The U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), International Broadcasting Bureau's (IBB), Office of Contracts located in Washington, DC, has a continuous need for international broadcasters worldwide who have the capability of providing worldwide broadcasting outlets for possible re-transmission and dissemination of programs and other content produced by the following individual BBG international broadcasters: Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB) - Radio/TV Marti - Radio Free Asia (RFA), Middle East Radio Network (MERN) - Radio SAWA - and the Middle East Television Network (MTN) - Al Hurra. Below is a listing of the languages used by above the individual BBG international broadcasters: VOA broadcasts in English and 44 other languages such as: Afan Oromo, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Bosnian, Burmese, Cantonese, Creole, Croatian, Dari, French, Greek, Hausa, Hindi, Indonesian, Khmer, Kirundi, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kurdish, Lao, Macedonian, Mandarin, Ndebele, Pashto, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Shona, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Tibetan, Tigrigna, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek and Vietnamese. RFE/RL broadcasts and/or provides news and information on the Internet in English and 27 languages: Dari, Pashto, Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Avar, Chechen, Circassian, Armenian, Azeri, Belarusian, Georgian, Persian, Arabic, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Romanian, Russian, Tajik, Tatar, Bashkir, Turkmen, Ukrainian and Uzbek. OCB broadcasts radio, television and Internet programming in Spanish. RFA broadcasts in Mandarin, Cantonese, Burmese, Korean, Lao, Khmer, Tibetan, Uyghur and Vietnamese. MERN broadcasts in Arabic. MTN broadcasts in Arabic. Interested sources are encouraged to submit a Capability Statement in English detailing their experience, audience, primary broadcast language(s), organization, individual broadcasting outlets, point of contract (name, address, email and phone number), availability, any restrictions or special conditions, interest in specific BBG international broadcasters and any broadcasting fees. Offerors will be evaluated on the following criteria: antenna direction, transmitter power, transmission rate in US dollars. Offerors should note that Capability Statements will be evaluated for award on a continuous basis and will be evaluated against the criteria listed above. Offerors wishing to be considered should notify the Agency's contact immediately and submit a Capability Statement as soon as possible thereafter. BBG will negotiate agreements based on the needs of the Agency to broadcast to a particular geographical region. BBG may enter into a Broadcast Lease Agreement with those sources whose broadcasting outlets have been selected to accomplish BBG mission requirements. In addition, BBG will collect compliance information from all broadcasts, as well as Internet and mobile operations to insure that the selected broadcaster fully satisfy the requirements of their agreements. Termination of an Agreement can be made in whole or in part by either party upon issuance of a written (30) day advance notice. Please submit your written Capability Statement to Attn: Myria Carpenter , Broadcasting Board of Governors, International Broadcasting Bureau, Office of Contracts, 330 C Street, SW, Suite 4007, Washington, DC 20237 USA; e-mail:
[email protected]; fax: +1.202.382.7861. Capability Statement will be received through September 30, 2010. All submissions will be considered by the Agency. This Notice is not a RFQ, RFP, or IFB.