Allen Eisenberg, Regional Contracting Officer, USAID/Ecuador, Unit 5330, APO AA 34039

R -- TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROVIDER FOR THE SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL RESOURCES PROJECT SOL 527-96-P-011 (PERU) DUE 073096 POC Contact Cecilia Yanez, Acquisition Specialist. Contact Cecilia Yanez, Acquisition Specialist, USAID/Peru, International Phone 51-14/333-200 Ext. 746, Lima, Peru or Allen Eisenberg, Regional Contracting Officer, USAID/Ecuador, International Phone 593-2/521-100 Ext. 211 or Fax No. 593-2/500-502, Quito, Ecudaor. The Agency for International Development in Lima, Peru, is seeking proposals to provide technical assistance to the Consejo Nacional del Ambiente (CONAM) and the Government of Peru (GOP) to implement the Sustainable Environmental and Natural Resources Management Project (SEMREM). USAID/Peru intends to award a fifty-four month performance based contract in an amount not to exceed $1,700,000. The Technical Assistance Provider (TAP) contractor responsibilites will be to: (i) provide direct technical assistance to CONAM and GOP Ministries, (ii) develop and coordinate short-term legal and technical training opportunities for public officials, (iii) design a system which permits CONAM and other GOP agencies to compile, manage and distribute environmental information, (iv) provide tecnical assistance to the contractor responsible for the implementation of private sector advocacy activities, (v) support CONAM and other GOP environmental-related ministries in the design and implementation of legal and regulatory policies that will encourage the use of clean production techniques and technologies, (vi) support CONAM and other GOP environmental- related ministries in executing activities that will encourage private sector adoption of clean production methods, (vii) support the adoption of cost-effective, financially-sustainable environmental and natural resources protection practices by the private sector, and (viii) develop and install a ''Management Information System'' that will permit the Project, CONAM and other GOP environmental-related ministries to access relevant baseline data and performance data gathered and produced through the course of the project. The TAP contractor will provide the services of an In-Country Advisor (ICA) to CONAM for a period of 24 months. Also, the TAP will provide, supervise, monitor and support short-term technical assistance through off-shore and/or visiting consultants as needed on a case-by-case basis up to five person-months per year for a period of 4.5 years. Issuance date of the RFP will be at least fifteen (15) days after publication of this synopsis. Proposals from prospective contractors will be due forty-five (45) days after the issuance date. 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.INFOR.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/5279611/5279611. 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 application 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. (0143)

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