(c) If the parties fail to agree on an adjustment made pursuant to this clause, it shall be considered a dispute, and shall be dealt with under the terms of the clause of this contract entitled "Disputes". 752.7009 Marking. The following clause is for use in all AID contracts performed in whole or in part overseas. MARKING (APR. 1984) (a) It is AID policy that AID-financed commodities and shipping containers, and project construction sites and other project locations be suitably marked with the AID red, white, and blue handclasp emblem. Shipping containers are also to be marked with the last five digits of the AID financing document number. As a general rule, marking is not required for raw materials shipped in bulk (such as coal, grain, etc.), or for semifinished products which are not packaged. (b) Specific guidance on marking requirements should be obtained prior to procurement of commodities to be shipped, and as early as possible for project construction sites and other project locations. This guidance will be provided through the cognizant technical office indicated on the cover page of this contract, or by the Mission Director in the Cooperating Country to which commodities are being shipped, or in which the project site is located. (c) Authority to waive marking requirements is vested with the Regional Assistant Administrators, and with Mission Directors. (d) A copy of any specific marking instructions or waivers from marking requirements is to be sent to the Contracting Officer; the original should be retained by the Contractor. For use in all AID contracts involving performance overseas. CONVERSION OF U.S. DOLLARS TO LOCAL Upon arrival in the Cooperation Country, and from time to time as appropriate, the Contractor's Chief of Party shall consult with the Mission Director who shall provide, in writing, the procedure the Contractor and its employees shall follow in the conversion of United States dollars to local currency. This may include, but is not limited to, the conversion of said currency through the cognizant U.S. Disbursing Officer or Mission Controller, as appropriate. 752.7011 Orientation and language training. For use in all AID cost-reimbursement contracts involving performance overseas. ORIENTATION AND LANGUAGE TRAINING (APR. 1984) (a) Regular employees shall receive a maximum of 2 weeks AID sponsored orientation before travel overseas. The dates of orientation shall be selected by the Contractor from the orientation schedule provided by AID. (b) Participation in AID sponsored orientation in no way relieves the Contractor of its responsibility for assuring that all employees, regular and short-term, are properly oriented. As an addition to or substitution for AID's sponsored orientation for regular employees, the following types of orientation may be authorized taking into consideration specific job requirements, the employee's prior overseas experience, or unusual circumstances. (1) Modified orientation. (2) Language training, particularly when significant for operating capabilities. (3) Orientation and language training for regular employee's dependents. (4) Contractor-sponsored orientation. (5) Orientation in all matters related to the administrative, logistical, and technical aspects of the employee's movement to, and tour of duty in, the Cooperating Country. (c) Authorization for an additional or alternate orientation program, if any, shall be either set forth in the schedule or provided in writing by the Contracting Officer. (d) Travel expenses not to exceed one round trip from regular employee's residence to place of orientation and return will be reimbursed, pursuant to the cost principles applicable to this contract. Allowable salary costs during the period of orientation are also reimbursable. 752.7012 Protection of the individual as a research subject. This clause is for use in any AID contract which involves research using human subjects. PROTECTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL AS A The contractor is required to comply with the procedures in Title 45, Subtitle A, Part 46 of the Code of Federal Regulations. 752.7013 Contractor-mission relationships. (a) Alternate 70. For use in all AID contracts involving performance over formed consent above were orally presented to the patient, and that the patient thereafter consented to the performance of the operation. The receipt of the oral explanation shall be acknowledged by the patient's mark on the certification and by the signature or mark of the witness who shall be of the same sex and speak the same language as the patient. (4) Copies of the informed consent forms and certification documents for each voluntary sterilization (VS) procedure must be retained by the performing Contractor or subcontractor for a period of three years after the performance of the sterilization procedure. (d) The Contractor shall insert the substance of this clause in any subgrants, subcontracts, purchase orders, and other subordinate agreements hereunder whenever appropriate to the goods and services to be provided under such agreements. [49 FR 13259, Apr. 3, 1984, as amended at 49 FR 33669, Aug. 24, 1984; 51 FR 34985, Oct. 1, 1986] 752.7017 Local cost financing with U.S. dollars. For use in any AID contract involving performance overseas, under which local cost financing has been authorized in accordance with Chapter 18 of AID Handbook 1, Supplement B. LOCAL COST FINANCING WITH U.S. DOLLARS (APR. 1984) Local cost financing is the use of U.S. dollars to obtain local currency for the procurement of goods and services in the Cooperating Country in furtherance of the purpose of the contract. Local cost financing must be specifically authorized in the schedule of the contract. The amount of U.S. dollars which may be used must be specified in the authorization, together with any special restrictions on their use. Procurement of goods and services under local cost financing is subject to the restrictions governing Ineligible goods and services, and Restricted goods in 48 CFR 752.7004(d) and 752.7004(e). Unless otherwise specifically authorized, the policies in chapter 18 of AID Handbook 1, Supplement B are applicable to all local cost financing. 752.7018 Health and accident coverage for AID participant trainees. For use in any AID contract under which AID participants are trained. HEALTH AND ACCIDENT COVERAGE FOR AID PARTICIPANT TRAINEES (AUG. 1984) (a) The Contractor shall enroll all nonU.S. participants (hereinafter referred to as "participants"), whose training in the U.S. is financed by AID under this contract, in AID's Health and Accident Coverage (HAC) program. (b) The Contractor shall, prior to the initiation of travel by each participant financed by AID under this contract, fill out and mail to AID the Participant Data Form (form AID 1381-4). The contractor can obtain a supply of these cards and instructions for completing them, from the Office of International Training, AID Washington, DC 20523. (c) The Contractor shall assure that enrollment shall begin immediately upon the participant's departure for the United States for the purpose of participating in a training program financed by AID and that enrollment shall continue in full force and effect until the participant returns to his/ her country of origin, or is released from AID's responsibility, whichever is the sooner. The Contractor shall continue enrollment for participants whose departure is delayed due to medical or other compelling reasons, with the written concurrence of the AID Project Manager and subject to the requirements of paragraph (d). (d) The Contractor shall submit the Participant Data Form to AID, as specified in paragraph (b) of this section, to enable the participant(s), or the provider of medical services, to submit bills for medical costs resulting from illness and accident to the HAC Administrator (the name and address of the HAC Administrator may be obtained from either M/FM/PAFD (see paragraph (d)(1) of this clause), or from the Office of International Training (see paragraph (b) of this clause). The HAC Administrator, not the Contractor, shall be responsible for paying all reasonable and necessary charges, not otherwise covered by student health service or other insurance programs (see paragraphs (e) and (f)), subject to the availability of funds for such purposes, in accordance with the standards of coverage established by AID under the HAC program, and subject to the payment of the fee specified in paragraph (d)(1), of this clause. (1) Within thirty (30) days after enrollment, the Contractor shall send to: Agency for International Development, Office of Financial Management, Program Accounting and Finance Division, Non-Project Assistance, Washington, DC 20523, an enrollment fee computed on the basis of the fixed rate per participant per month (information regarding the current rate is available from the AID Office of International Training, or (4) Official mail pursuant to paragraph (a)(1) of this section sent by pouch should be addressed as follows: Name of individual or organization (followed by letter symbol "C"), Name of post (USAID/——- —), Agency for International Development, Washington, DC 20523. (5) Personal mail pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of this clause should be sent to the address specified in paragraph (a)(4) of this clause, but without the name of the organization. (6) Mail sent via the diplomatic pouch may not be in violation of U.S. Postal laws and may not contain material ineligible for pouch transmission. (7) AID contractor personnel are not authorized use of military postal facilities (APO/FPO). This is an Adjutant General's decision based on existing laws and regulations governing military postal facilities and is being enforced worldwide. Posts having access to APO/FPO facilities and using such for diplomatic pouch dispatch, may, however, accept official mail from Contractors and letter mail from their employees for the pouch, provided of course, adequate postage is affixed. (b) The Contractor shall be responsible for advising its employees of this authorization and these guidelines and limitations on use of pouch facilities. (c) Specific additional guidance on use of pouch facilities in accordance with this clause is available from the Post Communication Center at the Embassy or AID Mission. 752.7016 Family planning and population assistance activities. The following clause is applicable to all contracts involving any aspect of family planning or population activities. FAMILY PLANNING AND POPULATION (a) Voluntary Participation. (1) The Contractor agrees to take any steps necessary to ensure that funds made available under this contract will not be used to coerce any individual to practice methods of family planning inconsistent with such individual's moral, philosophical, or religious beliefs. Further, the Contractor agrees to conduct its activities in a manner which safeguards the rights, health and welfare of all individuals who take part in the program. (2) Activities which provide family planning services or information to individuals, financed in whole or in part under this contract, shall provide a broad range of family planning methods and services available in the country which the activity is conducted or shall provide information to such individ uals regarding where such methods and services may be obtained. (b) Prohibition on Abortion-related Activities. No funds made available under this Contract shall be used to finance, support, or be attributed to the following activities: (i) Procurement or distribution of equipment intended to be used for the purposes of inducing abortions as a method of family planning: (ii) special fees or incentives to women to coerce or motivate them to have abortions; (iii) payments to persons to perform abortions or to solicit persons to undergo abortions; (iv) information, education, training, or communication programs that seek to promote abortion as a method of family planning; (v) any biomedical research which relates, in whole or in part, to methods of, or the performance of, abortions or involuntary sterilization as a means of family planning (epidemiologic or descriptive research to assess the incidence, extent or consequences of abortion is not precluded); or (vi) lobbying for abortion. (c) Voluntary Participation Requirements for Sterilization Programs. (1) None of the funds made available under this contract shall be used to pay for the performance of involuntary sterilizations or to coerce or provide any financial incentive to any person to practice sterilizations. (2) The Contractor shall insure that any surgical sterilization procedures supported in whole or in part by funds from the contract are performed only after the individual has voluntarily come to the treatment facility and has given an informed consent to the sterilization procedure. Informed consent means the voluntary knowing assent from the individual given after being advised of the surgical procedures to be followed, the attendant discomforts and risks, the benefits to be expected, the availability of alternative methods of family planning, the purpose of the operation and its irreversibility, and the fact that the consent can be withdrawn at any time prior to the operation. An individual's consent is considered voluntary if it is based upon the exercise of free choice and is not obtained by any special inducement or any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress or other forms of coercion or misrepresentation. (3) Further, the Contractor shall document the patient's informed consent by: (i) A written consent document in a language the patient understands and speaks, which explains the basic elements of informed consent, as set out above, and which is signed by the individual and by the attending physician or by the authorized assistant of the attending physician; or (ii) when a patient is unable to read adequately a written certification signed by the attending physician or by the authorized assistant of the attending physician that the basic elements of in formed consent above were orally presented to the patient, and that the patient thereafter consented to the performance of the operation. The receipt of the oral explanation shall be acknowledged by the patient's mark on the certification and by the signature or mark of the witness who shall be of the same sex and speak the same language as the patient. (4) Copies of the informed consent forms and certification documents for each voluntary sterilization (VS) procedure must be retained by the performing Contractor or subcontractor for a period of three years after the performance of the sterilization procedure. (d) The Contractor shall insert the substance of this clause in any subgrants, subcontracts, purchase orders, and other subordinate agreements hereunder whenever appropriate to the goods and services to be provided under such agreements. [49 FR 13259, Apr. 3, 1984, as amended at 49 FR 33669, Aug. 24, 1984; 51 FR 34985, Oct. 1, 1986] 752.7017 Local cost financing with U.S. dollars. For use in any AID contract involving performance overseas, under which local cost financing has been authorized in accordance with Chapter 18 of AID Handbook 1, Supplement B. LOCAL COST FINANCING WITH U.S. DOLLARS (APR. 1984) Local cost financing is the use of U.S. dollars to obtain local currency for the procurement of goods and services in the Cooperating Country in furtherance of the purpose of the contract. Local cost financing must be specifically authorized in the schedule of the contract. The amount of U.S. dollars which may be used must be specified in the authorization, together with any special restrictions on their use. Procurement of goods and services under local cost financing is subject to the restrictions governing Ineligible goods and services, and Restricted goods in 48 CFR 752.7004(d) and 752.7004(e). Unless otherwise specifically authorized, the policies in chapter 18 of AID Handbook 1, Supplement B are applicable to all local cost financing. 752.7018 Health and accident coverage for AID participant trainees. For use in any AID contract under which AID participants are trained. HEALTH AND ACCIDENT COVERAGE FOR AID PARTICIPANT TRAINEES (AUG. 1984) (a) The Contractor shall enroll all nonU.S. participants (hereinafter referred to as "participants"), whose training in the U.S. is financed by AID under this contract, in AID's Health and Accident Coverage (HAC) program. (b) The Contractor shall, prior to the initiation of travel by each participant financed by AID under this contract, fill out and mail to AID the Participant Data Form (form AID 1381-4). The contractor can obtain a supply of these cards and instructions for completing them, from the Office of International Training, AID Washington, DC 20523. (c) The Contractor shall assure that enrollment shall begin immediately upon the participant's departure for the United States for the purpose of participating in a training program financed by AID and that enrollment shall continue in full force and effect until the participant returns to his/ her country of origin, or is released from AID's responsibility, whichever is the sooner. The Contractor shall continue enrollment for participants whose departure is delayed due to medical or other compelling reasons, with the written concurrence of the AID Project Manager and subject to the requirements of paragraph (d). (d) The Contractor shall submit the Participant Data Form to AID, as specified in paragraph (b) of this section, to enable the participant(s), or the provider of medical services, to submit bills for medical costs resulting from illness and accident to the HAC Administrator (the name and address of the HAC Administrator may be obtained from either M/FM/PAFD (see paragraph (d)(1) of this clause), or from the Office of International Training (see paragraph (b) of this clause). The HAC Administrator, not the Contractor, shall be responsible for paying all reasonable and necessary charges, not otherwise covered by student health service or other insurance programs (see paragraphs (e) and (f)), subject to the availability of funds for such purposes, in accordance with the standards of coverage established by AID under the HAC program, and subject to the payment of the fee specified in paragraph (d)(1), of this clause. (1) Within thirty (30) days after enrollment, the Contractor shall send to: Agency for International Development, Office of Financial Management, Program Accounting and Finance Division, Non-Project Assistance, Washington, DC 20523, an enrollment fee computed on the basis of the fixed rate per participant per month (information regarding the current rate is available from the AID Office of International Training, or the HAC Administrator). The minimum period for calculation of fee is one monththat is, one participant month, 30 days, not one calendar month. Premiums may not be prorated for fractional periods of less than 30 days. The enrollment fee should cover a minimum period of up to one year or the current training period for which funds are obligated under this contract, whichever is less. As applicable, payments for additional periods of enrollment shall be made 30 days prior to the beginning of each new enrollment period or new period of funding of this contract. All such fee payments shall be made by check, payable to the "Agency for International Development (HAC)." If payments are not made within 30 days, a late payment charge shall apply at a percentage rate based on the current value of funds to the Treasury for each 30 day period; the full charge shall also be applicable to periods of less than 30 days. The percentage rate will be calculated by the Treasury as an average of the current value of funds to the Treasury for a recent three month period and will be transmitted to AID in TFRM Bulletins.The late payment charge shall be applied to any portion of the fees in arrears and be remitted together with the fees as a separately identified item on the covering memorandum. (2) Whenever possible, fee payments for groups of several participants entering the HAC Program within the thirty-day reporting period shall be consolidated and covered by a single check. Participants covered by the fee payment shall be listed individually in a covering letter, identifying each participant (the name reported must be identical to that on the HAC enrollment card), showing period of enrollment (or period of coverage for which payment is remitted if this is different from the enrollment period), fee amount paid, contract number, and U.S. Government appropriation number (as shown under the "Accounting and Appropriation Data" block of the cover page of the contract). (e) The Contractor, to the extent that it is an educational institution with a student health service program, shall also enroll all participants in their institution's student health service program. Medical costs which are covered under the institution's student health service shall not be eligible for payment under AID's HAC program. The Contractor shall provide the HAC Administrator with a copy of information showing what medical costs are covered by the institution's student health service program; medical costs that are not covered by the institution's student health service program shall be submitted to the HAC Administrator. (f) If the Contractor has a mandatory, non-waivable health and accident insurance program for students, the costs of such in surance will be allowable under this contract. Any claims eligible under such insurance will not be payable under AID's HAC plan or under this contract. Even though the participant is covered by the Contractor's mandatory, non-waivable health and accident insurance program, the participant MUST be enrolled in AID's more comprehensive HAC program and HAC payments MUST be made to AID as provided above. In addition, a copy of the mandatory insurance policy must be forwarded to the HAC Administrator. (g) Any payments for medical costs not covered by the Contractor's student health service program, or mandatory, non-waivable health and accident insurance program, or AID's HAC program shall be reimbursable under this contract only with specific written approval of the Contracting Office and subject to the availability of funds. [49 FR 13259, Apr. 3, 1984, as amended at 49 FR 33669, Aug. 24, 1984] 752.7019 Participant training. (a) Alternate 70. For use in any AID contract involving participant training except for cost reimbursement contracts with an educational institution. PARTICIPANT TRAINING (APR. 1984) (a) Definitions. (1) Participant training is the training of any foreign national outside of his or her home country, using AID funds. (2) A Participant is any foreign national being trained under this contract outside of his or her home country. (b) Applicable regulations. Participant training is to be conducted according to the policies established in AID Handbook 10Participant Training, except to the extent that specific exceptions to AID Handbook 10 have been provided in this contract. (Handbook 10 may be obtained by submitting a request to the Office of International Training, at the address specified in paragraph (c) of this section.) (c) Reporting requirement. Once each month the Contractor shall submit three copies of form AID 1381-4, "Participant Data Form" to the Office of International Training, AID, Washington, DC 20523. (b) Alternate 71. For use in cost reimbursement contracts with an educational institution. PARTICIPANT TRAINING (APR. 1984) (a) To the extent foreign country national training is authorized in the schedule of this contract, the contractor shall be reimbursed for the following reasonable and allocable costs incurred in providing training |