Allen Eisenberg, Regional Contracting Officer, USAID/Ecuador, Unit 5330, APO AA 34039 or USAID/Peru, Unit 3760, APO AA 34031

38 -- HEAVY ROAD EQUIPMENT - ALTERNATIVE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT SOL 527-96-P-001 (PERU) DUE 113095 POC Contact: Cecilia Yaez, USAID/Peru, International Phone 51- 14/333-200 Ext. 746, Lima, Peru. Contracting Officer: Allen Eisenberg, Regional Contracting Officer, USAID/Ecuador, International Phone 593-2-521-100 Ext. 451 or Fax No. 593-2-500- 502, Quito, Ecuador USAID/Peru intends to award a contract for the following equipment: (1) Two 1996 track type tractor-bulldozers, (2) Three 1996 Front loaders with wheels (160 HP), (3) Three 1996 Standard Road Graders (200 HP), (4) Three 1996 Road rollers w/vibrating drum (for ground material), (5) Six Electric concrete vibrators, (6) Six Concrete mixers, (7) Nine 1996 Dump Trucks, (8) Three 1996 Water trucks (2,000 Gal, 170 HP), (9) Three 1996 Trucks (5 ton, 170 HP), (10) Three 1996 Pick-up trucks (2 MT), (11) Three Electric generators, (12) Three Motor pumps (5HP) (2 inches), (13) spare parts for all the above mentioned equipment for an approximate two years. Issuance date of the RFP will be at least twenty days after publication of this synopsis. Offers from prospective offerors will be due forty-five (45) days thereafter. All requests for RFPs must annotate the RFP number. RFPs may be requested via APO at the above mentioned USAID/Peru APO address or via Fax at 51-14-337034. 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 ins GOPHER.INFOR.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 on 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/PERU9601/peru9601.rfp. Receipt of this RFP through INTERNET must be confirmed by written notification to the contact person noted above. It is the responsibility of the offeror of this offer 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. (0292)

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