Initiative to Deliver Essential Assistance and Services (Ideas) Tender, USA - 41810195

Procurement Summary

Country : USA

Summary : Initiative to Deliver Essential Assistance and Services (Ideas)

Deadline : 21 Apr 2020

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 41810195

Document Ref. No. : 720268BAA2000001

Competition : ICB

Financier : United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (USAID)
Primary Point of Contact: Attn: Amy McQuade
USA
Email :IDEASBAALebanon@usaid.gov

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for Usaid/Lebanon Broad Agency Announcement for Initiative to Deliver Essential Assistance and Services (Ideas).

Issuance Date: March 18, 2020

Open Period: March 18, 2020 to April 17, 2020 17:00 EST

The USAID Broad Agency Announcement for Initiative to Deliver Essential Assistance and Services (IDEAS)

No. 720268BAA2000001

I. Overview

The United States Government, represented by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through the Mission in Lebanon, is issuing this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) to seek participants to co-create, co-design, co-invest, and collaborate on research and development[1] interventions to improve delivery of essential assistance and services at the municipal level. USAID invites for-profit and non-profit, public and private organizations to submit Expression(s) of Interest (EOI), as provided in Section III Stage 1 below.

The intent of the BAA is to allow co-creation and co-design to develop high quality, effective partnerships that increase the impact of service delivery to Lebanese communities. The BAA also advances USAID-s Acquisition and Assistance Strategy[2] and New Partner Initiative, [3] which seek innovative approaches to procurement and ways to expand and diversify the partner base. USAID will invite selected entities, as detailed below in Section III Stage 2, to co-create research and development (R&D) innovative and sustainable solutions to the Problem and Challenge Statements stated in this BAA, including those entities that have expertise, resources, and/or funding to add to potential solutions.

[1] Research is defined in the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) 2.101 as: "Basic research” means that research directed toward increasing knowledge in science. The primary aim of basic research is a fuller knowledge or understanding of the subject under study, rather than any practical application of that knowledge. And in FAR 35.001: “Applied research” means that effort which (1) normally follows basic research, but may not be severable from the related basic research, (2) attempts to determine and exploit the potential of scientific discoveries or improvements in technology, materials, processes, methods, devices, or techniques, and (3) attempts to advance the state of the art. Applied research does not include efforts whose principal aim is design, development, or test of specific items or services to be considered for sale; these efforts are within the definition of the term “development, ” defined in this subsection. FAR 35.001: “Development” as used in this part, means the systematic use of scientific and technical knowledge in the design, development, testing, or evaluation of a potential new product or service (or of an improvement in an existing product or service) to meet specific performance requirements or objectives. It includes the functions of design engineering, prototyping, and engineering testing; it excludes subcontracted technical effort that is for the sole purpose of developing an additional source for an existing product.

[2] https://www.usaid.gov/work-usaid/how-to-work-with-usaid/acquisition-and-assistance-strategy

[3] https://www.usaid.gov/npi.

General Information: Contract Opportunity Type: Special Notice (Original)
All Dates/Times are: (UTC-04:00) EASTERN STANDARD TIME, NEW YORK, USA
Original Published Date: Mar 20, 2020 07:44 am EDT
Original Response Date: Apr 21, 2020 05:00 pm EDT
Inactive Policy: 15 days after response date
Original Inactive Date: May 06, 2020
Initiative: None

Classification: Original Set Aside:
Product Service Code: R410 - SUPPORT- PROFESSIONAL: PROGRAM EVALUATION/REVIEW/DEVELOPMENT
NAICS Code: 541990 - All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
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