USAID, Regional Contracts Office, Regional Support Center Budapest, Department of State, Washington, D.C. 20521-5270

R -- NGO DEVELOPMENT SOL RFP 160-98-001 DUE 011098 POC Contact Point: M. Kenyon, (011) 361-302-63-00, Regional Contracting Officer. RSC Budapest, on behalf of USAID/Croatia is soliciting offers to provide practical training, technical assistance and assist in the issuance of small seed grants to further NGO development, and to provide oversight for a three-year in-country grant program for indigenous NGOs. Offerors' approach will determine size and makeup of field team, but the contract is expected to run for three years and to cost between $2.8 and $3.0 million. 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 the following screen, select "Download Available USAID Solicitations". The RFP can also be downloaded via anonymous File Transfer Protocal (FTP). The FTP address is FTP.INFO.USAID.GOV. Logon using the user identification of the following directory for the RFP: pub/OP/RFP/16098001/16098001.rfp. Receipt of this RFP through Internet must be confirmed by weitten notification to the contract 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. (0288)

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