Power africa seeks to accelerate connection of rural senegalese households and businesses to electricity, including - where appropriate and commercially viable - through off-grid systems. This call…

This federal contract award is for a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) call issued by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to Guidehouse LLP, doing business as PricewaterhouseCoopers Public Sector. The BPA is titled "Supporting Improvements to the Enabling Environment to Attract Energy Infrastructure Investment" and is intended to provide USAID's Power Africa initiative with diagnostic analysis to help guide potential interventions and investments to accelerate the commercial deployment of solar home systems (SHS) and micro-grids in Senegal. The contract, valued at $279,900, does not have a set-aside designation. Guidehouse will collect market research, identify key constraints, and propose solutions to promote sustainable commercial deployment of SHS and micro-grids in Senegal. This effort supports Power Africa's goal of accelerating rural electrification in Senegal through appropriate and commercially viable off-grid systems.

Power africa seeks to accelerate connection of rural senegalese households and businesses to electricity, including - where appropriate and commercially viable - through off-grid systems. This call will provide power africa with targeted and strategic diagnostic analysis to help guide potential interventions and investments designed to accelerate and create a sustainable market for the commercial deployment of solar home systems (shss) and micro-grids. The resulting assessment will: (1) collect, aggregate and analyze market research on commercial SHS and micro-grid firms operating or looking to operate in senegal as well as the respective experiences of any SHS and micro-grid companies that have tried and failed; (2) identify and categorize the key constraints that are currently or may in the future impede commercial deployment in senegal; and (3) propose concrete solutions (e.g., technical, regulatory, commercial) and potential interventions that could be taken by the GOS and/or power africa and its development partners to promote accelerated and sustainable commercial deployment of SHS and micro-grid solutions, prioritized in terms of factors such as projected impact, probability of success, and projected timeline.