U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID/Egypt, Directorate of Procurement (D/PROC), 6th Floor, Unit 64902 APO AE 09839-4902

R -- PROVIDE SHORT-TERM QUICK RESPONSE TECHNICAL SERVICES IN THE AREA OF FINANCIAL AUDITING FOR USAID IN EGYPT. SOL RFP NO. 263-96-P-047 POC Contact Person: Anne L. Terio, Contracting Officer, USAID/Egypt, Tel: 011-20-2-357-3257, Fax: 011-20-2-356-2932. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), acting through the USAID Mission to Egypt (USAID/Egypt), is seeking proposals from qualified U.S. firms/joint ventures for a one year indefinite quantity contract with two year option periods for an additional four years. Technical Support to USAID/Egypt in the area of financial auditing. Contractors will audit contracts, grants, cooperative agreements and other operations and or activities related to USAID/Egypt programs. USAID contemplates awarding multiple contracts to qualified firms. It is anticipated that the firms will be affiliated with a United States or international audit firm. This Request for Proposals (RFP) will be an indefinite quantity contract. Prospective offerors may request RFP-263-96-P-047, ''Provide Short Term Quick Response Technical Services in the Area of Financial Auditing'' in writing, from: Anne L. Terio, Contracting Officer, USAID/Cairo, Unit 64902, APO AE 09839-4902. Courier Service requests should be sent to: Anne L. Terio, Contracting Officer, U.S. Agency for International Development, 106 Kasr El Aini Street, Cairo Center Bldg., 6th Floor, Cairo, Egypt. Telephone requests will not be honored. The proposed contract listed here will be awarded under full and open competition. A list of all organizations requesting a copy of the RFP will be sent with each RFP document. By providing the list, USAID does not endorse the listed organizations as being capable of carrying out the activity, nor does USAID verify the claimed status of the organizations. Necessarily, the list will contain the names of only those organizations known prior to the issuance of the RFP document. Issuance date of the RFP will be around the beginning of November. Closing date for receiving proposals will be forty-five (45) days thereafter. When writing, calling or faxing, be prepared to state name, address, and solicitation number. All Responsible sources may submit an offer which will be considered. If a joint venture seeks proposal, information must be supplied with respect to all firms in the joint venture. ''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. 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/26396047/26396047.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 the INTERNET in its entirety and USAID bears no responsibility for data errors resulting from transmission or conversion processes. (0261)

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