U. S. Agency for International Development, AMEMB. Managua, USAID, Unit #2712 Box #9, APO AA 34021

L -- PVO CO-FINANCING; MICROENTERPRISE (524-0313) SOL USAID/Nicaragua 95-13 DUE 091595 Contact Point. Mr. Michael Kenyon, Contracts Officer, USAID/Nicaragua, Tel. No. 505-2-670-502/3/4. The Mission to Nicaragua is soliciting applications from requistered U.S. private voluntary organizations (PVOs) with experience in providing microenterprise credit and support servies to implement a new microenterprise development project in Nicaragua. The project seeks to provide essential support services to mature microenterprises or small businesses whose resource requirements are greater than that which can be satisfied by existing proverty lending programs. U.S. PVOs registered with USAID are invited to apply for a Cooperative Agreement. This project will form part of the Mission's PVO Co-Financing project which has been ongoing since April, 1992 and has a project activities completion Date of June 30, 1998. The Standard Industrial Classification Code for this procurement is 8741. This CBD notice can be viewed and downloaded using the Agency Gopher. The RFA once issued, can be downloaded from the Agency Gopher. The Gopher address is GOPHER.INFO.USAID.GOV. Select USAID Procurement and Business Opportunities from the Gopher menu. The RFA text can be downloaded via Anonymous File Transfer Protocol (FTP). The FTP address is FTP.INFO.USAID.GOV. Logon on using the user identification of ''anonymous'' and the password is your e-mail address. Look under the following directory for the RFA: pub/OP/RFA/5249513/5249513.rfa. Receipt of this RFA through INTERNET must be confirmed by written notification to the contact person noted above. It is the responsibility of the recipient of this application document to ensure that it has been received from INTERNET in its entirety and USAID bears no responsibility for data error resulting from transmission of conversion processes.'' (0192)

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