USAID/South Africa, Pretoria, Department of State, Washington, D.C. 20521-9300

R -- EQUITY IN INTEGRATED PRIMARY HEALTH CARE, PROJECT NO. 674-0320 SOL RFP 674-96-P-001 DUE 071596 POC Contact Point - John P. McAvoy and Lynne Kruger, USAID/South Africa, Tele No. (27) (12) 323-8869 ext. 453, Fax no. (27) (12) 323-6443. Correction: This notice originally publicized in the CBD dated 4/2/96 inadvertently had text of a synopsis from USAID/Haiti. The correct text for USAID/Pretoria follows: USAID/South Africa plans to issue a full and open competition solicitation under the Equity in Integrated Primary Health Care Project, for an initial 5 year period, to obtain a contractor to provide technical assistance, commodity procurement, in-country training, and possibly overseas participant training, to assist South Africa's Government of National Unity (GNU) to develop a more equitable and effective system for providing integrated primary health care (PHC) services to underserved populations. The contract will provide support to make the strengthened system operational in one ''focus province,'' and concurrently, will assist GNU central and provincial authorities to utilize the lessons learned in the focus province to replicate the system nationwide. The contract will further assist the GNU to achieve six major outputs over the project period, both in the focus province, and, in most, if not all of the remaining eight provinces: (1 increase access to an integrated package of PHC services, (2) develop an effective referral system, (3) enhance public-sector capacity to manage the integrated PHC program down to the community level, (4) improve the efficiency and effectiveness of PHC delivery, (5) institutionalize the capacity for effective PHC training, and (6) improve the information base for decision-making, program development, management, and monitoring and evaluation. Contract will be negotiated on a cost plus, performance-based, contracting mode. It will contain a two-year option renewal, and the option will be priced in the initial competition, but will utilize an economic price adjustment methodology. Expected start date of contract services is November 1, 1996. Solicitation is anticipated to be released on or about April 15, 1996. USAID encourages the participation to the maximum extent possible of Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Business, and Women-owned concerns in this activity as prime or subcontractors in accordance with Part 19 of the FAR. In this respect, it is anticipated that the prime contractor(s) will make every reasonable effort to identify and make maximum practicable use of such concerns. To help identify potential subcontractors, a list of all organizations requesting a copy of the solicitation will be included with each solicitation issued. By providing the list, USAID does not endorse the listed organizations as being capable of carrying out the activity, nor does AID 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 solicitation. 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 (Word Perfect 5.1/5.2 format). Offerors requesting a copy of the RFP should specify if they prefer a hard copy or a diskette. 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. From there, choose the heading USAID PROCUREMENTS and then DOWNLOAD AVAILABLE USAID SOLICITATIONS. The RFP can also be downloaded via Anonymous 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/6746P001/6746p001.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. (0093)

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