SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Feed the Future Private Sector Program - J&A AID-OAA-M-14-00004
- Notice Date
- 6/24/2014
- Notice Type
- Fair Opportunity / Limited Sources Justification
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Agency for International Development, Washington D.C., USAID/Washington, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 7.10-006, Washington, District of Columbia, 20523, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20523
- Solicitation Number
- AID-OAA-M-14-00004
- Archive Date
- 7/24/2014
- Point of Contact
- Sascha Kemper, Phone: 2025674706
- E-Mail Address
-
skemper@usaid.gov
(skemper@usaid.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Award Number
- GS-23F-9801H
- Award Date
- 4/10/2014
- Description
- J&A AID-OAA-M-14-00004 Feed the Future aims to tackle the root causes of global hunger by sustainably increasing agricultural productivity to meet the demand for food, supporting and facilitating access to strong markets, increasing incomes, and reducing under-nutrition. At the July 2009 G8 Summit in L'Aquila, Italy, President Obama pledged $3.5 billion for agricultural development and food security over three years. USAID, together with other US Government (USG) agencies, is implementing the Feed the Future initiative in twenty focus countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Feed the Future recognizes the private sector as a crucial partner in development, given its primary role in generating jobs and economic growth. The transformative outcomes FTF seeks to create depend on the private sector's capacity for innovation, and on its investment in targeted geographies and value chains. Private sector engagement makes it possible for transformation to occur at scale, and with greater sustainability compared with public-sector programs alone. In turn, the public sector can play an important role in creating the incentives and policies necessary to facilitate private sector investment. Through Feed the Future, the USG develops high-impact strategies that focus investment in areas most likely to yield substantial, measurable and sustained improvement in food security. The USG supports host country government processes to develop country-owned agriculture investment plans, then defines its own engagement within the context of these investment plans. The private sector represents a key component of the New Alliance. Whereas, L'Aquila called for public sector to public sector engagement, the New Alliance calls for greater private sector engagement. The G8 members intend to provide support within the agriculture sector to accelerate implementation of CAADP National Investment Plans for Agriculture and Food Security, including through the Grow Africa platform, with the overall goal of facilitating increases in private investment and scaling innovation. Under the FTF Private Sector Program, the contractor has established the foundational work for Grow Africa in the development of the private sector investment plans, business cases and recommendations on institutional frameworks. The New Alliance in its support to Grow Africa seeks to build upon this foundation and to deepen this work to actualize investments and to build the capacity of local institutions to advance private sector investments in the agricultural sector. This contract has several main objectives: 1.Provide recommendations on USAID's engagement with the private sector in agriculture and nutrition in the context of the Feed the Future initiative, on global, regional, and country levels. 2.Assist the Missions in facilitating sustainable institutional frameworks in countries that will coordinate public and private sector investments in projects of joint interest and identify capacity development needs. 3.Provide analysis of key agricultural investment opportunities for the private sector and outline public sector interventions needed to facilitate these investments. 4.Provide assistance to Missions and Cooperating Country Governments (Governments) to promote private sector reform that will increase and deepen investments complementary to the national agriculture investment plans and the Feed the Future strategic plans and builds on USAID activities such as AgCLIR (Agriculture-Commercial Legal and Institutional Reform). 5.Provide assistance in setting up the institutional framework and operational structures to carry forward investment opportunities in the agricultural sector. 6.Provide assistance to Government institutions such as the Ministry of Trade or Agriculture, the Investment Facilitation Body, etc. to further advance identified business cases, G8 Letters of Intent (LOIs) and other investment opportunities, and assist where possible and timely with information gathering, definition of requirements and communication facilitation.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: 1.Ethiopia, 2.Ghana, 3.Kenya, 4.Malawi, 5.Mozambique, 6.Nigeria, 7.Rwanda, 8.Tanzania, 9.West Africa including non-presence countries, 10.USAID Washington, United States
- Record
- SN03405013-W 20140626/140625022448-41b7b4eb7d487f4f661259ebd25c6928 (fbodaily.com)
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