Regional Contracting Officer, USAID/Warsaw, Department of State, Washington, D.C. 20521-5010

R -- SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT SOL POLAND-96-001 DUE 052096 POC Contact Point, Michael H. Synder, Regional Contracting Officer, USAID/Warsaw, Phone Country code 48, City code 22, 630-24-80, msynder@usaid.gov. RFP Poland/96-001, USAID/Warsaw requires the services of an organization to implement a program to develop the capacity of polish management consulting organizations to assist in the management development of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and in so doing to provide management development services to selected Polish SMEs. Faxed requests for the RFP document will be accepted at Country Code 48, City Code 22, 628-74-86. Telephone requests will not be honored. 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 text can also 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/PO601/po601.rfp. Receipt of this RFP through INTERNET must be confirmed by written notification to the contract 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. (0086)

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