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

56 -- SOIL STABILIZATION PRODUCTS + FOR EMERGENCY RECONSTRUCTION OF ROADS AND BRIDGES IN HONDURAS (RECAP) SOL SOL 00-019 DUE 020700 POC Mr. Tim Truitt, Manager and Chief of Party, Special Executing Unit, FHIS, Tel: 011-504-236-7281, Fax: 011-504-236-8104, E-mail: ttruitt@usaid.gov 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 Executing Unit of the Emergency Reconstruction of Roads and Bridges Activity (RECAP) of the Honduran Social Investment Fund (FHIS), with financial assistance from the United States Agency for International Development Mission in Honduras, invites firms from the United States and Honduras who manufacture soil stabilization products (or their representatives) to submit proposals and price quotations for the supply of soil stabilization products for use on non-paved roads that were damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Mitch in October 1998. RECAP intends to purchase and apply up to $1,000,000 worth of soils stabilizing products over the next 12 months. RECAP will evaluate the bids and information supplied during this solicitation and shortlist up to five different suppliers of soil stabilizing products. RECAP will purchase a minimum amount of product from each short listed supplier to stabilize at least 2 kilometers of project roads. RECAP intends to establish test sections where the different products can be evaluated and tested. Subsequent purchases of stabilizers will be based on a combination of price and evaluated performance of the material applied on the RECAP roads. Financing for this activity originates from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Government of Honduras. All contracting processes under the RECAP Activity will conform to the GOH/USAID Host Country Contracting Procedures. USAID host country contracting and Government of Honduras contracting procedures. All RECAP activity reports and communications between contractors, consultants and GOH/FHIS will be in Spanish. The solicitation documents are only available in Spanish and proposals are to be submitted in Spanish. The completed tender documents must be received no later than 10:00 A.M., February 7, 2000 at the following address: Tim Truitt, Manager and Chief of Party, Special Executing Unit, RECAP Activity, located in Colonia San Carlos, Calle Ecuador, Casa No. 318, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. If sent by U.S. mail: Tim Truitt (C), Manager RECAP, Apartado Postal No. 3776, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The preferred method of distribution of procurement information is via the INTERNET or by request of a solicitation on a 3.5" Floppy Disk. If you require a copy of the solicitation in paper form, you must specifically ask for it, but you will not receive both a copy in paper form and a floppy disk. This CBD notice can be viewed and downloaded using the Agency Web Site. The request for proposals 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" and find the number of this solicitation. Receipt of this solicitation document through the INTERNET must be confirmed by written notification to the contact person noted above if you wish to be notified of any amendments to the solicvitation document. It is the responsibility of the recipient of this solicitation document to ensure that it is been received from the INTERNET in its entirety and USAID bears no responsibility for data errors resulting from transmission or conversion processes. Posted 02/01/00 (W-SN420615). (0032)

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