USAID/Honduras/Office of Contract Management, Unit 2927, APO AA 34022

C -- ARCHITECT AND EENGINEERING SERVICES, EMERGENCY RECONSTRUCTION OF ROADS AND BRIDGES IN HONDURAS (RECAP) DUE 112499 POC Tim Truitt, Manager and Chief of Party, Special Executing Unit (FHIS), Telephone: (504) 236-9320, Fax: (504) 236-7776; E-mail: ttruitt@usaid.gov; Contracting Officer WEB: http://www.info.usaid.gov/procurement_bus_opp/procurement/announce/cbd, http://www.info.usaid.gov. E-MAIL: http://www.info.usaid.gov, ttruitt@usaid.gov. The Government of Honduras acting through the Honduran Social Investment Fund (FHIS), with financial assistance from the United States Agency for International Development Mission in Honduras, invites expressions of interests and submission of pre-qualification questionnaires for the purpose of short-listing construction firms from the United States and the Central American Common Market (Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua) who can demonstrate extensive experience and capability in the area of reconstruction of roads and bridges. Interested organizations must be able to provide Spanish speaking personnel since all documentation, including the pre-qualification questionnaire, is in the Spanish language. The Honduran Government is starting the permanent rehabilitation of roads and bridges damaged by hurricane Mitch. The rehabilitation program will be implemented by FHIS and directly managed by a special executing unit. Financing for this activity originates from the United StatesAgency for International Development (USAID) and the Government of Honduras (GOH). All contracting processes under the RECAP Activity will conform to the GOH/USAID Host Country Contracting Procedures. The RECAP Project will rehabilitate roads and bridges, all located in the Departments of Alantida, Yoro, Colon, Olancho, Choluteca and Valle. The combined, total value of the contracts will be approximately US$50 million. Only pre-qualified construction firms from Central American Common Market countries and the USA are eligible to bid on these works. The rehabilitation works financed under RECAP will include the following: 2000 kms of non-paved roads; 2000 lineal meters of short-span bridges; 30 kms of paved roads (in scattered sections) and; 20 kms of cobblestone surfacing, using labor-based techniques. Interested organizations must send the completed pre-qualification information and related statements no later than 2:00 p.m local time, November 24, 1999 at the following address: Tim Truitt, Manager and Chief of Party, Special Executing Unit, RECAP Activity, USAID/Honduras/ANRO, c/o USAID Avenida La Paz (al frente de la Embajada de los EEUU), Tegucigalpa, M.D.C., Honduras. If sent by U.S. mail, send it certified mail to: Tim Truitt, USAID/Tegucigalpa, APO AA 34022, Unit 2927. 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 pre-qualification questionnaire, 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." Receipt of this questionnaire 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 entiretyand USAID bears no responsibility for data errors resulting from transmission or conversion processes. Posted 11/01/99 (W-SN396667). (0305)

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