A0001.Attachment_1_-_Statement_of_Work_-_TC.docx

U.S. Department of State

RFQ #: 191NLE-19-Q-0051

Attachment 1 – Statement of Work (SOW)

I. PROGRAM BACKGROUND

Mission of the U.S. Department of State: The U.S. Department of State is the lead institution for the conduct of American diplomacy and the Secretary of State is the President’s principal foreign policy advisor. The Department of State’s mission is to advance U.S. national security interests, fight terrorism, protect U.S. interests abroad, and implement foreign policy initiatives that build a freer, prosperous and secure world.

Mission of the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs: INL is under the Under Secretary for Democracy and Human Rights (J) and works to keeps Americans safe at home by countering international crime, illegal drugs, and instability abroad. INL helps countries deliver justice and fairness by strengthening their police, courts, and corrections systems. These efforts reduce the amount of crime and illegal drugs reaching U.S. shores.

At its closest point, The Bahamas is less than 50 miles from the United States. Between five and six million Americans visit The Bahamas every year and thousands are residents. The Bahamas faces significant challenges in providing security to its 377,000 residents. Violent crime is a major concern, threatening the safety of residents and visitors. Addressing our shared regional security challenges remains the U.S. Embassy’s highest goal. The U.S. Government, through the U.S. Embassy Nassau, is committed to assisting The Bahamas Government in increasing citizen security.

The main partner of INL in The Bahamas is the Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF). Increasing the professionalization of their RBPF officers is a key component of this mission. INL Nassau aims to assist the RBPF, the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), and the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to bolster their criminal financial investigation capabilities and to increase their rate of successful prosecutions of financial crimes and corruption. This includes training with a focus on the development and implementation of a law enforcement financial investigation framework, designed to increase the capacity of the RBPF to investigate matters of serious financial fraud and public corruption. One of the key areas of focus for these trainings pertains to criminal financial intelligence analysis. The intelligence analyst role is to collect, evaluate, and compile information in support of a specific investigation and to prepare a case for prosecution based on the results of the investigation. Capacity building is necessarily a two-fold process to meet both immediate challenges and longer-term needs, which involves helping to build stronger institutions to provide needed capacity while raising the professional skills of law enforcement personnel. The primary goal of the training is to professionalize and enhance the practice of criminal financial forensic accounting within the law enforcement/criminal justice sector, assist in the building of specific real time cases, and develop and facilitate sustainable bilateral U.S.-Bahamas law enforcement relationships to address immediate challenges at the operational level.

II. SCOPE OF WORK

The scope of this project includes the development and delivery of comprehensive Financial Forensic Accounting and Investigative/Analysis Courses as well as in-person mentoring and assistance in case preparation from highly experienced subject matter experts. Within 30 days of award of the contract, the contractor will spend one week in Nassau embedded with the RBPF unit to develop a training needs assessments, which will inform the first training increments described herein. The Offeror shall determine the most effective compliment of personnel to develop the needs assessment with budgetary efficiencies in mind. Delivery of the training/mentoring/case preparation program (hereafter referred to as the training session) will be provided in three-week increments, three (3) times per year during the yearlong period of performance. Each training session will consist of one (1) week of contractor-developed training, one (1) week of in-person mentoring, and one (1) week of assistance with case preparation based on actual cases awaiting adjudication. While the essential framework of the curriculum will be consistent (that is, one training course shall be developed), it will be updated/improved as necessary, based on an assessment of the efficacy of course session outcomes. Furthermore, the curriculum may be adjusted to accommodate the actual cases being used. The course sessions shall be designed to equip RBPF law enforcement officials and Bahamian justice sector officials with the analytical tools, skill sets, and knowledge necessary to investigate, compile, and prosecute cases involving public corruption, money laundering, and proceeds of crime.

The Contractor shall provide training services to the RBPF that in turn give them the skills and expertise to more effectively perform their jobs. The Contractor shall provide qualified instructor staff on USG/Host Nation-provided site in Nassau, The Bahamas for at least one of the three training courses, and the Contractor shall provide qualified instructor staff to host the trainees in Miami, Florida and shall provide the training venue/site in Miami, for least one of the three trainings. The third session location - either Nassau, The Bahamas, or Miami, FL - will be determined by case-specific information. The location for the training session can be determined according to the access to information and relevant material for the case studies.

The Contractor will provide four (4) professional grade laptop computers, four (4) professional grade desktop computers, four (4) monitors, and two (2) portable scanners, and a server, all of which will be donated to the RBPF at the conclusion of the training.

The Contractor will work with teams to investigate and develop at least nine (9) different cases per period of performance equating to three (3) cases per training session, to be used during the training session. The contract will also contain two (2) year-long option periods to allow for additional courses and case development, as training needs arise.

III. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE

The period of performance will be one (1) year from contract award, with two (2) option years with three training sessions offered each year.

Please note, within each year-long period of performance, three (3) three-week training sessions will be conducted. The timeframes between the three (3) three-week training sessions will vary to accommodate the needs and schedules of the trainees. The USG will schedule the first training session. Thereafter, the following two (2) training sessions will be performed upon a 60-day notice to the Contractor. The USG seeks partnership with a Contractor who can provide the flexibility to perform upon this 60-day notice.

IV. EQUIPMENT

The Contractor will provide computer workstation equipment for the courses, as well as laptops to be used by the analysts when courses are outside Nassau. The Contractor will donate the equipment to The Bahamian government at the conclusion of this contract. Details regarding required equipment, software programs, installation, and disposition can be found in Attachment 6 – Equipment and Shipping..

All computer equipment should be able to operate Bahamas government software standards that are currently:

1. FOUR (4) LAPTOP COMPUTERS

Laptops: (Brand name or equal) Make: Lenovo, HP, Dell HD Size: 2 TB or higher Ram: 24 GB or higher OS: Windows Professional 7,8 or 10 - 64-bit Processor: Intel i7 or higher With a touch screen monitor

2. FOUR (4) DESKTOP COMPUTERS

Desktops: (Brand name or equal) Make: Lenovo, HP, Dell Model: Dell OptiPlex 7020 HD Size: 500 GB or Higher Ram: 16 GB or higher OS: Windows Professional 10 - 64-bit Processor: Intel i7 or higher

3. SOFTWARE INSTALLATION:

Windows 10, Adobe Acrobat Professional, Microsoft Office Professional, Adobe Flash Player, OmniPage Ultimate, Java and Symantec endpoint protection, Bank-Scan- Most-cost effective annual or multi-year license subscription package for eight (8) computers.

Note- the U.S. Embassy will provide IBMi2 Analyst notebook, iBase, and iBase Designer, as well as introductory training on these programs for the students.

4. FOUR MONITORS:

Model: HP, Dell, Acer, AOL, LG Size: 32" Connections: Multiple Connections

5. FILE SERVER

Processor: Zeon or better Memory: 64 Gig or better Storage: 8TB Dual socket R3 (LGA 2011) supports Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v4/ v3 family; QPI up to 9.6GT/s Up to 2TB ECC 3DS LRDIMM , up to DDR4- 2400MHz ; 16x DIMM slots 4x PCI-E 3.0 x16 slots 2x PCI-E 3.0 x8 (1 in x16) slots support Thunderbolt 2.0 AOC, 1x PCI-E 2.0 x4 (in x8) slot; Up to 4x GPU I/O ports: 1 VGA, 2 COM, 2 GbE, 10 USB 2.0, & 1 IPMI Dedicated LAN 8x 3.5″ Hot-swap, 3x Fixed 5.25″ and 1x Fixed 3.5″ Drive Bays 4x Heavy Duty Fans, 2x Exhaust Fans, and 2x Active Heatsink with Optimal Fan Speed Control 2000W High efficiency (96%) Redundant PSU; Titanium Level Tower or Rackmount GPU Kit for passive GPU/Xeon Phi support (MCP-320-74701-0N-KIT) Product Type: Server Barebone (chassis, motherboard, power supply)

6. DOPPLER PRINTER

HP Design Jet Z6800 60 in Photo Production Printer (or equivalent) One Set of Ink Cartridges 8 (Chromatic red, magenta, yellow, light cyan, light gray, light magenta, matte black, photo black) One Roll of Paper (60’x200ft)

Normal: 2.1 min/page on A1/D or up to 19.7 m²/hr (212 ft²/hr) on glossy media

Media

Connectivity

PostScript Windows and Mac drivers with optional PostScript/PDF Upgrade Kit

7. SCANNERS

Two Fuji ScanSnap S1300i (or equivalent)

General Technical Specifications

Scanning Speed( HYPERLINK "http://www.fujitsu.com/us/products/computing/peripheral/scanners/scansnap/s1300i/" \l "footnote1" 1) (A4 portrait / AC adapter)

6 pages per minute / 12 images per minute

12 pages per minute / 24 images per minute

9 pages per minute / 18 images per minute

6 pages per minute / 12 images per minute

1 page per minute / 2 images per minute

Scanning Speed( HYPERLINK "http://www.fujitsu.com/us/products/computing/peripheral/scanners/scansnap/s1300i/" \l "footnote1" 1) (A4 portrait / USB bus power)( HYPERLINK "http://www.fujitsu.com/us/products/computing/peripheral/scanners/scansnap/s1300i/" \l "footnote2" 2)

2 pages per minute / 4 pages per minute

4 pages per minute / 8 images per minute

3 pages per minute / 6 images per minute

2 pages per minute / 4 images per minute

1 page per minute / 2 images per minute

Standby: Less than 2.6 W

Standby: Less than 2 W

Prior to the first training, the equipment will be delivered to the RBPF facility in Nassau. The participants will bring the four (4) laptop computers with them for the training courses hosted in Florida.

V. PLACE OF PERFORMANCE

The training sessions are to be conducted at an RBPF facility in Nassau, The Bahamas, and in a contractor-provided facility in Miami, Florida, United States.

VI. PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

The Contractor shall use actual, current cases to develop curriculum, to teach, to demonstrate through mentorship and assistance in case preparation, and to provide guidelines for effective delivery of training courses in command roles and responsibilities of financial forensic accounting analysis. The Offeror shall use current examples from actual on-going investigations (to be shared upon award) as the focus of the training courses.

1. Curriculum Development Requirements (3 training sessions, each 1 week long; 3 weeks of mentoring, each 1 week long; 3 weeks case preparation for each course, each 1 week)

The Contractor shall develop course material and delivery method through the combined use of computer- and non-computer based training techniques to deliver both theoretical information and practical techniques in order to conduct trainings for the Royal Bahamas Police Force, Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP), and the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) officials, focusing on the topics outlined in this SOW. The curriculum must be aligned with the reality of situations, laws, and experiences specific to The Bahamas, and incorporating internationally accepted standards. The Contractor shall provide experts that will be responsible for training and mentoring on the topics listed below, focusing on instructional techniques and developing a high level of knowledge in intelligence analysis, as well as investigation and case preparation using real life examples. One group of fifteen (15) investigators, analysts, and prosecutors shall attend each training course. The primary components to be developed shall include:

· Worldwide Money Laundering Trends

· Forensic Accounting

· Criminal Financial Fraud Investigation

· Legal Considerations-Investigative Techniques

· Financial Assessment Modeling

· Operational Plan Development

· Human Intelligence

· Open Source Intelligence

· Financial Sources

· Collection Tools

· Financial Intelligence Collection Practical Exercise

· Financial Intelligence File Reviews

· Reports of Investigation

· Intelligence Analysis Practical Exercise

· Introduction to Financial Intelligence Report Writing

· Legal Case Preparation

· Law Enforcement Ethics

· IBM i2 platform software use in case-mapping

· Using bank-scan to enter information

· Creating templates for bank scan

The case preparation component will deal with the preliminary investigations and case preparations that the instructors will review, and incorporate into the courses. This information will be provided to the contractor after the post-award conference call. The instructors will receive actual real-life cases. Prior to presenting the course, the instructors will prepare cases to be used in the courses with the investigators and prosecutors.

Course Requirements

· Creation of guidance for the RBPF DPP/FIU officials on how to collect, evaluate, and compile financial information to combat and overcome serious financial fraud, money laundering, and corruption.

· Marked improvement in knowledge, skills, and abilities based on pre-training and post-training testing assessments.

· Increase in number of cases brought for prosecution.

· Design and develop all materials to be used in the trainings. Training Materials include PowerPoint presentations, manuals, handouts, group and individual activities, and any other materials deemed necessary by the Contractor. The Contractor shall provide the COR with a list of reference materials used for curriculum development.

· Provide actionable investigative cases that could be used in a Bahamian court.

· Provide own equipment including a computer, PowerPoint projector, and other presentation and course materials as needed per the requirements of the curriculum for all course lectures.

· Course documents shall be submitted to INL for approval in accordance with deliverable timetable. These documents shall be evaluated on content, grammar, flow, etc., and shall be subject to editing by INL.

· The proposed curriculum shall include relevant case studies and applicable exercises specific to The Bahamas, transnational crime, Bahamian law enforcement regulations, and the Bahamian judicial system.

Case Preparation/ Mentoring Requirements

· Oversight on the collection, evaluation, and compilation of financial information specific to current/ on-going RBPF investigations.

· Marked improvement in the ability of investigators to prepare all components of a financial investigation to be used in the court of law.

· Increase in the number of cases brought for prosecution.

· Increase in meetings and interactions between police investigators and prosecutors.

· Oversee investigations into matters that could be used in a Bahamian court.

· Assist in development of standard operating procedures for the investigators, prosecutors, and financial intelligence unit.

Deliverables

· Consult with INL Nassau about project and local partners prior to course development tp conduct needs assessment.

· Develop a course curriculum syllabus to teach the ‘primary components’ listed in section V.1. of SOW, above.

· Develop a schedule for the instructors to follow while teaching the course.

· Write two tests: one (1) pretest to be administered before the course is taught (to assess baseline knowledge), and one (1) final test to be administered after the course is completed.

· Analysis of results of each test shall be provided during the out brief (see section V.2 below).

· Develop PowerPoints to be used during the course.

· Write manuals, handouts, group and individual activities, and any other course materials to be distributed to the students during the course.

· Prior to the beginning of the course print all handouts to be used during the course

· The desktop and laptop computers (with installed software), monitors, scanners, printer, and server will arrive in Nassau and be ready for use in the classroom.

2. Reporting Requirements

During each of the training courses, the Contractor shall maintain open, timely, and effective communications with the COR, INL Program Officer, and Embassy Nassau, resulting in a relationship that shall proactively address any potential issues. The Contractor, INL Program Officer, and RBPF Unit head will work closely to coordinate class composition, course content, and scheduling throughout the period of performance.

Deliverables

· Submit an action report after each training is completed. Each report shall be 2-4 pages in length and shall include:

· Names of students completing the course; Names of students not completing the course and a reason for each student’s failure to complete the course (not meeting the 90% attendance rule, behavioral issues, etc.)

· Suggested modifications to existing course curriculum to better suit student understanding, to be implemented in future classes.

· Logistical or coordination problems/issues and suggested solutions to issues noted

· Legal or existing agency policy that conflicts with best practices

· Instructor’s assessment of willingness or opposition to implement the material as presented

· Conflicts between instructional material (as presented) and existing policies/practices used by the organization/students

· Suggested modifications to existing practices or new policies that should be developed to support internationally-accepted best practices, internationally-accepted standards of freedom of the press or human rights requirements

· Other topics as required that affect program delivery

· Conduct an out brief with INL personnel to evaluate the action report after each training is completed. This shall be conducted in person in The Bahamas prior to the departure of the instructors; this will be conducted in person or virtually when the training is held in Miami, depending on the availability of the INL personnel. It shall evaluate the action report, as well as discuss the following:

· The pre-test (baseline) and final test to gauge participants understanding of material shall be presented to INL personnel.

· A course critique that was distributed to all student participants at the completion of the training. This shall be a written anonymous evaluation of the course and course instructors

· Submit a final report after all trainings in the period of performance have been completed. The report shall be 6-9 pages in length and shall be submitted to the COR within 20 business days of the conclusion of the final training. The report shall include:

· Highlights

· Problems encountered

· Lessons learned.

· Detailed information demonstrating the major impact of the program during the entire reporting period; such as success stories, digital photos, proposals, and facts from the conducted trainings.

· Recommended follow-up activities for U.S. Embassy personnel to consider

VII. STAFFING REQUIREMENTS

The Contractor shall be responsible for recruitment of qualified Curriculum Writer/Instructor candidates that meet or exceed the minimum qualifications set out below. INL reserves the right to review recruitment materials and outreach efforts. The Contractor shall be responsible for creating the necessary composition for the curriculum development team and instructor team.

The curriculum developer/writer will also serve as one of the class instructors. The lead instructor will develop the curriculum and the lesson plans, and the non-lead instructors will prepare individual sections and conduct the necessary advanced investigative work.

· The curriculum development team shall include subject matter experts (SME) on the subjects of The Bahamas and the Caribbean including personalities, banks and financial organizations, and financial routes and modus operandi.

· The curriculum team shall include SMEs.

· The curriculum development team shall include subject matter experts (SME) on the subjects of forensic accounting

· With experience with UK Justice System so that cases developed during the course of the training shall be admissible within the Bahamian court system.

· The curriculum development writer shall have at least 5 years of experience in writing and developing training curriculum for government and/or law enforcement courses/workshops/trainings.

· The curriculum development writer shall have at least 5 years of experience providing similar training to U.S. Department of Justice officials.

Instructor Requirements:

· A ratio of one instructor per 15 students is required at all times. The training team may be comprised of between two to three instructors on site at all times. Instructors may rotate throughout the training.

· Instructors must have the ability to work independently and function effectively as part of a team in a dynamic joint environment.

· The instructors’ team shall be composed of highly experienced former or current U.S. federal, state or local law enforcement-intelligence analysts and/or special agents, police officers, state troopers or task force agents-officers assigned to intelligence groups and performing intelligence related duties. At least one member of the instruction team must be an experienced former or current Drug Enforcement Administration Financial analyst.

· All Instructors must have extensive experience including assessing, mentoring and training in:

· Areas of foreign and domestic law enforcement-intelligence activities involving support to complex, multi-jurisdictional and multi-national investigations, including drug enforcement, money laundering, financial crimes, working closely with ‘vetted’ or specialized foreign prosecutors and foreign judicial processes.

· Areas of judicially approved telecommunications intercepts, undercover operations, human source recruitment and handling, human source network management and administration, raw information and evidence collection, processing-handling and analysis, formulation of target packages, and other intelligence work.

· All instructors shall have experience in all-source intelligence cycle processes with an emphasis on money laundering, public corruption, and financial crimes. These intelligence cycle processes shall also include knowledge of case preparation with an emphasis on evidence collection, presentation and court-room presentation.

· Instructors must be competent in the application and understanding of the intelligence process to compile, collate, analyze, produce, and evaluate intelligence and provide subject matter expertise in supporting a variety of tasks and disciplines.

· Instructors must have experience using and teaching bank-scan and IBMi2 software platform.

· Instructors must have competence in providing instruction on the analysis, assessment, production, and dissemination of all-source integrated intelligence on corruption, and the links to criminals.

· Instructors must be competent in writing and producing counter-drug intelligence summaries, estimates, targeting packets, and visual graphic presentations to convey the current counter-drug common operating picture derived from multi-discipline intelligence sources.

· Lead instructors must have knowledge of The Bahamas and money laundering and criminal proceeds flow from The Bahamas, including local and regional banks, local lending and financial organizations and institutions, organizations and trafficking routes, and modus operandi. This knowledge is preferred for other instructors, but not required. Have geo-political knowledge of The Bahamas to include cultural and historical knowledge. Lead instructor must be familiar with The Bahamas’ legal system and must have prior experience in the Caribbean. This knowledge is required for other instructors as well. Special consideration should be provided to individuals with relevant experience in other regional countries as well.

· The Contractor shall submit for approval the trainers. The Contractor shall be responsible for recruitment of qualified candidates that meet or exceed the minimum qualifications. In addition, if the Contractor replaces any trainers of staff during any period of this contract, the Contractor must recruit and submit to the COR for review, final approval, and country clearance as replacement candidates who meet all of the same qualifications as outlined in this SOW.

· All instructors must hold at least Secret Level security clearances.

· All instructors must have worked for U.S. or UK law enforcement or legal environment for a minimum of ten (10) years.

· The goal of the training sessions is to both assist in developing prosecutable cases with successful outcomes, and, ultimately, to train RBPF personnel to garner the skills/techniques/methodologies necessary to successfully prosecute cases without assistance; therefore, ad hoc advisement from prosecutors experienced in cases involving the subject matter to be taught would be beneficial. The USG will rely on the Offeror to determine the best use of this skill set, and how effectively incorporate this expertise into both curriculum development and instruction.

· Under this contract, the USG will not be granting access to classified information; however, Contractor personnel will have access to sensitive Bahamian case information, which may have international implications. The USG seeks a Contractor whose personnel have demonstrated experience in dealing carefully and discreetly, with highly visible, highly sensitive cases, in order to allow for proper, successfully prosecuted outcomes.

Program Management Requirements The Contractor shall provide comprehensive program management, including quality control, oversight, risk mitigation, and communication. The Contractor shall:

· Be flexible and be able to effectively coordinate operations across a variety of internal and external stakeholders. The Contractor must be flexible if there is a disruption to the schedule and be able to re-prioritize, re-order, and re-schedule necessary elements, with guidance and concurrence provided by the Contracting Officer and/or Contracting Officer’s Representative.

· Provide the technical and functional activities needed for program management of the SOW.

· Obtain the necessary licenses and permits to deliver the required services to the Government, as required by applicable laws and regulations. Wherever applicable, obtain all necessary country licenses, visas, and permits, and satisfy all required taxes and fees, necessary to operate within the place of performance.

· Participate in meetings with the Government as requested to discuss performance under the contract. These meetings shall provide status updates and discuss ongoing regulatory, and shipment issues as applicable. These meetings shall be coordinated by the COR.

VIII. Travel

The Contractor shall be responsible for providing Airfare, Per Diem (e.g. Lodging & M&IE), and Airport transfers in the Bahamas for the trainers while in country. Allowable travel costs, as outlined in the Federal Travel Regulation (FTR), and at rates prescribed in the FTR (domestic per diem rates) and Department of State Standardized Regulation 925 (foreign per diem rates), will be paid on a cost reimbursement basis. If needed, the U.S. Embassy in Nassau can assist with hotel reservations for each police trainer at the government rate. The Embassy will be responsible for all travel costs associated with Bahamian students.

IX. DELIVERABLE MATRIX

The table below identifies scheduled due dates (To be determined at award), deliverable alignment with the objectives listed above in Section V and the type of review, classified as Delivery Standard (DS). Deliverables are identified as required documents that are necessary for INL review and approval.

The numbers of days listed in the deliverable schedule are business days. All deliverables will be accepted according to the deliverable review and acceptance guidelines. Please note that update cycles will repeat until Offeror deliverables are accepted.

Once awarded, the Contractor shall provide the Deliverable Schedule dates for Government approval. Deliverables must be provided according to a schedule that meets the Government’s availability for review. No more than three deliverables for review per review cycle should be provided. Only the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) or Contracting Officer (CO) can formally accept work products and or deliverables.

Delivery Standard (DS)

· 10 business days for INL to review and comment

· 5 business days for Contractor to respond with updates

· 5 business days for INL to accept/reject updates

The Contractor shall provide the deliverables identified in the following Deliverables list in accordance with the schedule approved by the Government. The Contractor may be required to provide additional deliverables either upon Government request or as proposed by the Contractor. In addition, the Contractor shall update deliverables as necessary or as directed. All documentation must be free of grammar and typographical errors.

Deliverables

COR 1 Copy NLT 30 days fromWithin 30 days of contract award

COR 1 Copy NLT 30 days from needs assessment

Deliverables

COR 1 Copy NLT 30-4155 days from creation of syllabuscontract award

Deliverables

COR 1 Copy NLT 30-415 days from contract awardcreation of syllabus

Deliverables

COR 1 Copy NLT 30-415 days from contract awardcreation of syllabus

Deliverables

COR 1 Copy NLT 30-415 days from contract awardcreation of syllabus

Deliverables

Deliverables

Deliverables

CS/CO 1 Copy

NLT 20 days following the completion of all training for the entire period of performance

X. SHIPPING INSTRUCTIONS

International courier: Final destination U.S. Embassy Nassau, The Bahamas. Details can be found on Attachment 6 – Equipment and Shipping.s.

All related items included on this order and associated documents shall be labeled and marked for, and the shipping documents, including original bills of lading, certificates of origin and commercial invoice shall be submitted by courier or international courier to the consignee’s following address:

INL Section US Embassy Nassau, The Bahamas Attention: GSO Customs and Shipping Katina Russell (INL) Embassy of the United States #42 Queen Street PO Box N-8197 Nassau, The Bahamas

TEL: 242 322-1181 EXT 4286 OR 4279

Vendors will be responsible for shipping materials for Freeport and Abaco from Nassau.

All Boxes and AWB must be marked as “Diplomatic Cargo.” Improperly marked shipments may be rejected by the Government. The Contractor shall send a copy of each commercial invoice, for customs clearance purpose, to the INL office at the address described above. Vendor shall consolidate the entire shipment to prevent loss and misdirection. Partial shipments are not allowed. Packaging and preservation shall be IAW best commercial practices to enable shipment to final destination, without repacking or incurring damage during shipment and handling.

PLEASE NOTE: All orders are ultimately intended for an overseas destination. If the shipment will involve wood packaging material, then the packing and palletizing must conform to the standards in the International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures Publication No. 15: “Guidelines for Regulating Wood Packaging Material in International Trade” (ISPM 15) and have the appropriate markings indicating that the materials meet this standard. Any deliveries arriving at our indicated domestic delivery address that do not meet these standards will be rejected and must be corrected at the contractor’s expense.

Shipping within the United States: Final Destination Nassau, The Bahamas Items will be delivered by the vendor to the Department of State U.S. Dispatch located in Miami, FL and shall be delivered within 60 calendar days from receipt of contract award.

The address for the delivery to Department of State U.S. Dispatch is:

BETTY K AGENCY

C/O US EMBASSY (INL)

3701 NW SOUTH RIVER DRIVE

MIAMI, FL 33142

TEL: 305 635 4650

FAX: 305 635 4651

1. PACKING AND MARKING

Each box, carton, and package shall be marked as follows:

INL/Nassau Purchase Order No.___________ Box #__ of __

NOTE: Improperly marked shipments may be rejected by the Government.

2. CUSTOMS CLEARANCE AND TAX EXEMPTIONS: The U.S. Government will assist the vendor in obtaining customs clearance and tax exemption certificates from the Government of the Bahamas in accordance with Marking and Submission of Documentation requirements for this contract.

3. PRICE: The price shall include all direct and indirect costs, shipping, profit, export requirements, insurance, etc. The price will not be subject to adjustment after award of the contract.

4. RECEIVING: The vendor is required to replace any defective items at no additional cost to the Government.

5. WARRANTY:

The contractor shall detail their warranty service and length of time it is in effect in their response to this RFP.