Raul Zuazo Tolmos, Director Municipal, Municipalidad de Lima Metropolitana, Direccin Municipal de Transporte Urbano, Av. Pedro Miotta Cdra. 3 s/n, Lima 29, PERU, phone: 011-511-276-0645/0646 fax: 011-511-276-0661

B -- TRAFFIC SIGNALING AND MANAGEMENT PROJECT IN LIMA, PERU POC Carol Stillwell, USTDA, Room 309, SA-16, Washington, D.C. 20523-1602, Tel: (703) 875-4357, Fax No.: (703) 875-4009 The Municipality of Lima (''Grantee'') invites submission of qualifications and proposal data (collectively referred to as the ''Proposal'') from interested U.S. firms which are qualified on the basis of experience and capability to develop a feasibility study for a traffic signaling and management project in the metropolitan area of Lima, Peru. In 1994, the Municipality of Lima created alimited network of computerized, traffic signals at 65 intersections in the historic center of the city, known as ''Lima Monumental,'' where the office of thepresidency and other government offices are located. The Lima municipal government plans to extend its existing computerized signaling system to a smallarea adjacent to Lima Monumental. The city conducted a study to prepare for thislimited expansion. Instead of proceeding in a piecemeal manner, the city would like to carry out a comprehensive traffic signaling and management project encompassing all of Lima and key sections of the surrounding metropolitan area. The objectives of the feasibility study are: 1) to determine the specifications of a traffic management and signaling system which serve as a cost-effective expansion of the existing computerized traffic signalingsystem in the historic city center to encompass 450 intersections serving the entire city and key intersections in several important outlying municipal districts. This will serveas the basis for a future project to include 2000 intersections in the entire metropolitan area and connections to multimodal urban transit means; 2) to analyze all new route configurations which are required for the placement and implementation of the new traffic signals; 3) to establish a detailed project budget and implementation schedule. Specific tasks include: 1. Data Collection, 2. Technical Analysis, 3. Economic and Financial Analysis, 4. Environmental Analysis, 5. Recommendations and Final Report. The U.S. firm selected will be paid in U.S. dollars from a $459,147 grant to the Grantee from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (TDA). A detailed Request for Proposals (RFP), which includes requirements for the Proposal, the Terms of Reference, and a backgrounddefinitional mission/desk study report are available from TDA, at Room 309, SA-16, Washington, D.C. 20523-1602. Requests for the RFP should be faxed to the IRC, TDA at 703-875-4009. In the fax, please include your firms name, contact person, address, and telephone number. Some firms have found that RFP materials sent by U.S. mail do not reach them in time for preparation of an adequate response. Firms that want TDA to use an overnight delivery service should include the name of the delivery service and your firm's account number in the request for the RFP. Firms that want to send a courier to TDA to retrieve the RFP should allow one hour after faxing the request to TDA before scheduling a pick-up. Please note that no telephone requests for the RFP will be honored. Please check your interna fax verification receipt. Due to the large number of RFP requests, TDA cannot respond to requests for fax verification. Requests for RFPs received before 4:00pm will be mailed the same day. Requests received after4:00pm will be mailed the following day. Please check with your courier and/or mail room before calling TDA. Only U.S. firms and individuals may bid on this TDA financed activity. Interested firms, their subcontractors and employees of all participants must qualify under TDA's nationality requirements as of the duedate for submission of qualifications and proposals and, if selected to carry out the TDA-financed activity, must continue to meet such requirements throughout the duration of the TDA-financed activity. All goods and services to be provided by the selected firm shall have their nationality, source and originin the U.S. or host country. The U.S. firm may use subcontractors from the host country for up to 20 percent of the TDA grant amount. Details of TDA's nationality requirements and mandatory contract clauses are also included in theRFP. Interested U.S. firms should submit their Proposal in English and Spanish directly to the Grantee in Lima, Peru by November 25, 1996. Evaluation criteria for the Proposal are included in the RFP. Price will not be a factor in contractor selection, and therefore, cost proposals should NOT be submitted. TheGrantee reserves the right to reject any and/or all Proposals. The Grantee also reserves the right to contract with the selected firm for subsequent work related to the project. The Grantee is not bound to pay for any costs associatedwith the preparation and submission of Proposals. (0284)

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