SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- Nigeria - Solar Powered Communications Towers Technical Assistance
- Notice Date
- 3/2/2010
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541690
— Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- United States Trade and Development Agency, USTDA, USTDA, 1000 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1600, C/O US TDA 1000 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1600, Arlington, Virginia, 22209-3901
- ZIP Code
- 22209-3901
- Solicitation Number
- 2010-11008A
- Archive Date
- 4/17/2010
- Point of Contact
- Nina Patel, Phone: (703) 875-4357
- E-Mail Address
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npatel@ustda.gov
(npatel@ustda.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- POC Nina Patel, USTDA 1000 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1600 Arlington, VA 22209-3901 Tel: (703) 875-4357 Fax: (703) 875-4009 ***Please do not contact contracts office*** William Saad Managing Director, IHS (Nigeria) Plc. 19 Bishop Aboyade Cole Street P.M.B. 80167, Victoria Island Lagos, Nigeria Phone: +234 12 800 790 Email: william@ihsnigeria.com The Grantee, IHS (Nigeria) Plc., invites submission of qualifications and proposal data (collectively referred to as the "Proposal") from interested U.S. firms that are qualified on the basis of experience and capability to develop a feasibility study for the Solar Powered Communications Towers Technical Assistance Project. The Grantee is a publicly traded Nigerian company that serves as a neutral third-party infrastructure manager, making it possible for competing telecommunications operators to collocate their equipment, a practice which translates into significant cost savings. The Grantee constructs communications towers, buys existing towers, leases tower space to clients, and manages tower sites on clients' behalf. In order to guarantee their customers adequate, uninterrupted power, the Grantee powers all of its sites with diesel generators. Sites must be refueled on a weekly basis, which accounts for over 50% of the Grantee's operating costs. This dependence also exposes the Grantee to market fluctuations in the price of diesel fuel, making cost management and financial forecasting extremely difficult. To mitigate the vulnerability and high costs associated with diesel generation, the Grantee is interested in deploying solar power and other alternative energy solutions at its tower sites. This Technical Assistance is intended to assist the Grantee in evaluating energy alternatives, developing performance specifications for its tower sites, and arranging a technical visit to the United States for the Grantee to meet with U.S. companies offering renewable energy solutions. The Grantee hopes to use this opportunity to attract a U.S. company to establish a pilot demonstration at one of its tower sites in Nigeria in order to verify the proposed solutions' technical viability and cost savings in the Grantee's operating environment, and to develop an implementation plan for scaling up the solution to a larger number of the Grantee's tower sites. The U.S. firm selected will be paid in U.S. dollars from a $162,000 grant to the Grantee from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA). A detailed Request for Proposals (RFP), which includes requirements for the Proposal, the Terms of Reference, and a background definitional mission report are available from USTDA, at 1000 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1600, Arlington, VA 22209-3901. To request the RFP in PDF format, please go to: https://www.ustda.gov/businessopps/rfpform.asp Requests for a mailed hardcopy version of the RFP may also be faxed to the IRC, USTDA at 703-875-4009. In the fax, please include your firm's name, contact person, address, and telephone number. Some firms have found that RFP materials sent by U.S. mail do not reach them in time for preparation of an adequate response. Firms that want USTDA to use an overnight delivery service should include the name of the delivery service and your firm's account number in the request for the RFP. Firms that want to send a courier to USTDA to retrieve the RFP should allow one hour after faxing the request to USTDA before scheduling a pick-up. Please note that no telephone requests for the RFP will be honored. Please check your internal fax verification receipt. Because of the large number of RFP requests, USTDA cannot respond to requests for fax verification. Requests for RFPs received before 4:00 PM will be mailed the same day. Requests received after 4:00 PM will be mailed the following day. Please check with your courier and/or mail room before calling USTDA. Only U.S. firms and individuals may bid on this USTDA financed activity. Interested firms, their subcontractors and employees of all participants must qualify under USTDA's nationality requirements as of the due date for submission of qualifications and proposals and, if selected to carry out the USTDA-financed activity, must continue to meet such requirements throughout the duration of the USTDA-financed activity. All goods and services to be provided by the selected firm shall have their nationality, source and origin in the U.S. or host country. The U.S. firm may use subcontractors from the host country for up to 20 percent of the USTDA grant amount. Details of USTDA's nationality requirements and mandatory contract clauses are also included in the RFP. Interested U.S. firms should submit their Proposal electronically, in English directly to the Grantee by 4:00 p.m. local time on April 2, 2010 at the above e-mail address. Evaluation criteria for the Proposal are included in the RFP. Price will not be a factor in contractor selection, and therefore, cost proposals should NOT be submitted. The Grantee reserves the right to reject any and/or all Proposals. The Grantee also reserves the right to contract with the selected firm for subsequent work related to the project. The Grantee is not bound to pay for any costs associated with the preparation and submission of Proposals.
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