Della Glenn, USTDA, 1621 N. Kent Street, Suite 300, Arlington, VA 22209-2131, Tel: (703) 875-4357, Fax: (703) 875-4009

C -- TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE AQABA-EILAT PEACE AIRPORT POC Della Glenn, USTDA, 1621 N. Kent Street, Suite 300, Arlington, VA 22209-2131, Tel: (703) 875-4357, Fax: (703) 875-4009 The U.S. Trade and Development Agency (TDA) seeks to award an interested U.S. firm which is qualified on the basis of experience and capability a fixed price contract to provide technical assistance to the Jordanian and Israeli civil aviation officials in the development of a blueprint for a joint-use airport authority or a holding company responsible for the operation of the joint-use airport on behalf of TDA. In addition, the Consultant shall develop a model for the sharing of all costs and revenues among the two parties based on similar joint-use airports in other parts of the world. Specifically, the Consultant shall carry out the following tasks: (i) Task 1: Provide Advisory Services to Jordanian and Israeli Officials, (ii) Task 2: Develop Several Models for Joint-use Airport Operation and Management, (iii) Task 3: Develop Procedures for the Management of Receivables and Payables, and (iv) Task 4: Provide Other Technical Assistance as Required by the Jordan-Israel Negotiating Committee. Where needed, the Consultant shall also provide appropriate technical assistance on issues related to the forthcoming Aqaba-Eilat Peace Airport pilot project such as airport management, legal authority, security, air traffic control, and financial matters. It is anticipated that the technical assistance will be provided over a 4-month period and will require a total of 5 man-months of effort from an Airport Finance and Management Expert, an Airport Operations Expert, an Airport Accounting Expert, and and Airport Organizational Expert. The U.S. firm selected will be paid in U.S. dollars. The Government's estimate for this contract does not exceed $150,000. TDA, located in the Washington, D.C., area, is an export-oriented, U.S. Government foreign assistance agency committed to promoting environmentally sound, sustainable economic development and trade in middle income and developing countries. Contractor selection will be based on offeror's understanding of the requirements of the solicitation as demonstrated by suitability of proposed approach to performing the work; technical qualifications of staff proposed to perform the work; and prior experience. This procurement shall be a full and open competition, under which any type of organization (commercial {for profit} firms, educational institutions, non-profit organizations) is eligible to compete. All participating organizations involved with supplying professional services must be of United States nationality. The competitive proposals method of solicitation, as set forth in Part 15 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) (48 CFR Chapter 1), shall be utilized for this procurement. This solicitation in no way obligates TDA to award a contract nor does it commit TDA to pay any cost incurred in the preparation and submission of the proposal. Any explanation desired by an offeror regarding the meaning or interpretation of this solicitation must be requested in writing and with sufficient time allowed for reply to reach the offerors before submission of their offers, and all oral explanations or instructions, given before the award of this contract will not be binding. Any written information given to a prospective offeror concerning the solicitation will be furnished promptly to all prospective offerors as an amendment of the solicitation, if such information is necessary to offerors submitting proposals or if lack of such information would be prejudicial to uninformed offerors. The Request for Proposal (RFP) will be issued on/or about fifteen (15) days after the publication date of this announcement. Closing date for proposals will be twenty-one (21) days thereafter. Only written requests for the RFP will be honored. Those interested in receiving RFP#TDA-98-Q-002 should send a letter or fax requesting it to the Contracts Office at TDA, (703) 875-4009 providing the firm's name, address, telephone number, fax number and the name of a contact person at the firm. (0289)

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