Regional Contracts Office, USAID/Guatemala-CAP, Unit 3323, APO AA 34024

R -- PROGRAM MANAGEMENT/SUPPORT SERVICES SOL RFA 596-96-A-013 DUE 062096 POC Lilian L. Rodas, Telephone (502-2) 320202 fax (502-2) 311506, Contracting Officer: Paula S. Miller. The United States Agency for International Development/Guatemala-Central American Programs (USAID/G-CAP), under the CENTRAL AMERICAN HIV/AIDS Project, is interested in providing assistance to an organization, through a cooperative agreement to establish a Central American HIV/AIDS Condom Social Marketing Program. This program will continue to maintain high coverage rates of an affordable quality condom to the target population after the withdrawal of USAID support. The burden is upon the prospective recipients of the cooperative agreement to convince USAID/G-CAP that they are committed to the social marketing concept in general and to CSM for HIV/AIDS prevention in Central America in specific. They must convince the Mission that they have a viable plan, both technically and financially, for developing a regional CSM program with high coverage of an affordable quality condom to the target population. Furthermore, before assistance begins, USAID/G-CAP must be convinced that the recipient (or its proposed Central American affiliate) will be willing and capable of maintaining the program in Central America after the withdrawal of all donor assistance. Therefore, USAID/G-CAP has established the following eligibility criteria to the award: It will be a prerequisite to the award that the recipient, or the Central American Organization with which it proposes to work, demonstrates to the satisfaction of USAID that its charter documents (or that of the proposed affiliate) are or will be written in a way such that the organization will be required to operate only for purposes consistent with the objectives of this component, and will be prevented from paying dividends to owners or otherwise accessing the assets of the business for private gain, even following the conclusion of the cooperative agreement. In the event such charter documents do not so specify at the time of the award, the recipient (or the proposed affiliate) must accomplish the requisite amendments within time frame of the first annual work plan, in form and substance satisfactory to USAID. Failing that, the recipient will be deemed to have agreed to a mutual termination of the instrument. No telegraphic or fax proposals will be accepted. Geographic Code is 000 and Central America. RFA 596-96-A-013 may be requested from Regional Contracts Office, USAID/G-CAP Unit 3323, APO AA 34024, Fax (502-2) 311506 or 311151, Attention Lilian L. Rodas. 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 can also be downloaded via Anonymous File Transfer Protocol (FTP). The FTP address is FTP.INFO.USAID.GOV. Logon using the user identification of ''anonymous'' and the password is your e-mail address. Look under the following directory for the RFP: pub/OP/RFA/59696013/59696013.rfa. 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 Internet in its entirety and USAID bears no responsibility for data errors resulting from transmission or conversion processes. The publication of this notice and/or the issuance of an RFP do not obligate the U.S. Government to award a contract. (0131)

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