To award a five year contract for the implementation of food security activities in Nepal.
Added: Apr 27, 2012 6:04 am
Sollicitation Number: SOL-367-12-000004 Sollicitation Type: Pre-Solicitation Notice Project Title: Feed the Future (FTF) Component A and B Agency: United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Office: USAID/Nepal Location: Kathmandu Place of Performance: Nepal Estimated price: $20,000,000 to $24,000,000 Tentative Solicitation Date: May 2012 Tentative Proposal Due Date: June 2012 Estimated Period of Performance: December 31, 2012 - December 30, 2017 Small Business Considerations: This contract is not restricted to small businesses.Source/Origin/Nationality: The authorized geographic code for the procurement of goods and services under this award is 937, which is defined as the United States, the cooperating/recipient country, and developing countries other than advanced developing countries, and excluding prohibited sources. This means that the prime contractor must be of U.S., cooperating/recipient country or developing country nationality. USAID maintains a list of developing countries, advanced developing countries, and prohibited sources, which is available in USAID's Automated Directives System, ADS 310. Description of Proposed Work: The purpose of this pre-solicitation notice is to notify that the U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (USAID) Mission to Nepal intends to award a five-year contract through full and open competition for the implementation of food security activities in Nepal. The first year of this activity will concentrate efforts on approximately 10 districts (located in the Mid-West and Far West regions). Years two through five will add approximately another ten districts for an approximate total of 16 to 20 districts (in the Mid-West and Far West regions and possibly the Western region).USAID/Nepal has developed a food security project that responds to the objectives of USAID's Feed the Future (FTF) Presidential Initiative as well as the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) country plan led by the Government of Nepal. The overall goal of this FTF project is to reduce hunger and poverty while improving nutrition in Nepal. The FTF project purpose, which contributes to the achievement of this goal, is to increase agricultural productivity and income, improve nutritional status of women and children under five, and increase resilience of vulnerable communities and households. The project has three primary and integrated components as well as numerous supporting activities. Some of the supporting activities are currently ongoing and some have yet to be implemented. The three primary and integrated components focus on: A) agricultural productivity, B) nutrition, and C) skills development (literacy, numeracy, and entrepreneurial skills). The Contractor must implement component A and B. A separate award will be made to a Nepali organization to implement component C, but the Contractor must effectively integrate component C, as well as the other supporting activities and the GAFSP, into the project. Additionally, the Contractor must build the financial, fiduciary, organizational and technical capacity of Nepali organizations. More specifically, the Contractor must build the capacity of selected Nepali organizations so these Nepali organizations can competitively apply for USAID direct awards. Also, the Contractor must hand over certain geographic project responsibilities to a Nepali organization or consortium of Nepali organizations beginning in year 3 of the project, and must hand over an increasing amount of geographic project responsibilities to the Nepali organization or consortium in years 4 and 5. A separate award process will begin in year 2 of the project to select the Nepali organization or consortium that will implement the portions of the project the Contractor will hand over. The Contractor must continue to integrate and complement the activities of the Nepali organization or consortium after the Contractor hands over specified geographic project responsibilities. It is estimated that the RFP for FTF Component A and B will be issued in May 2012 on www.fedbizopps.gov barring any unforeseeable delays. USAID will not entertain questions until after the RFP is issued. When the RFP is issued, any amendments thereof will be posted at www.fedbizopps.gov. Interested parties are advised to periodically monitor the above website for updates concerning this procurement.To view a brief power point presentation on FTF, please go to USAID/Nepal's public website http://nepal.usaid.gov/. The power point presentation should be listed in the "In the Spotlight" section of the homepage. Interested parties are advised to periodically monitor USAID/Nepal's public website for possible updates or new information.Prospective Offerors are advised that this procurement is subject to the availability of funds. This pre-solicitation notice in no way obligates USAID to award a Contract nor does it commit USAID to pay any cost incurred in the preparation and submission of a proposal.
SOL-367-12-000004 US Agency for International Development Nepal
4/27/12, 6:04 AM 1020--test purposes
The Department of Veterans Affairs National Acquisition Center is seeking proposals for unspecified products or services under NAICS code 111211 - Potato Farming. This Combined Synopsis/Solicitation Notice, 36C10C24Q0021, titled "1020--test purposes", requires a response by April 26, 2024 at 10:00 Eastern Time. The procurement does not appear to be Recovery Act funded, and there is no small business set-aside designation. The contracting office is located in zip code 20109, and the point of contact is Kevin D Gordon.
This appears to be a template or example solicitation for testing purposes only, as the description states "Test purposes only". There are no details provided on evaluation criteria, award values, quantities, or the place of performance. Additionally, no potential incumbents or current contractors are named.
36C10C24Q0021 Department of Veterans Affairs National Acquisition Center
4/25/24, 11:05 PM X-ray Correlation Spectroscopy (XCS) Instrument Diffractometer System
Added: May 06, 2009 12:56 pm
This notice is issued by The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, located in Menlo Park, California. We are soliciting responses from interested parties to provide all personnel, materials, equipment, facilities and services required to complete engineering, design, documentation, fabrication, assembly, installation and acceptance testing of the X-ray Correlation Spectroscopy (XCS) Instrument Diffractometer System. The LCLS-LUSI XCS diffractometer system will be used to precisely control the physical location and orientation of a sample but also align the sample in the x-ray beam. The nature of the LCLS-LUSI XCS Instrument requires an extraordinary level of flexibility and accuracy from the diffractometer system. The diffractometer consists of two major components, the sample goniometer (purpose of this document) and a local detector (provided by SLAC, but its motion is included in this scope of this document) to aid the alignment of the sample in the x-ray beam. The sample goniometer must have the ability to position the sample within two widely separated interaction point regions. The system must incorporate features to enable the use of future sample vacuum environments such as a cryostat or cryo-stream. The diffractometer system design must enable rapid reconfiguration to maximize science output. Vendors interested in performing this requirement are invited to provide the following information to SLAC Purchasing Office no later than 20 May 2009. The information may be submitted via email to the Contract Administrator at johne@slac.stanford.edu or faxed to 650-926-8785. Responses shall include the following information: Reference number XCS_DIFF052009, Company name, DUNS Number, address, point of contact, phone number and email address; business size, disadvantage, 8(a), or HUBzone status; and , Evidence that the contractor has performed similar projects (past performance history). NO TELEPHONE OR WRITTEN REQUESTS FOR SOLICITATIONS OR POSTING STATUS. This posting is for information and planning purposes and is not to be construed as commitment by SLAC nor will SLAC pay for information solicited. No basis for claim against SLAC shall arise as a result from a response to the Sources Sought or SLAC use of any information provided. SLAC reserves the right to consider a small business, 8(a) or any other set aside arrangement as deemed appropriate for this procurement.
XCS_DIFF052009 Department of Energy Office of Science
5/6/09, 12:56 PM 8915--Community Supported Agriculture Shares
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Health Administration intends to award a sole source contract for Community Shared Agriculture (CSA) shares to Willing Hands Enterprises. The VA seeks to procure CSA shares to be provided to the VA Medical Center in White River Junction, Vermont. The authority for this sole source procurement is FAR 6.302-1, as the VA has determined Willing Hands Enterprises (UEI: RNMYYDZ8X4F9) is the only responsible source. Interested parties may contact the VA Contract Specialist, Richard Matthiesen, by email. Responses must be received by May 6, 2024 at 1:00 PM Eastern Time.
This procurement is not set-aside. The NAICS code is 111219 with a $3.5M size standard, and the PSC/FSC is 8915. No solicitation will be posted to Contracting Opportunities SAM.gov, as the VA intends to negotiate a sole source contract with Willing Hands Enterprises. No budget or award value information is provided in the notice.
36C24124Q0376 Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 1
5/2/24, 10:04 AM