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R -- TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE REQUIRED FOR THE AGRICULTURE POLICY REFORM PROJECT (APRP), REFORM DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION (RDI) SOL RFP NO. 263-95-P-071 POC Contact Points: Mr. James C. Athanas, Contracting Officer, or Mr. Ashraf E. Soos. Contact Points: Mr. James C. Athanas, Contracting Officer, or Mr. Ashraf E. Soos, USAID/Egypt, Tel. No. 011-02-02-357-3257/8, Telefax No. 011-2-02-356-2932, Internet addresses: JATHANAS@USAID.GOV. OR ASSOS@USAID.GOV. Correction: The advertisement for RFP No. 263-95-P-071 APRP/RDI originally appeared in the October 2, 1995 CBD, since that time, information has changed. The lead implementing agency for APRP will be the Ministry of Agriculture, in collaboration with other GOE ministries and the private sector. The program's implementing arm will be a Program Planning Committee (PPC), which will oversee all activities associated with the program. The PPC will be served by a Program Management Unit (PMU), which will perform operational, administrative and financial tasks in support of APRP. The contract for the PMU is anticipated to be awarded within one month from this advertisement. Three projectized technical assistance activities are envisioned in addition to the PMU: (1) Monitoring, verification and evaluation of policy reforms (MVE). The RFP for the MVE is being independently advertised. (2) Assistance in design and implementation of reforms (RDI) which this RFP is about, and (3) Medium-to-long-term research on food security problems. A Grant Agreement was already awarded in February 1996 for the latter activity. The RDI contractor will be required to provide long and short-term expertise for a Reform Design and Implementation Unit (RDI Unit) in areas such as agribusiness, privatization, marketing, resource economics, and public administration/institutional analysis. There will be no academic training and very limited procurement of material and equipment. The contract will be awarded initially for four (4) years with an option to extend for two (2) additional years. Prospective offerors may request RFP- 263-95-P-071, ''Technical Assistance for the Agriculture Policy Reform Project (APRP), Reform, Design and Implementation (RDI)'', in writing, from: Mr. James C. Athanas, Contracting Officer, USAID/Cairo, Unit 64902, APO AE 09839-4902. Courier Service requests should be sent to: James C. Athanas, Contracting Officer, U.S. Agency for International Development, 106 Kasr El Aini Street, Cairo Center Bldg., 6th Floor, Cairo, Egypt. Telephone requests will not be honored. Interested offerors who have already submitted letters of interest need not reapply. The RFP is anticipated to be issued no earlier than 15 days after the date of this advertisement. The RFP will be mailed to all interested offerors and will also be available on the InterNet. ''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 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/26395071/26395071.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 the INTERNET in its entirety and USAID bears no responsibility for data errors resulting from transmission or conversion processes.'' (0067)

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