U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID/Mission to Ukraine, American Embassy Kiev, Washington, D.C. 20521-5080

L -- COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF A MACROECONOMIC POLICY PROGRAM IN UKRAINE SOL USAID/KIEV RFA 97-01 DUE 020397 POC Contact Elinor B. Bachrach, Project Officer, USAID/Kiev, Tel: 380-44- 462-5678; Fax 380-44-462-5834 or Roy Pluckett, Agreement Officer, USAID/Washington, Tel: 703-875-1907; Fax: 703-875-1243. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking applications from a U.S. institution (or consortium of institutions led by a U.S. institution) for the purposes of (1) assisting the Government of Ukraine (GOU) to improve its macroeconomic policy formulation and implementation by providing policy advice and (2) extending policy support to new and ongoing reform efforts of USAID and other U.S. Government and international donor organizations involved with macroeconomic policy issues and programs in Ukraine. USAID reserves the right to fund, in whole or in part, any or none of the applications submitted in response to this announcement. Applications will be evaluated and the selection based on the application that is most advantageous to the Government, considering technical and cost factors stated in the evaluation criteria of the Request for Applications (RFA). Further instructions regarding technical and cost proposal will be in the RFA. The RFA, once issued, can be downloaded from the Agency Gopher. The Gopher is GOPHER.INFO.USAID.GOV. Select USAID Procurement and Business Opportunities from the Gopher menu. The RFA text can be downloaded by the Anonymous Files 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 RFA: pub/OP/RFA/1219701/1219701.rfa. Receipt of the amendment through INTERNET must be confirmed by written notification to the contact person noted above. It is the responsibility of the recipient of this amendment to ensure that it has been received from INTERNET in its entirety and USAID bears no responsibility for data error resulting from transmission or conversion processes. (0355)

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