USAID/Honduras/Office of Contract Management, Unit 2927, APO AA 34022

U -- TRAINING SERVICES SOL RFP NO. 96-038 DUE 062096 POC Timothy T. Beans, Contracting Officer, Tel. No. (011-504) 36-9320, Ext. 2454, Fax (011-504) 36-7776, Internet mzelaya@usaid.gov. The U.S. Agency for International Development in Honduras is seeking sources from qualified U.S. based institutions with training experience, to design and conduct a four week training program, in Spanish, for 26 professsional nurses in basic epidemiology, HIV disease prevention and control, program planning, and disease surveillance. The Geographic Code authorized for this Procurement is 000-United States only. Interested educational institutions should request a copy of the informal request for proposal as soon as possible. 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/RFP/52296038/52296038.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 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. (0165)

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