USAID; Regional Center for Southern Africa/Gaborone, Botswana; Department of State; Washington, DC 20521-2170

R -- SOUTHERN AFRICA REGIONAL NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT PROJECT (NRMP); BOTSWANA COMPONENT POC Jay M. Bergman; Regional Contracting Officer; USAID/RCSA, Department of State; Washington, DC 20521-2170; Telephone: 011-267-324449; Fax: 011-267-324486; E-Mail: jbergman@usaid.gov. The United States Agency for International Development/Regional Center for Southern Africa (USAID/RCSA) in Gaborone, Botswana plans to extend an existing contract with Chemonics International, Inc. for two years, from 31 Aug 97 to 31 Aug 99, and noncompetitively increase the level-of-effort (LOE). The authority for this noncompetitive procurement action is AIDAR 706.302-70 (Impairment of Foreign Assistance Objectives), as implemented in USAID Contract Information Bulletin (CIB) 96-13. The rationale is that use of any other source for the continued provision of the highly specialized services would result in substantial additional costs and unacceptable delays to USAID as the existing contract team is demobilized, a new team is mobilized, and new relationships between the new team and host government and community officials are developed and established. The Botswana component of the NRMP provides technical support to the Government of Botswana and directly to communities in institutional capacity-building, policy support, human resource development, wildlife management, curriculum development, NGO support, applied planning and research to demonstrate the viability of community-based natural resource management. The contract team consists of technical experts in natural resource economics, extension, wildlife utilization, anthropology, monitoring and evaluation, human resource development, curriculum development and wildlife management training. The team has intimate knowledge and acceptance after long-term contacts with the specific communities collaborating in the Project. No RFP will be issued, but all responsible sources may express their interest in, and qualifications for, providing the services which shall be considered by USAID. Such responses must be submitted to the address located above not later than 45 days from the date of this notice. See Note 22. (0009)

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