Regional Contracting Office, AmEmbassy, Santo Domingo (USAID), Unit 5541, APO AA 34041

R -- FINANCIAL AND MANAGERIAL SUPPORT SERVICES TO NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS (NGOS) AND PRIVATE VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS (PVO'S) SOL 517-96-001 Contact Point, Martin F. Napper, Regional Contracting Officer, 809-221-1100. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, has a requirement to continue implementation of its PVO Co-financing Project. A local Dominican contractor has been implementing this project under contract for the last 4 1/2 years, providing financial and managerial support services to NGOs and PVOs, the majority of which are also Dominican. The contractor will provide pre-award technical assistance when necessary, review concept papers for grants, and monitor grant performance. The contractor will work closely with the USAID project manager and will follow the selection process for grants under the project. This project extension will cover the last year of grant awards to NGOs and PVOs, on-going monitoring of subprojects, and phasing out of project activities including institutional strengthening of grantees. A full team of consultants will need to be in place by May 10, 1996, and be available for gradually decreasing needs until August 9, 1999. The RFP evaluation criteria will weight heavily previous experience with NGOs and PVOs, and implementation of USAID projects involving TA in the form of management and financial services. RFP 517-96-001 will be available on or about January 15, 1996. Interested parties shall submit their request for the RFP via fax to 809-221-0444 or by mail to the APO address above. The deadline for submitting proposals will be 30 calendar days after the effective date of the RFP. Please note however that, in the interests of saving time, photocopying and mailing costs, the preferred method of distribution of USAID procurement information is via the Internet or by request of a solicitation on 3.5'' floppy disk (Wordperfect 5.1/5.2 format). This CBD notice can be downloaded using the Agency Gopher. The RFP, once issued, can be downloaded from the Agency Gopher. The gopher address is GOPHER.INFO.USAID.GOV. Select USAID PROCURMENT AND BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES from the Gopher menu. From there, choose the heading USAID PROCUREMENTS and then DOWNLOAD AVAILABLE USAID SOLICITATIONS. The RFP can also be downloaded via Anonoymous File Transfer Protocol (FTP). The FTP address is FTP.INFO.USAID.GOV. Logon using the user identification of ''anonymous'' and the password is your e-mail address. Look under the following directory for the RFP: pub/OP/RFP/51796001/51796001.rfp. 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. USAID encourages the participation to the maximum extent possible of U.S. entities that are small, socially and economically disadvantaged business concerns, including women owned concerns, historically Black colleges and universities, colleges and universities having a student body in which more than 40% of the students are Hispanic Americans, and PVOs which are controlled by individuals who are socially and economically disadvantaged in accordance with Part 19 of the FAR and 726 of the AIDAR. (0023)

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