U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID/Egypt, Directorate of Procurement (D/PROC, 6th Floor, Unit 64902, APO AE 09839-4902

R -- TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE REQUIRED UNDER THE CANAL CITIES WATER AND WASTEWATER PROJECT SOL RFP NO.263-97-P-053 POC Contact Point: Mr. William Reynolds, Contracting Officer, USAID/Egypt, Tel: 011-20-2-357-3257/58, Fax: 011-20-2-356-2932, e- mail address: wreynolds@usaid.gov. The U.S. Agency for International Development Mission to Egypt is soliciting proposals from U.S. firms for a contract to provide a comprehensive master plans to guide water and wastewater development in the three cities of Suez, Ismailia and Port Said along the Suez Canal, up to year 2020, in five year increments beginning in the year 2000. The contractor shall undertake any necessary studies and data collection to enable updating of system master plans for water and wastewater services in each of the three Canal Cities where existing information is insufficient or not available. The studies shall address the social impact of service shortages, problems of operation and maintenance of the existing service, pollution of major surface waters, and poor health conditions identified in sections of the respective cities. Based upon findings and conclusions of the studies, the contractor shall prepare updated development master plans that will provide the necessary information to allow the respective cities to design and develop physical infrastructure to meet their needs to the year 2020. The master plans shall include data collected using existing data where available on the physical settings for the three cities, and the adequacy of water and wastewater services in developed and developing areas. The contractor shall conduct a study to provide data on the leakage and water losses for the existing potable water systems. The plans shall also include target population with planned expansion of residential, industrial, agricultural and tourists' areas and their location to determine the water and wastewater needs through the year 2020 for these areas. The contractor shall consider the possibilities of both effluent reuse and co-composting of sludge and solid waste. The master plans shall also address the institutional organization to administrate and sustain the water and wastewater systems in the cities through the same period. The local Implementing Agency is NOPWASD. USAID Project No. is 263-0174. Expected duration of service is eighteen month. A cost plus fixed fee, completion type contract is contemplated. Interested offerors must request a copy of the Request For Proposals (RFP No. 263-97-P-053) in writing from Mr. William Reynolds, Contracting Officer, Directorate of Procurement, United States Agency for International Development, USAID/Egypt, Cairo Center Building, Sixth Floor, 106 Kasr El Aini Street, Cairo, Egypt. Address for U.S. mail: Directorate of Procurement, Unit 64902, APO AE 09839-4902. Telefaxed requests to 011-20-2-3562932 will be accepted. Telephone requests will not be considered. The RFP is expected to be released during June, 1997. Offerors will be given 45 days from the date of issuance of the RFP to prepare and submit their proposals. "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://ww.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 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/26397P053/26397p053.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 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 processes." The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) encourages the participation to the maximum extent possible of small business concerns, small disadvantaged business concerns and women-owned small business concerns in this activity as prime contractors or subcontractors in accordance with Part 19 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation. In this respect, it is anticipated that the prime contractor will make every reasonable effort to identify and make maximum practicable use of such concerns. All other evaluation criteria being found equal, the participation of such concerns may become a determining factor for selection. (0149)

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