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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF JANUARY 23,1997 PSA#1767Della Glenn, USTDA, Room 309, SA-16, Washington, D.C. 20523-1602, Tel:
(703) 875-4357, Fax No.: (703) 875-4009 B -- TDA PROCUREMENT REQUEST FOR ADVISORY ASSISTANCE AND HANDBOOK
PREPARATION POC Della Glenn, USTDA, Room 309, SA-16, Washington, D.C.
20523-1602, Tel: (703) 875-4357, Fax No.: (703) 875-4009 The U.S. Trade
and Development Agency (TDA) wishes to announce aCompetitive Total
Set-Aside for Small Businesses to provide advisory assistance to TDA to
help evaluate a request to place a technology/trade advisor overseas in
Indonesia and to prepare a handbook for TDA covering all aspects
concerning TDA funded advisors. This contractor will help TDA evaluate
the merits of placing advisors in strategic positiions overseas in
foreign government ministries or agencies responsible for major
procurement opportunities. The purpose of such assistance is to help
U.S. industry compete for major project opportunities and to provide
the foreign entity with expert engineering, technical and trade advice
for project planning purposes. TDA, located in the Washington, D.C.
area, is a commercially-oriented U.S. Government export promotion
agency that helps U.S. companies pursue overseas business
opportunities. Through the funding of feasibility studies, orientation
visits, training grants, and various forms of technical assistance,
TDA enables American businesses to become involved in the planning
stage of infrastructure and industrial projects in middle-income and
developing countries. The Small Business Act, at 15 U.S.C. 644,
authorizes procuring agencies to set aside procurements or portions of
procurements for the exclusive participation of Small Business
Concerns. The Sic Code for this procurement is 8999 -- Services, N.E.C.
Definition: "Small business concerns" for purposes of TDA award of this
total set aside contract means a concern, including its affiliates,
that is independently owned and operated, not dominant in the field of
operation for which it is bidding. In determining whether dominance
exists for TDA's purpose for this contract, consideration is given to
annual gross receipts. Any concern that has annual gross receipts above
$5 million dollars, averaged over a three year period, is not
considered small and is therefore, NOT eligible for award under this
contract. All participating organizations involved with supplying
professional services must be incorporated or chartered in the United
States. Consultants planning teaming arrangements must be U.S. citizens
or resident aliens. In accordance with FAR 19.301, offerors will be
required to submit self certification relating to business size. The
competitive proposals method of solicitation as set forth in Part 15 of
the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) (48 CFR Chapter 1) shall be
utilized for this procurement. This solicitation in no way obligates
TDA to award a contract, nor does it commit TDA to pay any cost
incurred in the preparation and submission of the proposal. Any
explanation desired by an offeror regarding the meaning or
interpretation of this solicitation must be requested in writing and
with sufficient time allowed for reply to reach the offerors before
submission of their offers. All oral explanations or instruction, given
before award of this contract will not be binding. Any information
given to a prospective offeror concerning the solicitation will be
furnished promptly to all prospective offerors as an amendment of the
solicitation, if such information is necessary to offerors submitting
proposals or if lack of such information would be prejudicial to
uninformed offerors. The Request for Proposal (RFP) will be issued
on/about (15) fifteen days after the publication date of this synopsis.
Closing date will be ten (10) days thereafter (Proposals will be
limited to 30 pages or less). Only written requests for the RFP that
indicate the businesses size will be honored. U.S. eligible small
businesses interested in receiving the RFP should send a fax requesting
it to Della Glenn at (703)875-4009 or a letter by U.S. mail to Ms.
Glenn at U.S. Trade and Development Agency (TDA), Contracts Unit, Room
309, SA-16, Washington, D.C. 20523-1602. Delivery by any other means
must be addressed to Ms. Glenn at 1621 N. Kent Street, Room 309,
Rosslyn, VA 22209. (0021) Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0016 19970123\B-0003.SOL)
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