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B -- REGIONAL TRADE MODELING SERVICES DUE 061797 POC Debi Kearns, Contract Specialist, (202) 205-2736. The U.S. International Trade Commission ("ITC" or Commission) requires the services of an outside expert consultant who has the expertise necessary to provide the ITC assistance in completing, by respective deadlines, modeling work required for existing investigations. The purpose of the proposed acquisition is to provide guidance and expertise to the Commission in adpating model programs it currently has in operation for the analysis of certain possible trade agreements. The ITC has acquired and developed a number of multi-country modeling frmae works and databases. These frameworks, as developed and adapted at the ITC to specific regions, have been applied to the analysis of alternative trade proposals under consideration. The proposed acquisition would provide further expertise in adapting data and modeling frameworks to the particular charactistics of the regions and the trade questions at issue in these investigations. The contractor will work with data and Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modeling programs in use at the ITC and provide expertise complementary to ongoing Office of Economics, Research Division (OE/RD) modeling work on current investigations. Contractor shall provide expertise on the construction a multi-country, multi-sectoral dynamically optimizing CGE model. Contractor guidance will be applied to adapting existing data and modeling programs to the generation of trade openness statistics of use to an investigation on the dynamic effects of trade liberalization. The contractor shall provide the Commission with a curriculum vitae, for evaluation, which shall demonstrate the following: (1) Ph.D in economics or agricultural economics and fifteen years of professional experience in economic modeling and have a Ph.D in economics or agricultural economics, (2) a record of scholarly publications in the field of dynamic modeling and economic growth, (3) the contractor shall have previously engaged in a consulting or Cooperative Agreement with USDA under which expertise on CGE modeling was provided to the Economic Research Service (ERS). Must be able to provide a point of contact at ERS who can verify that previous modeling work supplied to ERS by the contractor was acceptable, (4) the contractor shall have the ability to configure globle modeling data into a format the fulfills the requirements of a multi-country CGE model of the type represented by the ITC's Latin American Regional model. Must have the capability to configure global modeling data to suit a global CGE model of this type written in th General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) language, (5) the contractor shall have the capability to assist ITC in developing a model of the above-mentioned multi-country, multi-sectoral type, written in th GAMS language, rendered in a form that generates multi-year solutions derived from ful intertemporal dynamic optimizating behavior and that permits analysis of trade issues relvenat to the regions specified in the State of Work, (6) the contractor shall have the ability complete these tasks with work that meets the requirements and the delivery dates specified in the Statement of Work, and (7) the contractor shall supply its own computer equipment, software, and working space. Anticipated issued date for the Request for Quotations (RFQ) is June 19, 1997 with a closing date of June 23, 1997. Requests for copies shall be in writing sent to the above address. NO TELEPHONE REQUESTS WILL BE ACCEPTED. (0156)

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