Della Glenn, USTDA, Room 309, SA-16, Washington, DC 20523-1602, Tel: (703) 875-4357, Fax: (703) 875-4009

B -- SOUTH AMERICA MAJOR PROJECTS PUBLICATION POC Della Glenn, USTDA, Room 309, SA-16, Washington, DC 20523-1602, Tel: (703) 875-4357, Fax: (703) 875-4009 Page 1 of 2 The U.S. Trade and Development Agency (TDA) wishes to announce a Competitive Total Set-Aside for a Small Business to provide project identification services and a briefing book regarding South American projects, sectorial and country analyses. The U.S. Trade and Development Agency seeks to identify not less than 125 major public and private sector infrastructure projects, of which no more than fifteen may be projects already included in previous TDA conferences (and only when there are significant new issues that justify inclusion) in ten target countries in the energy, environment, telecommunications, transportation and industrial sectors. The project identification process will target projects which are expected to offer significant business opportunities for U.S. exporters and investors and which are expected to reach the implementation stage within 1-2 years. The result will be a briefing book containing detailed project profiles for each of the projects identified; a regional report onthe South American economic, financial, and business climate; sectoral analyses; country profiles for each of the ten countries to be targeted; and case studies representative of successful projects. The briefing book will be presented at a TDA-sponsored conference in October/November of 1997, in the United States. The conference will include the sponsors or representatives of these projects, whose participation in the conference will be confirmed through the efforts of the consultant during the process of project identification. TDA is seeking to meet this objective by contracting the services of a specialized contractor. TDA's specialized contractor will be required to identify not less than 125 infrastructure projects, acceptable to TDA, in the energy, environment, telecommunications, transportation and industrial sectors; and develop detailed profiles of these projects which together with the regional report, country reports, sectoral analyses and case studies will be compiled into a briefing book for distribution to U.S. firms at a TDA-sponsored business conference. The briefing book will contain, as a minimum: a regional report on the South American economic, financial, and business climate; project profiles for each of the 125 projects, which will contain a detailed description of the project and information on the site, timing, equipment and services demand, identification of what is needed to make the project move forward, a financial assessment, and the identification of key decision-makers; country profiles for each of the ten countries to be targeted; sectoral analyses covering the transportation, energy, environment, telecommunications, and industrial sectors; and case studies (not less than five) representative of successful projects that have been or are in the process of being implemented. During the course of project identification, the contractor will be required to confirm participation of an appropriate project representative (project sponsor) for each project to participate in the conference. Each project sponsor will be expected to cover his/her air fare to the conference site and TDA will cover all conference costs for project sponsors. The formal invitation will be issued by TDA, but the contractor will coordinate the distribution of the invitation letters. The contractor will provide 400 copies of the briefing book and deliver them to the site of the TDA business conference in the United States. (0052)

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