Contracting Office, USAID/Nepal, G.P.O. Box 5653, Kalimati Durbar, Kathmandu, Nepal 20521-6190

R -- CHILD SURVIVAL/FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES PROJECT Contact Point: Khem R. Gurung, Contracting Officer, USAID/Nepal, G.P.O. Box 5653, Kalimati Durbar, Kathmandu, Nepal. Fax 977-1-272357. Contracting Officer: Thomas M. Stephens, Regional Contracting Officer, USAID/Bangkok. Fax 662-255-1287. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Nepal Mission intends to extend the existing Contract No. 367-0157-C-00-0250-00 with present contractor John Snow Inc. (JSI) through July 15, 1997 from present contract performance period of September 24, 1990 to July 15, 1995 to continue providing services under the Child Survival/Family Planning Services Project (CS/FPS) which has been extended to July 1997. The Contractor will be responsible to provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Health of the Government of Nepal (GON) to improve their capability to manage effectively selected portions of the national child survival and family planning service delivery programs, to improve the quality, availability and management of Control of Diarrheal Diseases (CCD) and Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) services, and to put in place an integrated national logistics management system for essential drugs and contraceptives. The contractor will be responsible for providing technical assistance (TA) from a Senior Logistics Management Advisor and five regional logistics teams to the Logistics Management Division (LDM), Ministry of Health (MOH) to implement and manage an efficient integrated national logistics management system in 75 districts based upon a workplan already developed by JSI and LMD and currently being implemented. JSI will also provide a Child Survival Advisor who is a medical doctor with extensive experience working in the health sector in Nepal and who has fluency in spoken Nepali. The Child Survival Advisor has responsibility for technical input to the MOH's National Control of Diarrheal Disease (CDD), Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) and Female Community Health Volunteer (FCHV) programs. The expatriate technical advisors will be teamed with local technical consultants at the central level. The contractor will provide 48 man-months of long-term expatriate advisory services for two years, 3 man-months of short-term advisory services intermittently over two years; 80 man-months of local consultants; and 408 man-months of local technical consultants based in five regional centers. In addition, contractor will provide 260 man-months of administrative support staff. A cost reimbursement contract is expected under the authority under FAR Part 6.302-1 Circumstances Permitting Other than Full and Open Competition unless, the Contracting Officer determines that more than one source can meet the Government's needs, as a result of this notice. To respond to this notice and to be considered, offerors must see Numbered Notes 22 and 25 and must strictly comply with the submission instruction and requirements. All responsible sources may submit an expression of interest which must include capability statements. USAID/Nepal will not respond to requests nor consider proposals that do not comply with the submission requirements. It is the sole responsiblity of offerors to ensure that their expression of interest and all necessary documents reach the Contracting Office, USAID/Nepal, G.P.O. Box 5653, Kalimati Durbar, Kathmandu, Nepal, not later than 45 days from the date of this notice in CBD and before the USAID/Nepal close of business. (0364)

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