POC Della Glenn, USTDA, 1621 N. Kent Street, Suite 300, Arlington, VA 22209-2131, Tel: (703) 875-4357, Fax: (703) 875-4009

R -- PROCUREMENT ADVISOR TO THE MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY IN CYBERJAYA, MALAYSIA- TDA-Q-018 POC POC Della Glenn, USTDA, 1621 N. Kent Street, Suite 300, Arlington, VA 22209-2131, Tel: (703) 875-4357, Fax: (703) 875-4009 The U.S. Trade and Development Agency (TDA) wishes to announce a Competitive Total Set-Aside for a Small Business or an individual engineer to serve as a Procurement Advisor to the Multimedia University in Cyberjaya, Malaysia. The assignment will be for approximately forty five days with thirty days to be spent in Malaysia. The Advisor should be ready to travel to Malaysia in the third week of March, 1998. This contractor will assist the Dean of the Multimedia University in Cyberjaya, Malaysia as well as professors in various departments to specify equipment for the teaching laboratories in the new university. The purpose of such assistance is to help U.S. industry compete for this major procurement opportunity and to provide the foreign entity with expert engineering and technical advice. TDA will competitively select a contractor to provide the assistance. A general scope of services for this contract follows; -- Specifications for equipment to be procured for the Faculty of Multimedia Arts and Sciences, Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Infrastructure Development. -- The Advisor will also advise the Multimedia University on U.S. professors to teach in these faculties. -- The Advisor will provide a list of companies that Multimedia University faculty members should meet with and site visits that should be included during an Orientation Visit to the U.S. scheduled for the first two weeks in May, 1998. In performing this assignment, the contractor will have to consult with various persons in the information technology industry in the U.S. as needed, work closely with appropriate faculty members in the Multimedia University, maintain close contact with the Commercial Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur and TDA's Country Manager for Malaysia. The deliverable for this assignment will be rendition of procurement advice as required in the scope of services and a report including a comprehensive list of equipment and services to be procured by the University in the first phase and anticipated procurements in following phases with approximate timelines. TDA, located in the Washington, D.C. area, is a commercially-oriented U.S. Government export promotion agency that helps U.S. companies pursue overseas business opportunities. Through the funding of feasibility studies, orientation visits, training grants, and various forms of technical assistance, TDA enables American businesses to become involved in the planning stage of infrastructure and industrial projects in middle-income and developing countries. The Small Business Act, at 15 U.S.C. 644, authorizes procuring agencies to set aside procurements or portions of procurements for the exclusive participation of Small Business Concerns. The Sic Code for this procurement is 8711 -- Services, N.E.C. Definition: "Small business concerns" for purposes of TDA award of this total set aside contract means a concern, including its affiliates, that is independently owned and operated, not dominant in the field of operation for which it is bidding. In determining whether dominance exists for TDA's purpose for this contract, consideration is given to annual gross receipts. Any concern that has annual gross receipts above $5 million dollars, averaged over a three year period, is not considered small and is therefore, NOT eligible for award under this contract. All participating organizations involved with supplying professional services must be incorporated or chartered in the United States. Consultants planning teaming arrangements must be U.S. citizens or resident aliens. In accordance with FAR 19.301, offerors will be required to submit self certification relating to business size. The competitive proposals method of solicitation as set forth in Part 15 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) (48 CFR Chapter 1) shall be utilized for this procurement. This solicitation in no way obligates TDA to award a contract, nor does it commit TDA to pay any cost incurred in the preparation and submission of the proposal. Any explanation desired by an offeror regarding the meaning or interpretation of this solicitation must be requested in writing and with sufficient time allowed for reply to reach the offerors before submission of their offers. All oral explanations or instruction, given before award of this contract will not be binding. Any information given to a prospective offeror concerning the solicitation will be furnished promptly to all prospective offerors as an amendment of the solicitation, if such information is necessary to offerors submitting proposals or if lack of such information would be prejudicial to uninformed offerors. The Request for Proposal (RFP) will be issued on or about (15) fifteen days after the publication date of this synopsis. Closing date will be on or about twenty-one (21) days thereafter. Only written requests for the RFP that indicate the businesses size will be honored. U.S. eligible small businesses interested in receiving the RFP should send a fax requesting it to Della Glenn at (703) 875-4009 or a letter by U.S. mail to Ms. Glenn at U.S. Trade and Development Agency (TDA), Contracts Unit, Suite 300, 1621 N. Kent Street, Arlington, VA 22209-2131. Telephonic requests, other than fax, will not be accepted. (0028)

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