USAID/Philippines APO San Francisco 96440 or USAID/Philippines - RMC Building, 1680 Roxas Boulevard, Manila, Philippines 1000

R -- TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR ELECTRICITY SUB-TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION SECTOR RATIONALIZATION SOL USAID/PHILIPPINES 492-97-001 DUE 010697 POC Contact Person, MA. Rosario M. Arenas (Acquistion Specialist) (Neil C. Edin is the Contracting Officer) USAID/Philippines, Tel No. (0632) 522-44-11 Ext. 3460/3403) Fax No. (0632) 522-4337. The Philippines' Department of Energy (DOE) through the National Electrification Administration (NEA) has requested USAID for technical assistance in the restructuring of the eletricity transmission and distribution sector. This work will be conducted in the Visayan Islands of Cebu, Panay and Negros. The purpose of the study is to determine appropriate groupings of Electric cooperatives and private utilities to make them more efficient to serve existing needs and projected loads. The scope of work for this activity includes: (1) Review of the technical, operational, financial and institutional constraints or factors that would affect joint actions or possible consolidation of operations by these groups or members of these groups; (2) identify options for joint actions, and their respective policy, legal, institutional, financial and technical issues; and, (3) based on the above work, assist the utilities to develop action plans for implementing agreed upon actions or consolidations. Work is estimated to be completed within a period of 6 months. A firm-fixed price contract is comtemplated for arrival. Detailed information about this solicitation is contained in the RFP documents which will be available on or about November 15, 1996. To obtain the RFP, send your written request to the Office of Regional Procurement, USAID/Philippines, APO AP 96440, or Office of Regional Procurement, USAID/Philippines, RMC Building, 1680 Roxas Boulevard, Manila, Philippines 1000. Our telephone and fax numbers are (632) 5224411 (Ext. 3403) and (632) 522-4337, respectively. The estimated deadline for submission of proposal is January 6, 1997. This CBD notice can be viewed and downloaded using the Agency Gopher. The RFP, 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. The RFP text can 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 RFP: pub/OP/RFP/4929602/4929602.rfp. Receipt of this RFP 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. (0292)

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