Regional Contracts Office, USAID/Guatemala-CAP, Unit 3323, APO AA 34024

F -- OTHER NATURAL RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION SERVICES SOL RFP Guatemala 596-96-P-003 DUE 030696 Claudia M. Enriquez, Telephone (502-2) 320202 fax (502-2) 311506, Contracting Officer: Paula S. Miller. Contigent upon availability of funds, the United States Agency for International Development/Guatemala-Central American Programs (USAID/G-CAP), under the PROARCA Project (Proyecto Ambiental Regional para Centroamerica), is seeking proposals from qualified U.S. Organizations interested in implementing parts of this project. The project will support a number of activities designed to achieve improvements in environmental policy, analytical capability and decision making in Central America in the environmental policy, analytical capability and decision making in Central America in the environmental area. This support will be a critical element in USAID/G-CAP's effective regional stewardship of key natural resources strategic objective. A performance-based contract is anticipated which will include a contractor-managed small grants program. The estimate for performance of the work required falls within a range from $5,000,000 to $7,000,000. USAID encurages the participation to the maximum extent possible of Small Business Concerns, Small Disadvantaged Business Concerns, and Women-Owned Small Business Concerns in this activity as prime Contractors and Subcontractors in accordance with part 19 of the Federal Acquisitions Regulations. In this respect, it is anticipated that the prime contractor will make every reasonable effort to identify and make maximum practicable use of such concerns. All selection evaluation criteria being found equal, the participation of such concerns may become a determining factor for selection. Subcontracting with Gray Amendment entities: Not less than 10 percent of the total value of the contract will have to be subcontracted to Gray Amendment entities (U.S. socially and economically disadvantaged, including women-owned, businesses; historically Black colleges and universities; U.S. colleges and universities with at least 40 percent Hispanic American students; and U.S. private voluntary organizations controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, including women.) To help identify potential subcontractors, a list of allorganizations requesting a copy of the solicitation will be sent with each solicitation document. Organizations are encouraged to indicate whether they are Gray Amendment entities when requesting the solicitation and may indicate whether they do not wish to be included on the list. By providing the list, AID does not endorse the listed organization known prior to the issuance of the solicitation document. Proposals shall include plans reflecting no less than 10 percent subcontracting with the above-defined entities. Proposals not including such plans will be considered to be non-responsive. No telegraphic or fax porposals will be accepted. Geographic Code is 000. RFP 596-96-P-003 may be requested from Regional Contracts Office, USAID/G-CAP Unit 3323, APO AA 34024, Fax (502-2) 311506 or 311151, attention Claudia M. Enriquez. 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/96003/96003.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 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. (0333)

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