Agency for International Development, Administrative Purchasing Division, Room 1600E, SA-14, Washington, D.C. 20523-1409

R -- PROFESSIONAL, ADMINISTRATIVE AND MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SERVICES SOL RFQ96 AID-0005 DUE 032096 POC POC Beverly Jones, (703) 875-1575, Contracting Officer, Colin Bradley (703) 875-1726. In accordance with requirements set forth in Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) 5.201, the U.S. Agency for International Development(USAID) is seeking sources to provide professional quality procurement support necessary to implement an aggressive expansion of the Government-Wide Commercial Purchase Authorization Card Program(IMPAC)in both the domestic and worldwide locations and to provide general administrative support during high volume procurement processing periods. Support to the IMPAC program will include documentation verification and review, file generation & maintenance, statistics gathering, account establishment & review, and report preparation. Contractor staff personnel assigned shall show demonstrated experience in project management for government procurement related programs and IMPAC program management, personnel shall be computer literate and demonstrate ability to adapt to the current B450 purchasing data system and Document Generation System used by the agency, demonstrated ability to adapt to new systems being employed and rapidly occurring changes involved during intense installation/training periods, and demonstrated experience in application of the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994. The services will be required throughout the period of 01 April 1996 through 31 December 1996. The effort involved is totally non-personal services and the contractor shall maintain management and supervisory control over personnel assigned to perform the requirements of this order. This effort is 100% reserved for small business concerns. All small business with capability of meeting the requirements are invited to submit a brief capabilities statement documenting past performance information on contracts on-going or completed relevant to the type of services being solicited as part of this action. All submittals shall be accompanied by proposed labor categories anticipated to fulfill the requirements of the order along with current labor rate information for each proposed category. Weight shall be given in the selection process primarily to documented experience and past performance, as well as the labor categories and rate structure proposed. All written responses with the required capability statement, labor categories, and rate information are due no later than 20 March 1996. ''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 RFQ, 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 RFQ can also 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 RFQ: pub/OP/RFQ/960005/960005.rfq. Receipt of this RFQ 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.'' Responses received after that date or without the required information shall be considered non-responsive and will not be considered. Request for solicitation package must be submitted in writing and faxed to (703) 875-1870, Attn: Beverly Jones. Telephone requests will not be honored. All requests should indicate business size. The Standard Industrial Code (SIC) is 8741. (0058)

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