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R -- TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE REQUIRED FOR THE AGRICULTURE POLICY REFORM PROJECT (APRP), MONITORING, VERIFICATION AND EVALUATION (MVE) SOL RFP NO. 263-95-P-072 POC Contact Points Mr. James Athanas, Contracting Officer, or Mr. Sherif Mowafy. Contact Points: Mr. James C. Athanas, Contracting Officer, or Mr. Sherif Mowafy, USAID/Egypt, Tel. No. 011-02-02-357-3257/8, Fax No. 011-2-02-356-2932, Internet address: JATHANAS@USAID.GOV or SMOWAFY@USAID.GOV. Correction: The advertisement for RFP No. 263-95-P-072 APRP/MVE 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) which this RFP is about. (2) Assistance in design and implementation of reforms (RDI). The RFP for the RDI is being independently advertised, 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 MVE contractor will be required to provide long and short-term expertise for agricultural policy analysis and marketing/agribusiness to support the monitoring, verification and evaluation of policy reforms. 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-072, ''Technical Assistance for the Agriculture Policy Reform Project (APRP), Monitoring, Verification and Evaluation (MVE)'', 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/26395072/26395072.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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