The Millennium Challenge Corporation issued a BPA call to Social Impact Inc., a woman-owned small business, for independent evaluation of Senegal's Improving Electricity Access in Rural and Peri-Urban Areas (ACCESS) Project, with a ceiling value of $1,847,316 and an award date of September 26, 2022.
The call is performed in Senegal and runs through September 25, 2030. Social Impact will deliver monitoring, evaluation, and impact assessment services focused on the project's Distribution Network Reinforcement Activity, including evaluation of medium-voltage line construction, loopback infrastructure, and fault sensors in the Nioro sub-region. The work includes baseline data collection, quarterly progress reporting, and grid-performance indicator measurement using GridWatch sensor technology.
Nline, Inc., a small disadvantaged business, is subcontracted to deploy and manage GridWatch sensors for data collection on key grid indicators including System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI) and System Average Interruption Frequency Index (SAIFI) before and after implementation of project activities. Deliverables span a base period through September 2024 and an option period through September 2025, with quarterly reporting requirements and structured deployment, data collection, and compliance milestones.