Questions and Answers

Questions and Answers (continued)

6)Could you please let us know if there has already been a budget pre-determined for this work statement? I have noticed that 300 K USD have been budgeted for the FY09 listed activities. However, it is not clear if this includes the amount for this solicitation.

The Government is not making its independent Government estimate available to the public. Interested contractors are required to submit their own cost proposal. For more information on the budget, please review the below question and answer that was posted to fed biz opps.

- Draft Statement of Work Section 3.1.a. states, “The FY09 budget for the above activities is approximately $300K”. Is that what the GCMC is going to be allotting for the actual facilities and other materials to host these activities, or is the $300K what the Government has budgeted for the contractor support for these activities?

The $300K is from the operational PfPC budget, used to pay for Partner travel/lodging/meals, conference facilities, interpretation, and other expenses necessary to setting up meetings. The figure, together with the list of this year’s events, is intended to give an idea of the scope of work involved. It represents the amount of money PfPC will spend to execute the Education Devolopment Working Group’s portion of its annual program. It is unrelated to the contract, except insofar as the contractor would be organizing events that spend that money.

7)Did we understand correctly that the principal person for the agreement must to speak one of the following languages: Azeri, Russian, Kazakhs, Georgian, Albanian (Gheg, Tosk)?

There is no requirement to speak a foreign language. However, it is desired. The performance work statement states the following regarding foreign languages, "In order to best fulfill the tasks below in the context of this scope of work, it is desired that the contractor’s key personnel be fluent in at least one foreign language, preferably spoken within the EAPC".