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T -- OFFSET PRINTING, BINDERY AND COMPOSITION SERVICES SOL OP/IFB/AFAO603 POC Contact Loretta King, (703) 875-1062 (email: lking@USAID.GOV)/Contracting Officer Rosella Marshall, (703) 875-1132. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) seeks to award up to two indefinite quantity contracts for offset printing, bindery, and composition services. USAID contemplates that its printing needs for the next 18 months will total approximately $400,000 and may award one contract for $400,000 or two contracts at $200,000 each with a minimum contract amount of $10,000. The contractor must have sufficient facilities and equipment including: layout and make-ready facilities, offset photographic equipment, offset presses, bindery equipment with delivery and storage facilities, and composition equipment that will provide the needs under the contract. The contract will cover full services. Delivery orders may be issued for the printing of forms, pamphlets, booklets, and many miscellaneous items. The contractor will be required to pick up all copy from the New State Building, 320 Twenty-first Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. and deliver the finished work to locations specified in the delivery order including multiple deliveries within the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area. Production area, assumed 50 mile radius of zero milestone, Washington, D.C. It is estimated that an IFB will be issued on or about May 10, 1996 with a closing date of June 11, 1996. 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 Gopher. The IFB, 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 IFB can also 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 IFB: pub/OP/IFB/FAO603/fao603.ifb. Receipt of this IFB 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. Offerors requesting hard copies should supply three self-addressed mailing labels for the solicitation and any amendments that may be issued. The SIC Code is 2752 and the small business size standard is 500 employees. See Numbered Note 1. (0094)

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