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

R -- PROVIDE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO SUPPORT THE ECONOMIC REFORM ACTIVITIES, SPECIFICALLY IN THE FINANCIAL AND CAPITAL MARKETS AREAS, OF THE GOVERNMENT OF EGYPT SOL RFP NO. 263-97-P-059 POC Contact Point: Anne L. Terio, Contracting Officer, USAID/Egypt, Tel: 011-20-2-357-3257, Fax: 011-20-2-356-2932, E-mail: aterio@usaid.gov. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), acting through the USAID Mission to Egypt (USAID/Egypt), is seeking proposals from qualified U.S. firms/joint ventures for a three-year cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with an option period. This Request for Proposals (RFP) will be a performance based, results oriented type contract, with a task budget. This activity seeks to strengthen Egypt's Capital Markets Development, in the areas of computer assisted operational technologies for stock, bond and money markets, strengthen the capital market regulatory environment -- regulations, guidelines and operating procedures and provide expert advice in the activation of money and bond markets. This activity will require the services of a long term team of expatriate advisers, and local Egyptians to work primarily on issues relating to capital markets development. The team's principal roles are envisioned to include, but are not limited to, an expatriate chief of party, expatriate advisors in the areas ofsecurities regulation, automation, technical operations and administrative and a number of short term Egyptian experts together with support personnel. The contractor will be expected to carry out a number of tasks at strengthening Egypt's CMA system. The team will be expected to work with the Government of Egypt and other designated organizations on CMA-related issues, and the Contractor's personnel staff will have experience and education to support the required deliverables. Prospective offerors may request RFP-263-97-P-059, "Provide Technical Assistance to Support the Economic Reform Activities, Specifically in the Financial and Capital Markets areas, of the Government of Egypt", in writing, from: Anne L. Terio, Contracting Officer, USAID/Cairo, Unit 64902, APO AE 09839-4902. Courier Service requests should be sent to: Anne L. Terio, Contracting Officer, U.S. Agency for International Development, 106 Kasr El Aini Street, Cairo Center Bldg., 6th Floor, Cairo, Egypt. Telephone requests will not be honored.The estimated date for issuance of the RFP is October 1997. The proposed contract listed here will be awarded under full and open competition. To help identify potential subcontractors, a list of all organizations requesting a copy of the RFP will be sent with each RFP document. By providing the list, USAID does not endorse the listed organizations as being capable of carrying out the activity, nor does USAID verify the claimed status of the organizations. Necessarily, the list will contain the names of only those organizations known prior to the issuance of the RFP document. "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/26397P059/26397p059.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 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. (0175)

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