USAID, Regional Economic Development Services Offices for East and Southern Africa, Unit 4102, APO AE 09831-4102

R -- AIDS, POPULATION AND HEALTH INTEGRATED ASSISTANCE (APHIA) SOL RFP 623-96-P-002 POC Sharon Halvosa, Internet Address, Shalvosa@usaid.gov, Telephone: 011- 254-2-751613, Fax No. 254-2-743204, Contracting Officer, Francis Donovan, REDSO/ESA Nairobi, Kenya. The United States Agency for International Development Mission to Kenya plans to issue an RFP which will lead to the award of a follow-on contract to provide technical assistance to strengthen the capacity of the Kenyan Ministry of Health (MOH) to more effectively implement Kenya's national health care financing program. This will be a performance based contract funded under a new bilateral project and will build upon experience gained under the ongoing Kenya health care financing project. The contractor will establish an in-country technical assistance team, resident at the MOH health care financing secretariat, to help strengthen the public sector health care financing program and increase private, non-governmental capacity to better meet the health and family planning needs in Kenya. The contract shall be designed to directly support the ojectives and activities identified under the USAID Aids, Population and Health Integrated Assistance (APHIA) project. Upon Agency approval and the availability of funds, the contractor will work with the designated organizations to set up operations. The life of contract will be financed at a level of either $5 million or $10 million, depending on USAID/Kenya's funding levels. The duration of the contract is expected to be no more than five years. USAID encourages the participation to the maximum extent possible of 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) in accordance with part 19 of the FAR and part 726 of the AIDAR. 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. The RFP issuing date is expected to be no earlier than 15 days after publication of this notice. 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 Gopher address is GOPHER.INFO.USAID.GOV. Select USAID PROCUREMENT AND BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES from the gopher menu. The RFP text, once issued, 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/623002/623002.rfp. 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 solicitation document will be sent to you on a 3.5 Inch diskette using wordperfect 5.2, unless you ask specifically for a hard copy. Requests for the solicitation document may be sent to REDSO/ESA by mail, telex or facsimile, or downloaded through INTERNET (but see above). Requests must include a point of contact and the exact mailing address. We do not assume responsibility for verifying the requestor's address. (0045)

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