United States Agency for International Development USAID/Egypt, Directorate of Procurement (D/PROC), 6th Floor, Unit 64902 APO AE 09839-4902

R -- TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE/SUPPORT TO THE MINISTRIES OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND SUPPLY FOR STRENGTHENING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS SOL RFP No. 263-95-P-073 POC Contact Point: Anne L. Terio, Contracting Officer, USAID/Egypt, Tel: 011-20-2-357-3257, Fax: 011-20-2-356-2932 The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), acting through the USAID Mission to Egypt (USAID/Egypt), is seeking proposals from qualified U.S. firms/joint ventures for a three-year cost-plus-fixed-fee with a two year option for Technical Support Primarily to the Ministries of Scientific Research and Supply. This Request for Proposals (RFP) will be a performance based, results oriented type contract. This activity seeks to strengthen Egypt's Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection, specifically in the area of industrial property. The overall objective is to help bring Egypt's IPR protection in line with GATT standards and create a more positive environment for investment and domestic innovation. This will require the services of a long term team of advisers, both expatriate and Egyptian, to work primarily on issues relating to intellectual property rights. The team will include approximately two expatriate advisors and three local long term and a number of short term Egyptian experts together with support personnel. The contractor will be expected to carry out a number of tasks at strengthening Egypt's IPR system. The team will be expected to: 1) work with the Government of Egypt on IPR-related issues and training; 2) the preparation of guidelines for the examination of marks and patent design; 3) development and implementation of plans to modernize Egypt's industrial property offices, including procurement of commodities to support this modernization; and 4) provide advice regarding the organization and management of industrial property offices and the drafting of IPR legislation. Contractor's personnel will work in the Ministries' offices in Cairo, Egypt. The Contractor's personnel staff will have experience and education to support the required deliverables. Prospective offerors may request RFP-263-95-P-073, ''Assistance for Strengthening Intellectual Property Rights'', in writing, from: Anne L. Terio, Contracting Officer, USAID/Ciro, Unit 64902, APO AE 09839-4902. Courier Service requests should be sent to: Anne L. Terio, Contracting Officer, U.S. Agency for International Development, 106 Kasr El Aini Street, Cairo Center Bldg., 6th Floor, Cairo, Egypt. Telephone requests will not be honored. The proposed contract listed here will be awarded under full and open competition. To help identify potential subcontractors, a list of all organizations requesting a copy of the RFP will be sent with each RFP document. By providing the list, USAID does not endorse the listed organizations as being capable of carrying out the activity, nor does USAID verify the claimed status of the organizations. Necessarily, the list will contain the names of only those organizations known prior to the issuance of the RFP document. In accordance with FAR 52.219-9), subcontracting plans should be included in proposals submitted . Issuance date of the RFP will be around the beginning of November. Closing date for receiving proposals will be forty-five (45) days thereafter. When writing, calling or faxing, be prepared to state name, address, and solicitation number. All Responsible sources may submit an offer which will be considered. If a joint venture seeks proposal, information must be supplied with respect to all firms in the joint venture. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) encourages the participation to the maximum extent possible of small business concerns, small disadvantaged business concerns and women-owned small business concerns in this activity as prime contractors or subcontractors in accordance with Part 19 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation. In this respect, it is anticipated that the prime contractor will make every reasonable effort to identify and make maximum practicable use of such concerns. All other evaluation criteria being found equal, the participation of such concerns may become a determining factor for selection. This CBD notice can be viewed and 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 Procurement and Business Opportunities from the Gopher menu. The RFP 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. Lok under the following directory for the RFP: pub/OP/RFP/26395P073/26395p073.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 the INTERNET in its entirety and USAID bears no responsibility for data errors resulting from transmission or conversion processes. (0269)

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