United States Agency for International Development, M/OP/A/P, Room 1523, SA-14, Office of Procurement, Washington, D.C. 20523

R -- TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE SOL MEASURE POC Contact Point: Ms. Kimberley McNeil Kester, kkester@usaid.gov., 703/875-1405, Fax: 703/875-1107. USAID's Bureau for Global Programs, Field Support and Ressearch, Center for Population Health and Nutrition intends to support a ten-year results package entitled "Monitoring and Evaluation to Assess and Use Results (MEASURE)". In furtherance of this objective, USAID's Office of Procurement is issuing a three draft solicitation packages for technical assistance/services in support of MEASURE, for comments from interested parties. Comments will be accepted through the close of business, 4/02/97, addressed to the point of contact in this notice. These draft solicitation packages are being issued as a set, as they are integrally linked and should be viewed in their totality for a complete understanding of MEASURE. Each solicitation is anticipated to result in the award of a contract or cooperative agreement, as detailed below. The finalized solicitation packages (one RFA and two RFP's) resulting from this draft process are anticipated to be issued in late April 1997. The proposed assistance/services are as follows: 1. A Contract for data collection and related analysis and training activities. 2. A Cooperative Agreement which will support a program of technical assistance in the development of evaluation and monitoring plans, coordination of data collection, monitoring and evaluation efforts, not only at the country level but also among donors, research and development on improved evaluation tools and methodologies and improved understanding of program impact, training in evaluation and monitoring, and institutionalization of evaluation and monitoring efforts. This will not be for the conduct of evaluations, rather will serve as a technical resource to those who do and will provide the evaluation related assistance described above. A Contract for the dissemination and utilization of data. The activities under this procurement will include packaging data and evaluation results appropriately for various consumer groups and audiences and assisting groups in gaining access to needed data. In addition, the implementing organization will assist in testing new ways to ensure more efficient dissemination and use of data. The preferred method of distribution of USAID procurement information is via the Internet or by request of a solicitation on a 3.5" floppy disk (WordPerfect 5.1/5.2 format). This CBD notice can be viewed and downloaded using the Agency Web Site. The draft solicitation can be downloaded from the Agency Web Site. The Worldwide Web address is http://www.info.usaid.gov. Select "Business and Procurement Opportunities" from the home page, then "USAID Procurements". On the following screen, select "Download Available USAID Solicitations". The draft solicitation text can also be downloaded via Anonymous File Transfer Protocol (FTP). The FTP address is FTP.INFO.USAID.GOV. Logon using the user identification of "anonymous" and the password is your e-mail address. Look under the following directory for the draft solicitations: pub/OP/RFP/MEASURE1/measure1.rfp, pub/OP/RFA/MEASURE2/measure2.rfa, pub/OP/RFP/MEASURE3/measure3.rfp. If the FTP service is down, please refer to the Agency Web Site in the interim. Receipt of this draft solicitation package through INTERNET must be confirmed by written notification to the contact person noted above. It is the responsibility of the recipient of this draft 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. Problems regarding Internet access to these documents or problems in the downloading process should be directed to the USAID Internet Coordinator at (703) 875-1116. (0071)

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