USAID/South Africa, Pretoria, Department of State, Washington, D.C. 20521-9300

R -- TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO THE SUPPORT TO TERTIARY EDUCATION PROJECT SOL RFP 674-97-P-001 DUE 011397 POC Contact Dina Way, USAID/South Africa, Department of State, Washington, D.C. 20521-9300; Tel: (27)(12) 323-8868, Ext. 452; Fax: (27)(12) 323- 6443;. Sancardia Center, 9th Floor, Beatrix & Church Streets, Arcadia, Pretoria 0007, South Africa (P.O. Box 55380, Pretoria, South Africa); e-mail address: dway@usaid.gov/Contracting Officer, John P. McAvoy. USAID/South Africa plans to solicit offers from qualified U.S. entities to provide services to the Support for Tertiary Education Project. Under the proposed contract, the Contractor will provide (1) long-and short-term level-of effort technical assistance to the government departments and NGOs at the national and provincial levels, (2) short-term training and (3) grants management support for new and existing project grant agreements. Services will be required for a period of five (5) years. The primary objective of the activities to be implemented under the contract is to support the Republic of South Africa in: (1) enacting and approving policies for transforming the Further Education Sector, (2) developing responsible and functional systems to sustain a transformed education system, (3) strengthening organizational capacity within the education sector through NGOs, civil society organizations (CSOs) and government partnerships at the national and provincial levels, and (4) the formulation, dissemination of model education practices, and implementation of policies and a system at national and provincial levels in the Further Education and Youth Development sectors. USAID encourages the participation to the maximum extent possible of Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Business, and Women-owned concerns in this activity as prime or subcontractors in accordance with Part 19 of the FAR. In this respect, it is anticipated that the prime contractor(s) will make every reasonable effort to identify and make maximum practicable use of such concerns. To help identify potential subcontractors, a list of all organizations requesting a copy of the solicitation will be included with each solicitation issued. By providing the list, USAID does not endorse the listed organizations as being capable of carrying out the activity, nor does AID 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 solicitation. 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 (Word Perfect 5.1/5.2 format). All prospective offerors must notify the contact person in writing if they wish to receive a copy of the RFP and specify if they prefer a hard copy, a diskette, or if they prefer to be notified via Internet when the RFP is ready for downloading. 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/67497P001/67497p001.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. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered by the Agency. (0302)

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