U.S. Agency for International Development, M/OP/ENI/PER, Office of Procurement, RRB, Room 7.09, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, North West, Washington, D.C. 20523-7900

R -- FISCAL REFORM SOL M/OP/ENI/PER-98-001 DUE 051598 POC Contact Point: John Griffin, Tel: 202-712-4663; Contracting Officer, Anne T. Quinlan; Tel: 202-712-4614; Fax: 202-216-3396, Internet Address: jgriffin@usaid.gov The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is contemplating the award of a five (5) year cost-reimbursement, indefinite delivery type contract in fiscal reform. USAID requests proposals from private firms, universities or PVO'S to implement this performance-based, results oriented activity, in which proposals will be reviewed, award made, and implementation monitored based upon the Contractor's success at planning for and delivering the specified results in the substantive areas of the project. These will include to provide the Europe and New Independent States Bureau of the U.S. Agency for International Development with technical services to support a comprehensive range of long-term, short-term, and training programs intended to promote fiscal reform and development in countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the New Independent States (NIS). Activities carried out under this contract will be intended to improve governments' capability to adopt and implement market- supportive, publically-responsible policies and programs in the areas of taxation, budget formulation and execution, intergovernmental fiscal relations, macroeconomic analysis, pension programs, public sector accounting, public administration, and control of crime and corruption in these areas. All questions related to this notice and requests for a copy of the RFP must be addressed in writing, by fax or by internet, to the contracting officer at the address stated above. Specify the RFP requested, and include your complete firm name, street address, phone and fax no. and the method of distribution which you prefer (internet, disk or paper copy). No telephone requests will be honored. The issuance date of the RFP is expected to be approximately fifteen (15) days from the date of publication of this notice. The closing date for submission of proposals will be approximately sixty (60) days from the actual issuance date, and will be specified in the RFP. The preferred method of distribution of USAID procurement information is primarily via the internet or secondarily by request of a solicitation on a 3.5" floppy disk (Wordperfect 5.1/5.2 format). Only in instances where internet access or utilization of diskettes are not possible will a hard copy of the RFP be distributed upon request. This CBD notice and the RFP once issued, can be viewed and downloaded from the USAID external 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." 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 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. (0076)

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