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F -- BIODIVERSITY AND FORESTRY SERVICES SOL M/OP-98-1398 POC Contact Point: Joesph Schmidt, Tel: 202-712-0619, Fax: 202-216-3132, Contracting Officer, Roy Plucknett, 202-712-1277 The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is contracting for technical assistance to support its environmental programs to conserve biological diversity, improve forest management, and promote sustainable, equitable economic development. The purpose of this contract is to acquire quick-response short-, medium- and long-term technical assistance, institutional support, and assistance in the on-the-ground implementation of programs to conserve biodiversity and manage forests for sustained use in USAID-assisted countries. We anticipate that much of this assistance will involve capacity building, and for that reason the participation of host-country institutions and cooperating country nationals will be important. This contract is intended to complement new and existing USAID partnerships with a wide variety of organizations through cooperative agreements, grants, inter-agency agreements, and contracts. This IQC also complements other USAID IQCs, either in place or planned, which focuson natural resource management policy, energy, sustainable agriculture and the conservation of aquatic coastal resources. It is anticipated that there will be up to three (3) Task Order-based IQC awards made based on full-and-open competition. There is no set-aside for this procurement. The SIC Code for the above awards is 0851 (Forestry Services). Subcontracting with small business concerns and socially and economically disadvantaged entities: USAID encourages the participation, to the maximum extent possible, of U.S. entities that are small business concerns, small disadvantaged business concerns, and disadvantaged enterprises. It is anticipated that the prime contractor will make maximum practicable use of such entities. Small business and small disadvantaged business subcontracting plans, pursuant to FAR 52.219-9, are required to be included in individual Task Order proposals submitted under this resultant IQC contract. To help identify potential subcontractors, a list of all organizations requesting a copy of the Request for Proposals (RFP) will be included as an attachment to the solicitation. 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 solicitation document. Interested parties may request a copy of RFP No. M/OP-98-1398 by submitting a written request addressed to: Roy Plucknett, Contracting Officer, Agency for International Development, Office of Procurement, Ronald Reagan Building, M/OP/B/LA, Room 7.09-114, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. 20523-7100, Attn: Joseph Schmidt. All RFPs will be mailed not less than 15 days after publication of this notice. Requests for copies of the RFP should be made in writing to the contact person. All RFPs will be mailed through the U.S. Postal Service. Please do not submit more than one request per organization, additional requests may not be honored. 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." Look under the following directory for the RFP: pub/OP/RFP/MOP981398/mop981398.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 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. 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/MOP981398/mop981398.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 RFP 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. All questions or concerns must be directed [in writing] to Joseph Schmidt, Contracting Specialist, at the address indicated above, by fax, or internet at jschmidt@usaid.gov. Posted 07/02/98. (0183)

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