Regional Contracting Office, American Embassy/Amman, Unit 70206, APO AE 09892-0206

R -- PROPOSED SOLE SOURCE AMENDMENT TO AN EXISTING USAID/JORDAN CONTRACT POC Jeffery Bell, Regional Contracting Officer, Fax: 962-6-592-0143 WEB: http://www.info.usaid.gov/procurement_bus_opp/procurement/announce/cbd, http://www.info.usaid.gov. E-MAIL: http://www.info.usaid.gov, jbell@usaid.gov. Under a full and open competitive process, USAID/Jordan award a contract to Chemonics International on January, 1998 to assist the Mission achieve its required results and targets for the Access to Microfinance and Implementation of Policy Reform (AMIR) Program. The current contract is value at $46,139,451 and the period of performance extends until January 31, 2002, To date, the activities under the subject contract have contributed significantly to the Missions results and targets. As a result of the recent approval by USAID/Washington, the Mission's Strategic Objective under which this contract is funded has been extended to 2004. The Mission has determined that the continuation of the AMIR activities would be most beneficial to Jordan and the Mission's goals under the Strategic Objective. However, with the relatively short timeframe provided in Jordan's extended strategy, the Mission believes that a full and open competition would be prohibitively expensive, given the costs for the re-patriation ofa significant number of expatriate staff, severance costs to local staff members and other ancillary costs associated with a contract close-out, for the approximately 2 year extension of specialized services. Thus, under the authority of AIDAR 706.302-70, the Mission is proposing to amend the existing contract with Chemonics International without further competition for the extended period in an amount not expected to exceed $23,500,000!! Posted 07/25/00 (W-SN478413). (0207)

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