shall include plans reflecting not less than 10 percent subcontracting with the above defined entities. Proposals not including such plans will be considered to be non-responsive. Contract services are anticipated to begin on or about October 1995. Detailed information about this solicitation is contained in the RFP documents which will be available on or about June 5, 1995. To obtain the RFP, send your request to the Office of Regional Procurement, USAID/Manila, APO AP 96440, or Office of Regional Procurement, USAID/Manila, RMC Bldg., 1680 Roxas Blvd, Manila, Philippines. Our telephone and fax numbers are (632) 522-4411 (ext. 3403) and (632) 522-4337, respectively. The estimated deadline for submission of proposal is July 26, 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 protocol (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 directory for the RFP: pub/OP/RFP/49295013. Receipt of the RFP through INTERNET must be confirmed by written notification to the contact person noted above. It is 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 date errors resulting from transmission or coversion processes. (0164)

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