U.S. Agency for International Development, M/OP/A/HRN, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, RRB 7.10-041, Washington, DC 20523-7101

R -- DELIVER SOL M/OP-00-700 DUE 050900 POC Mr. Kent Howard, Contract Specialist, E-mail: kenthoward@usaid.gov, Tel: 202-712-1818, Fax: 202-216-3052 WEB: http://www.info.usaid.gov/procurement_bus_opp/procurement/announce/cbd, http://www.info.usaid.gov. E-MAIL: http://www.info.usaid.gov, kenthoward@usaid.gov. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Bureau for Global Programs, Center for Population, Health and Nutrition (PHN Center) seeks an organization to provide worldwide health commodity logistics support to the PHN sector. The efforts are intended to improve the availability of health commodities including essential pharmaceuticals, contraceptives, vaccines, and other essential drugs at service delivery points (SDPs). Work within the contract (called DELIVER) will have the following four characteristics: First, DELIVER will provide to the field, basic family planning and health logistics assistance focused on the delivery of commodities to SDPs. This assistance includes capacity-building in forecasting, procurement, distribution, management, information systems, and other functions. Second, DELIVER will offer a broad capacity for technical assistance to improve distribution of contraceptives and other health commodities in integrated health commodity environments, decentralized systems, and systems in which private sector providers have a significant role. Third, DELIVER will provide support for resource mobilization and the coordination of available resources for commodities and logistics at the donor, lender, and country levels. In particular, this assistance is intended to address issues of contraceptive security. Finally, DELIVER will continue to offer Missions assistance in preparing annual contraceptive procurement tables (CPTs) and support USAID/W management of the Central Contraceptive Procurement (CCP) project as well as CCP's management information system and database. USAID anticipates the award of a five year $85,000,000.00 Fixed Level of Effort, Cost Plus Award Fee Contract. This award will be based on a full and open competition. The Request for Proposal (RFP), when issued, will provide the final information on the closing date. USAID intends to release the RFP on or about March 28, 2000. 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 (WORD 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 from the home page, then "USAID Procurements." On the following screen, select "Download 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. Please contact the M/OP Internet Coordinator at (202) 712-4442 if you experience downloading problems. Posted 03/16/00 (W-SN434968). (0076)

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