United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Office of Procurement M/OP/B/AEP, SA-14, Room 1539, Washington, D.C. 20523-1429

T -- FILM/VIDEO TAPE PRODUCTION SERVICES SOL 96-003 DUE 081096 POC Contact Point, Rose Marie Cernin, 703/875-1081, Contracting Officer, Anne T. Quinlan. Please read the entire notice before requesting the RFP. This RFP is subject to the availability of FY96 funds. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Bureau for Legislative and Public Affairs,(LPA/MC), intends to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a ONE-year, with TWO (2), ONE-year Options, Indefinite Quantity Contract for a full-service video production house services contract to handle the Agency's wide-range of production needs in the Washington, D.C. area. This will be a Small-Business Set-Aside Contract under SIC code 7812. The Bureau for Legislative and Public Affairs of the Agency for International Development is responsible for Congressional liaison, Press and Media. This contract provides a variety of professional and technical services to obtain the Agency's wide-range of production needs: satellite video program production, and transmission capabilities with an insert studio. The completed programs must be of broadcast quality. In order to be eligible for contract award, an offeror must be certified on the Qualified Producers List (QPL). Please contact the Federal Audiovisual Contract Management Office at (703)274-4875 for verification that you are on the list or to request an application. The contractor's facility must be within a ten mile radius to the State Department Building located at 21st & C Sts, NW in Washington, DC. 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). It is estimated that the solicitation will also be available on Internet on or about 7/12/96. 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 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/AEP9603/aep9603.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 process. Those interested in receiving a copy of the solicitation should send a letter referencing solicitation number OP/B/AEP-96-003 and indicate whether a disk or paper copy is desired or if you are receiving the RFP via Internet. Telephone or facsimile requests for the solicitation will not be honored. (0173)

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