FAO Branch, Division A, Office of Procurement, Room 1535, SA- 14, USAID, Washington, D. C. 20523-1428

U -- GLOBAL TRAINING FOR DEVELOPMENT (GTD) SOL OP/RFP/AFAO601 DUE 041996 POC Contact Sherry Harless, 703-875-1093 (email: SHarless@USAID.GOV)/Contracting Officer Rosella Marshall, 703- 875-1132 The purpose of this procurement is to obtain technical services to USAID Missions and USAID/W Bureaus which include providing an integrated package of participant trainee support services, U.S. or third country placement, program monitoring and administrative support and technical assistance. USAID anticipates award of up to five (5) indefinite quantity contracts (IQCs). Each contract will be for a three-year period with two one-year option periods. One contract award will be set-aside for small business. The applicable SIC Code for this procurement is 8748. The small business size standard is $5 million. Offerors must specify whether they are proposing under the full and open competition or the small business set-aside. The request for proposals will be issued o/a 23 February 1996. Closing date will be o/a 19 April 1996. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered by the Agency. To help identify potential partners and subcontractors, a list of all organizations requesting a copy of the solicitation will be attached to the solicitation document. Necessarily, the list will contain the names of only those organizations known prior to the issuance of the solicitation document. Offerors are encouraged to include in their offers and to use to the maximum extent practicable small businesses, small disadvantaged businesses, women-owned businesses, and disadvantaged enterprises. The preferred method of distribution of USAID procurement information is via the Internet or by request of a solicitation on a 3.5'' floppy disk (WordPerfect 5.1/5.2 format). 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. From there, choose the heading USAID PROCUREMENTS and then DOWNLOAD AVAILABLE USAID SOLICITATIONS. The RFP can be downloaded via Anonymous File Transfer Protocol (FTP). The FTP address is FTP.INFO.USAID.GOV. Logon using the user identification ''anonymous'' and the password is your e-mail address. Look under the following directory for the RFP: pub/OP/RFP/FAO601/fao601.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 by Internet in its entirety and USAID bears no responsibility for data errors resulting from transmission or conversion processes. This solicitation will not be issued in hard copy. Requestors should specify whether they will download from Internet or require a diskette. All requests must be accompanied by three self-addressed self-adhesive mailing labels to be used in the event any RFP amendments need to be issued. The Internet coordinator is Michael Inguillo. He can be reached at (703) 875- 1116. (0033)

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