USAID/Kyiv, 19 Nyzhniy Val St., 254071 Kiev, Ukraine

U -- UKRAINE COMMERCIAL LAW INFORMATION CENTER SERIES SOL USAID/Kyiv RFP 00-06 DUE 041500 POC Lydia Goudz, E-mail: lgoudz@usaid.gov, Tel: 380-44-462-5678, Fax: 380-44-462-5834, Contracting Officer: Catherine A. Mallay, E-mail: cmallay@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, lgoudz@usaid.gov or cmallay@usaid.gov. USAID/Kiev will compete under full and open competition a three to five year contract (including options and/or possibly a task order mechanism) under which a U.S. contractor, in conjunction with a Ukrainian partner, will establish a commercial law resource center. The commercial law resource center will provide commercial law training, technical assistance and information services to both the public and private sector. Work under the contract will focus on four interrelated areas: 1. Public and private sector commercial law training; 2. Technical advisory services in response to requests from Government of Ukraine legislative working groups (the first year's topics to include development of the civil code); 3. Outreach program that will disseminate knowledge and information on commercial law topics to a wide range of clients; 4. Institutional development of a Ukrainian partner to develop and indigenous capacity to provide the foregoing services and to develop and implement a sustainability plan that addresses the organizational, managerial and financial requisites that would allow the Ukrainian partner to carry on the activities after the end of the contract. This CBD notice can be viewed and downloaded using the USAID 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." 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. Any interested party requesting a hard copy or diskette of the solicitation must submit a written request (fax or email is acceptable) to the contact person noted above and must make its own arrangements to get the solicitation (mail, courier, etc.); USAID/Kievwill not bear the cost for this purpose of courier service or other special pickup or delivery services. Posted 02/11/00 (W-SN424618). (0042)

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