Allen Eisenberg, Regional Contracting Officer, USAID/Ecuador, Unit 5330, APO AA 34039

R -- ASSISTANCE TO PERUVIAN NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS (NGOS) FOR FAMILY PLANNING SERVICE DELIVERY SOL 527-97-P-001 (PERU) DUE 032997 POC Contact Cecilia Yanez, AS, USAID/Peru, Int'l. Phone (51-1) 433-3200 Ext. 746, Lima Peru. Contact Cecilia Yanez, Acquisition Specialist, USAID/Peru, International Phone (51-1) 433-3200 Ext. 746, Lima Peru. Contracting Officer Allen Eisenberg, Regional Contracting Officer, USAID/Ecuador, International Phone (59-3) 252-1100 Ext. 211 or Fax No. (59-3) 250-0502, Quito, Ecuador. The Agency for International Development in Lima, Peru, is seeking proposals from U.S. and/or Peruvian entities to provide assistance to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in family planning service delivery. USAID/Peru intends to award a five-year contract for a management partner to help Peruvian NGOs deliver family planning services in areas unserved or underserved by the public and/or private commercial sectors, with emphasis on rural and peri-urban Peru. The goal of "Family Planning within the Reach of High-risk Populations," known in Spanish as "ALCANCE," is to prevent unwanted pregnancies and abortions and to promote the health of women and children. ALCANCE's purpose is to increase the use of family planning and other selected reproductive health interventions among high-risk populations. ALCANCE will do this by supporting the provision of quality family planning and related services by NGOs, with emphasis on rural and peri-urban areas. The management partner will assist USAID/Peru in competitive selection of NGOs to participate in ALCANCE. NGOs throughout Peru will be eligible to submit proposals to deliver family planning services in areas of need they have identified. USAID/Peru will award cooperative agreements to the NGOs with successful proposals. The management partner will then provide participating NGOs short-term, in-service training and tailored technical assistance aimed at: 1) providing services within a quality of care framework, and 2) enhancing the institutional capability of the NGOs, as a further support for the provision of quality services. The management partner will also have responsibility for monitoring and supervision of the NGO programs supported under ALCANCE, as well as for the procurement of vehicles, medical equipment, office equipment and other commodities. Bidders for the role of management partner will propose a core team of key, long-term advisors to help USAID/Peru implement ALCANCE. Core team composition will include an advisor in family planning service delivery, a reproductive health advisor, a management and financial advisor, and a monitoring and evaluation advisor. One of these advisors would also serve as the team leader for the management partner. In addition, up to 80 person-months of short-term technical assistance may be provided in such areas as strategic planning, family planning service delivery, management and administration, reproductive health, gender, and monitoring and evaluation. Bidders will propose an illustrative slate of consultants in these and related areas. 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.INFOR.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. Log-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/527P9701/527p9701.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 offeror 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. Issue of the RFP will be at least fifteen (15) days after publication of this synopsis. Proposals from prospective bidders will be due approximately forty-five (45) days after the date of issue. (0017)

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