ATTACHMENT A
STATEMENT OF WORK FOR SOLICITATION NO. 95T813-18-R-0036
RFE/RL RADIO AND VOA TV PROGRAM IN BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA
1. The Broadcasting Board of Governors is seeking a news TV and Radio station in Bosnia and Hercegovina with multicity coverage that has the ability to reach mass audience in Bosnia and Hercegovina cable or terrestrial to provide the services described below.
2. The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB), Office of Strategy and Development (OSD) in Prague, Czech Republic, is seeking an "Offeror" that is a news TV and Radio Provider. A Provider is defined as a full time TV and Radio station with a one year minimum of operating experience, which broadcasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and has the ability to reach mass audience in Bosnia and Hercegovina with a reputation for producing respected, credible and accurate news programming.
3. The primary objective is to provide transmission of the BBG-provided content (RFE/RL Radio South Slavic (SSL) program and VOA TV Serbian program) on a regular basis, as described below in the broadcast schedule, to the largest possible audience in Bosnia and Hercegovina using available BBG funding.

4. The preferred Provider shall broadcast Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's (RFE/RL's) Radio Regional program from Monday to Saturday at 1900-1930 with its repeats at 0400-0430 from Monday to Friday local time and Voice of America's (VOA's) TV Serbian program from Monday to Friday at 0000-0030 local time with the broadcast airing not varying more than two minutes from the aforementioned times.
Samples can be found at the following website:
https://www.glasamerike.net/
https://web.archive.org/web/20160320003520/http:/www.rferl.org/howtolisten/SC/ondemand.html

5. BBG is solely responsible for the content of all BBG provided programming and is authorized to produce its program in the desired format, so long as it does not violate the laws of Bosnia and Hercegovina .

6. The Provider shall supply all personnel, equipment, and transmission services to receive and rebroadcast the RFE/RL SSL Radio program and VOA Serbian TV program in its entirety, without pre-emption, alteration, abridgement or excerption. However, the Provider shall have the right to decline to run the BBG content, so long as BBG is notified in advance of the intent and reason, and may recommend changes to program format or content. No alterations shall be made, however, without the prior written agreement of the Contracting Officer (CO), the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR).

7. The Provider will only be paid for the original airings of the RFE/RL SSL Radio program and VOA Serbian TV program that are run from start to completion and to the satisfaction of the BBG.

8. The Provider shall inform the BBG in advance of any planned alteration of the program's scheduled broadcast airing or other technical or administrative issues post award. The Provider and the BBG shall provide each other with point of contact information for notification purposes.

9. The BBG will transmit RFE/RL programming to the Provider via satellite, Internet/File Transfer Protocol (FTP), or other means. The technical details of the transmission to the network(s) and feed transmission times will be mutually agreed upon after contract award once a Provider is selected by the BBG.

 

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