USAID; Regional Contracts Office, USAID/Ethiopia, Washington, D.C. 20521-2031

R -- PROFESSIONAL HEALTH SERVICES SOL 663-98-R-002 DUE 112598 POC Contact Point: Ms. Carolyn Eldridge, Contracting Officer, or Ms. Aster Kebede, Contract Negotiator 011-251-1-510088 NOTE: This is a State Department Address, mail is forwarded from there to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission in Ethiopia has a requirement for a four year contract to provide health services to Ethiopia. Activities under the contract will include (but are not limited to) the following: (a) train the central Ministry of Health (MOH) staff in health sectoral planning, decentralized health and financial management, budget development, and support of private health care delivery; (b) develop and pilot cost recovery methods, revolving drug funds, and community-based insurance programs; (c) design strategies as well as management and monitoring tools to integrate reproductive health, family planning, and STI/HIV/AIDS prevention and control interventions into Primary and Preventative Health Care (PPHC) services to include both the public and private health sectors; (d) train Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region (SNNPR) staff, at the regional, woreda and zonal health bureaus, in planning, financial management, budgeting, mobilizing resources, and logistics and medical supply management; (e) design approaches to improve the training capacity of the Regional Training Centers in the SNNPR in order to better train health providers in quality health care delivery; and (f) assist the regional, woreda, and zonal health Bureaus to develop and implement approaches for effective community outreach activities including strategies to link community-based activities with the formal health system. Offerors will be expected to propose dynamic and innovative strategies and approaches to implement the specified activities outlined in the RFP as well as address other crucial components, such as: policy and institutional reforms, system strengthening, capacity building at decentralized levels, PPHC services, information dissemination, and sustainability. Subcontracting with small business concerns and socially and economically disadvantaged entities: USAID encourages the participation to the maximum extent possible of US entities that are small business concerns, small disadvantaged business concerns, including women-owned concerns, historically black colleges and universities, colleges and universities whose student body is at least 40 percent Hispanic American, and private voluntary organizations controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals including women, in accordance with Part 19 of the FAR and Part 726 of the AIDAR. It is anticipated that the awardee will make maximum practicable use of such entities; subcontracting plans will be required. Interested parties must submit a written request for a copy of the solicitation document with four self-addressed mailing labels. In accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulations, the solicitation document will not be released less than fifteen calendar days from the date of publication; however it will be issued as soon thereafter as is possible. 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 (WordPerfect 5.1/5.2 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 Opportunities from the home page, then "USAID Procurements." On the following screen, select "Download Available USAID Solicitations." Look under the following directory for the RFP: pub/OP/RFP/663-98-002.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. Posted 09/09/98 (I-SN247358). (0252)

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