The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service (RUS) awarded a $25 million Indefinite Delivery Contract to Falcon Capital Advisors LLC, a minority-owned, Hispanic American management consulting firm based in Washington, D.C. The contract is to provide eConnectivity support services for the RUS ReConnect Program, which provides grants and loans to expand broadband infrastructure in rural areas. Task orders issued under this IDC have procured a range of services from Falcon Capital Advisors, including application review, guide development, training, program evaluation, risk assessment, and environmental services to facilitate distribution of the ReConnect broadband funding. While the base IDC contract was set aside for small businesses, individual task orders have not carried set-aside designations. The contracted services are performed primarily in the Washington, D.C. area to support the RUS and Rural Housing Service missions.
The original solicitation sought proposals from small businesses with experience providing administrative management and general management consulting services under NAICS code 541611 to support the ReConnect Program's application intake, financial analysis, and program implementation activities. The agency intends to use the resulting IDIQ contract to obtain these services through September 2023, with a $25 million ceiling and a base year of performance running from October 2021 to October 2022. The contract will enable the RUS to expand broadband access in rural, underserved communities through the ReConnect loan and grant initiatives.
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