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R -- PROFESSIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE AND MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SERVICES SOL El Salvador 98-012 DUE 032098 POC Contact Point: Marielos de Quinonez, (503)298-1666, e-mail: mquinonez@usaid.gov; Contracting Officer: Leonel T. Pizarro The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission to El Salvador is seeking proposals from qualified US organizations interested in providing technical assistance for the implementation of the Rural Financial Markets (RFM) Activity. The estimate for performance of the work required falls within a range from $8,000,000 to 12,000,000. RFM is a five-year effort aimed at providing technical assistance to rurally-focused financial institutions in El Salvador, serving the microenterprise sector, to help them obtain self-sustainability by improving their financial performance, and to expand and deepen coverage of financial services to rural, poverty level microentrepreneurs. The Contractor selected under this RFP will be expected to provide these services and accomplish the expected results throughout the life of the Activity. Subcontracting with Gray Amendment entities is encouraged to the maximum extent practivable. To help identify potential subcontractors, a list of all organizations requesting a copy of the solicitation document will be sent with each solicitation document. Organizations are encouraged to indicate whether they are Gray Amendment entities when requesting the solicitation and may indicate that they do not wish to be included on the list, USAID does not endorse the listed organizations of being capable of carring out the activity, nor does USAID verify the claimed status of the organizations. Necessarily, the list will contain the names of only those known prior to the issuance of the solicitation document. RFP-El Sal 98-012 will be available on or after February 5, 1998. Interested organizations may receive a copy by written request only; i.e., fax (503)298-2155 or letter to Contracting Officer, USAID/ES/OCG, Amembassy-USAID, Unit 3110, APO AA 34023. Although it will not take the place of the hard copy distribution, the preferred method of distributing USAID procurement information is via the Internet or by written request of the solicitation on a 3.5" floppy disk (Wordperfect 5.2). This CBD notice can be downloaded using the Agency Web Site. The worldwide web address is http://www.info.usaid.gov. Select Business and Procurement Opportunities from the page, then "USAID Procurements." On the following screen, select Download Available USAID Solicitations." Look under the following directory for the RFP: pub/op/rfp/sal8012/sal8012.rfp. Receipt of this RFP through Internet must be confirmed by written notivication to the contact person noted above. It is the responsibility of the recipient of this solicitation document that it has been received from internet in its entirety and USAID bears no responsibility for data errors resulting from transmission or conversion processes. (0030)

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