U.S. Agency for International Development, Regional Support Center, American Embassy, Budapest, Washington, D.C. 20521-5270

R -- PROFESSIONAL, ADMINISTRATIVE AND MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SERVICES SOL AID/REP/HUNGARY-97-385 DUE 052997 POC Contact Point: Michael S. Kenyon, Tel. No. 361-267-4400, e-mail mkenyon@usaid.gov, Regional Contracting Officer. The contractor will provide 1-2 years of short-term services in the form of Delivery Orders under an Indefinite Quantity Contract format. The services will be in the form of studies of financial, economic and legal/legislative issues confronting the Government of Hungary. As much of the work will require fluency in Hungarian, the ability to provide specialists fluent at the S-4, R-4 level as established by the Natl. Foreign Affairs Training Center will be essential, as well as the capacity to translate documents in both English and Hungarian. "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 RFP, once issued, 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 thefollowing screen, select "Download Available USAID Solicitations." The RFP 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 RFP: pub/OP/RFP/HUN97385/hun97385.rfp. Insert the file name of the RFP including the file extension. Receipt of this RFP through INTERNET must be confirmed by written notification to the contact person noted above. It is the responsibility of the recipient 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 process. (0084)

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