United States Agency for International Development - USAID/Ghana 2020, Contracts Office, Dept. of State, Washington, D.C. 20523-2020

R -- THE WORK TO BE PERFORMED UNDER THE ANTICIPATED CONTRACT. SOL RFP NO. 641-97-P-001 POC Contact Point: Contracting Officer, Tel. Accra, Ghana 233-21-231939. The work to be performed under the anticipated contract includes training, technical assistance and commodity procurement in order to achieve the desired program result, which is to improve the quality of learning. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID/Ghana) is conemplating the award of a major five year technical assistance, cost plus fixed fee, contract in primary education. The mission's second Strategic Objective (S.O.#2), ''Increased Effectiveness of the Primary Education System'', has national level objectives with direct national, district, community and school based activities. The Mission S.O. will demonstrate conditions and processes, in targeted public primary schools, that are essential to improving the quality of learning. At the same time, the environment for spreading and sustaining those conditions and processes will be encouraged and supported at the district and national levels. The contractor will provide technical assistance, training and commodities and manage activities in the following areas: 1)Develop and monitor a model school program, 2)Promote effective teaching and instructional supervision, 3)Improve personnel management systems, 4)Develop improved curriculum, instructional materials and pupil assessment systems, and 5)Strengthen the capacity and authority of decentralized education units to support effective schooling. Requests for copies of the RFP should be addressed in writing and sent via State Department Pouch to: Contracting Officer, United States Agency for International Development - Ghana 2020, Department of State, Washington D.C. 20523-2020 or by international courier to: Contracting Officer, United States Agency for International Development, E45/3 Independence Avenue, PO Box 1630, Accra, Ghana. A pre-proposal conference is tentatively scheduled for January 13, 1997, the exact date, time and location will be specified in the RFP. The anticipated release date for this RFP is on or about November 27, 1996. In order to receive solicitation documents in a timely manner, requests should be received by USAID/Ghana prior to this date. USAID/Ghana encourages and welcomes in this activity the participation, to the fullest extent possible, of minorities and women both as individuals and as members of contracting or sub-contracting firms. In this respect, it is anticipated that the prime contractor will make every reasonable effort to identify and make the maximum practicable use of such personnel and firms. No telephone or fax requests for solicitation documents will be accepted. (0313)

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