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R -- TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE ACCELERATING GROWTH, INVESTMENT AND LIBERALIZATION WITH EQUITY (AGILE) PROJECT SOL RFP 492-97-015 DUE 112197 POC Contact Point: Thea Pura, Acquisition Specialist and Mary Reynolds, Contracting Officer, Tel: (0632) 522-44-11 (Ext. 3460), Fax: (0632) 522-4337. The AGILE Activity is designed to support economic policy liberalization and enhance competition in the Philippines. The AGILE will consolidate within one contract the policy reform activities under the Mission Strategic Objective (SO)#2, "Improved National Systems for Trade and Investment," now being implemented by several separate activities. AGILE is the main policy design and implementation vehicle for economic policy reform works. Its two broad objectives are contributions: to continuing policy liberalization in the Philippines, and to increasing the degree of competition in the Philippine economy. The three major tasks areas are: (1) policy analysis, formulation and advocacy in support of increased liberalization and competition, (2) administration of a Special Activities Fund (SAF), and (3) SO2 monitoring, assessing and reporting. The contractor is expected to work on policy issues and related requirements in areas that may include: competitive structure, agriculture, tariff and non-tariff barrier reduction, World Trade Organization (WTO) technical assistance, inter-island and overland transportation, private investment in public infrastructure, build-operate-transfer (BOT) arrangements, development planning and economic statistics development, financial market development,industrial relations, intellectual property rights, electronic data interchange, telecommunications development, microenterprise policy, fiscal policy, tax administration, property tax policy and practice, economic policy areas specific to other USAID/Philippines SOs. The contractor will work with various government and private sector partners who have an interest in specific policy areas or issues. A cost reimbursement completion contract will be awarded through 30 September 2001. The contract has two sections: one section is for management of the on-going Activity, and the other section is for annually warded task orders. USAID/Philippines has decided that task orders based on work plans prepared annually by the contractor in conjunction with USAID and the Government of the Philippines (GOP)is preferable since we are unable to specify the full range of the GOP's policy issues at this time. We have estimated approximately 860 person months of technical assistance for the contract. Detailed information about this solicitation is contained in the solicitation documents which will be available on or about 30 September 1997. The estimated closing date is 21 November 1997. To obtain the RFP, send your written request to the Office of Regional Procurement, USAID/PHILIPPINES, FPO AP 96515, or Office of Regional Procurement, USAID/PHILIPPINES, RMC Building, 1680 Roxas Boulevard, Philippines 1000. Our telephone and fax numbers are (632)522-4411 (EXT. 3403) AND (632)522-4337, respectively. The preferred method of distribution of USAID procurement is via the INTERNE or by request of a solicitation on a 3.5" floppy disk (Wordperfect 5.1/5.2 Format). If you wish a hard copy of the RFP, you must specifically request it, and only the hard copy willbe sent to you. 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 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 on 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/49297015/49297015.rfp. You must confirm by written notification to the contact persons above that you have received this RFP through INTERNET. It is the responsibility of the requestor to ensure that it has received from INTERNET the complete RFP and any amendments to it. USAID bears no responsibility for data errors resulting from transmission or conversion processes. (0258)

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