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OFFER. If by virtue of this amendment you desire to change an offer already submitted , such change may be made by letter or electronic communication, provided each letter or electronic communication makes reference to the solicitation and this amendment, and is received prior to the opening hour and date specified.

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00000 Almaty 050010, Kazakhstan 41 Kazibek Bi St.

USAID/Central Asia/Kazakhstan

01/15/20200001

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AMENDMENT OF SOLICITATION/MODIFICATION OF CONTRACT

01/15/2020

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14. DESCRIPTION OF AMENDMENT/MODIFICATION (Organized by UCF section headings, including solicitation/contract subject matter where feasible.)

The purposes of this amendment are to

1) Answer Questions

2) Make amendments

3) Include the following additional attachments

- Annex 5 PPP Pilot Selection Analysis

- Attachment J 11 Revised Section K

Continued Page 2.

16A. NAME AND TITLE OF CONTRACTING OFFICER (Type or print)15A. NAME AND TITLE OF SIGNER (Type or print)

15C. DATE SIGNED 16B. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 15B. CONTRACTOR/OFFEROR 16C. DATE SIGNED

(Signature of person authorized to sign) (Signature of Contracting Officer)

Joshua Schramm

STANDARD FORM 30 (REV. 11/2016)

Prescribed by GSA FAR (48 CFR) 53.243

Previous edition unusable

Except as provided herein, all terms and conditions of the document referenced in Item 9 A or 10A, as heretofore changed, remains unchanged and in full force and effect .

SOL #72011520R00005

Amendment 1

1. Standard Form 33, Block 9. delete “March 13, 2020” and insert “April 2, 2020.”

2. SECTION C, Objective 2 Page 16 is revised as follows:

On Page 16, delete the last paragraph:

“Under Objective #2, the Contractor will award matching funds not exceeding $200,000 to multiple local businesses, with a total amount not exceeding $1,000,000. The Contractor shall consider wide range of new and underutilized organizations and locally based small businesses to leverage significant private sector funding to promote market solutions to the challenges of drinking water services in Tajikistan. The Contractor will deploy blended finance instruments, which will involve the use of catalytic capital from the private sector or philanthropic sources to increase its investment.”

One Page 17, delete the first paragraph:

“Through those private companies, the Contractor will create access to finance to identified local private enterprise, which are ready to co-invest in water construction, with consequent engagement in operation and management of water services. The sub-awards can also be designed to support more facilitative partnerships for effective local resource mobilization and local private sector engagement. It can also facilitate mentorship, outreach to the private sector, technical assistance in drafting financially sound business plans, process through incubation period to help establish investment-ready businesses. The results will then be made publicly available in order to inform and crowd-in new players into the country’s emerging PPP ecosystem.”

On Page 19, delete the following:

“Result: 2.5 At least 5 local businesses received matching funds for establishing sustainable water services through PPP agreements with local government.”

3. SECTION C, Part X Staffing is revised as follows:

On Page 25, delete

“Key Personnel

a. COP

b. DCOP

c. Grant Manager/Procurement Specialist

And replace with

“Key Personnel

a. COP

b. Team/Technical Leader

c. Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager”

4. SECTION C, Part XII Reports/Plans is revised as

On Page 27, 2. Work Plan, 2nd line from the top of the page delete “30 days” and replace with “45 days.”

On Page 27, 3. Activity Monitoring and Evaluation Plan, at the end of the paragraph, delete “30 days” and replace with “60 days.”

On Page 27, 4. Procurement Plan, at the end of the paragraph, delete “30 days” and replace with “45 days.”

On Page 27, 5. Grants plan delete entire first paragraph and replace with:

“5. Grants plan - USAID anticipates that the implementing partner will provide approximately $500,000 in grants over the life of the project for implementation activities under this scope of work.”

On Page 28, 7. Quarterly Reports, delete “2 weeks” and replace with “30 days.”

5. SECTION F.5 Deliverables

Delete the mandatory indicators table starting page 38 and insert:

IR# Objectively Verifiable Indicators

Expected Result Descriptions / Definition

Activity goal: Domestic water needs of targeted rural communities sustainably addressed Objective 1: Increased access to safely managed drinking water in rural Tajikistan through the rehabilitation/construction of small-scale infrastructure projects.

1.1 Number of people gain

new or improved access to safe drinking water as a result of USG assistance

At least 35,000 people (approximately 5,000 households) gain new or improved access to safe drinking water as a result of USG assistance

A safely managed drinking service is defined as:

- Located on premises: water is provided directly to the household or on premises;

(Standard F Indicators HL.8.1-1, HL.8.1-2 or

HL.8.1-3.)

- Available when needed:

consistently produces 20 liters per day for each person counted as “gaining access.” This amount is considered the daily minimum required to effectively meet a person’s drinking, sanitation, and hygiene needs;

- Compliant with fecal (and priority chemical) standards:

meets a fecal coliform standard of 0 CFU/100 mL, arsenic standard of 10 parts per billion, and (at a minimum) host country standards for other chemicals that have been identified to pose a site-specific risk to human health.

1 1.2 Number of local governments receiving infrastructure investments to improve the quality of drinking water service

(Custom indicator)

At least 12 new or rehabilitated infrastructure handed over to local governments, with improved quality of drinking water service.

Improved quality of the services will be measured by hours of water delivered per day, reduction in non-revenue water, and extension of piped network to serve additional customers, etc.) (Custom)

1.3 Number of institutional

settings (ex: schools, hospitals, primary health care facilities) gaining access to a basic drinking water services as a result of USG assistance

(Standard F indicator

HL.8.1-4)

At least 10 institutional settings (ex: schools, hospitals, primary health care facilities) gain access to a basic drinking water services as a result of USG assistance

Schools in the context of this indicator are day schools for children 6 to 18 years of age who return home after school.

Schools may be public or private. Health facilities may provide different levels of service, but it is anticipated that water services will be installed in health facilities at the lower echelons of the service hierarchy. Health facilities may be public or private.

The Contractor, when selecting area for construction or rehabilitation of existing wells, shall consider nearby institutional settings

Objective 2: Establish reliable and commercially viable drinking water services through improved management and access to finance

2.1 Value of new funding

mobilized to the water and sanitation sectors as a result of USG assistance

(Standard Indicator HL 8.4-1)

At least 10 percent annual increase in financial resources accessed by service providers from public and private sources for the expansion of improved drinking water services as a result of USG assistance.

This indicator measures the total value (USD) of new funding mobilized to expand or improve water or sanitation services or implement water resource management activities. Funding must be allocated to the water operator in order to count as mobilized.

Under this indicator, USAID expects at least 10 percent increase in annual financial resources accessed by service providers from public and private sources for the expansion of improved drinking water services

Funding under this indicator may include:

- Domestic public resources (budget allocations, taxes)

- User payments (tariffs)

- Private/commercial financing (such as via a commercial bank or microfinance institution)

- Private financing through public-private partnerships (PPPs) or Global Development Alliances (GDAs)

*Note that this may not include USG funding

This funding must be applied towards the water sector including:

- capital investment projects for the new construction, replacement, rehabilitation or improvement of WASH infrastructure

- operation and maintenance of existing water infrastructure

- new water service development and marketing

- expansion capital for small businesses providing water services

- government social behavior change campaigns

- water resource management activities

Funding counted towards this indicator must be new funding, that would not be available to the sector without USG assistance.

2.2 Number of convening

events conducted to identify and incentivize private sector to engage in water service delivery.

At least 5 convening events conducted to identify and incentivize private sector to engage in water service delivery

USG assistance leading to mobilization of funding may include:

- advocacy for increased national and county budgets for WASH and allocation of public funds

- development of financial proposals, pipelines and financial products

- structuring and implementation of PPPs or GDAs

- creation of development credit guarantees

- capacity improvements that enhance creditworthiness of service providers or small businesses

2.3 Number of water

institutions strengthened to manage water resources or improve water supply and sanitation services as a result of USG assistance.

(Standard indicator HL 8.3-3)

At least 12 water institutions strengthened to manage water resources or improve water supply services, their asset management through testing different models, including public private partnership models, and improved credit worthiness as a result of USG assistance.

This indicator will measure the number of water sector institutions that demonstrate an improvement in governance based on an activity-specific institutional assessment index.

Institutions under this indicator may include:

- Local government/districts and jamoats

- Other types of water operators, such as civil society organizations.

Improvements will be measured using an institutional assessment considering:

- Human resources.

- Monitoring systems

- Financial management (budget execution, ability to pass an annual audit);

- Project planning and management of implementation

- Enforcement of policies (watershed protection, allocation systems)

- Equity (tariff setting, poor inclusive policy, gender mainstreaming policy)

- Accountability to stakeholders

2.4 Number of innovations

supported through USG assistance

(Standard Indicator

STIR-10)

At least 10 innovations supported through USG assistance (Standard Indicator STIR10)

Innovations’ are products, processes, tools, approaches, service delivery models, and/or other interventions (broadly defined) that have the potential to achieve significant (not incremental) improvements in development outcomes versus existing alternatives and are intended to improve the lives of ultimate beneficiaries. Here, innovations are defined not by their novelty, but by their potential to achieve significant improvements in development outcomes versus existing alternatives.

An innovation can be said to have ‘the potential to achieve significant improvements in development outcomes versus existing alternatives’ if a robust theory of change linking the innovation to such outcomes can be articulated.

2.6 Percent increase Water

fee collection rate

Water fee collection rate in each water service sites increased to 80 percent and above

Under this indicator, the contractor will look at water operators’ financial sheets and calculate the collection rate;

Objective 3: Increase engagement of communities in oversight and accountability of drinking water service providers

3.1 Number of district-

based feedback hotline services with customer service skills developed and institutionalized

(Custom Indicator) at least 12 target districts/communities feedback mechanisms such as hotline service

Under this indicator, USAID will talk number and quality of hotline services established in all target districts by using new technologies (electronic gadgets, communication applications) or, land line phones

3.2 Percent increase of

consumers approaching water operators

(Custom Indicator)

I Consumers approaching water operators (through hotline, This indicator tracks number of people approaching water operators through above mentioned hotline numbers, town hall meetings or visits to water operators’ offices), is increased by more than 50% against the baseline (desegregated by sex).

town hall meetings or visits to water operators’ offices), desegregated by sex. Any change will be measured against baseline in percentage.

6. SECTION F.6 Key Personnel

On Page 49 at the end of the Section, insert the following:

“For each of the three Key Personnel positions, suitable candidates with a bachelor’s degree and extensive relevant experience will fulfill the position requirements.”

7. SECTION F.7 Fixed Fee Payment Schedule

On Page 50, at the end of the table insert the following:

The contractor may propose the suggested percentages for the fixed fee payable for all proposed deliverables. Fixed Fees cannot be vouchered nor paid to the Contractor until the deliverable has been inspected and accepted by USAID as governed by FAR Part 46 and FAR 52.46-5. Each deliverable is considered one method for USAID to inspect the corresponding supplied service however nothing in this section prohibits USAID from inspecting the services provided by other methods.

FAR 15.404-4 provides guidance on proposed Fees that must be supported by the Offeror’s supporting budget documentation, including profit/fee policy, to substantiate all proposed costs.

The total proposed Fees must be justified based upon targets related to the primary objectives of the Project and will be negotiated prior to award.

8. SECTION H, insert the following:

“H.22 GRANTS UNDER CONTRACTS

The Contractor may be required to execute grants on behalf of USAID in performance of this award.

The following requirements apply to any grant to be awarded by a Contractor under the resulting contract:

a. USAID must have substantial involvement in the establishment of selection criteria and must approve the selection of grant recipients.

b. USAID retains the right to terminate the grant project (activities) unilaterally in extraordinary circumstances.

c. The Contractor is not authorized to execute or administer Cooperative Agreements on USAID's behalf. Requirements which apply to USAID-executed grants (per Automated Directives System 303) also apply to grants signed by the Contractor.

e. The total value of an individual grant to a U.S. organization must not exceed $100,000.

f. No grants may be made for construction activities.

g. Within 60 days after the effective date of the contract the contractor will develop and submit the Project Fund Manual, describing policies and procedures of sub-grant making process under this contract. The Manual should be developed in conjunction with the COR and will be subject to Contracting Officer approval. This Manual will ensure that all requirements which apply to USAID-executed grants also apply to grants awarded under this contract.

Grants may be included in the Performance Work Statement and considered under this contract.

However, no grants can be issued until the Head of the Contracting Activity (HCA) at the USAID/CA Mission approves grants as stipulated in ADS 302.3.4.13. In addition, all requirements of ADS 302.3.5.6, including the usage of agency policy and requirements, the ability of USAID to terminate grant activities, and USAID involvement in establishing selection criteria and the selection of recipients must be followed.”

9. SECTION K - REPRESENTATIONS, CERTIFICATIONS AND OTHER

STATEMENTS OF THE OFFEROR , pages 84-91

Delete all of Section K and insert new Section K. Please see Attachment J.11

10. SECTION L.6.2, is revised as follows:

Page 97, halfway down under Technical Proposal delete

“3. Management Approach:

i. Draft Year One Work Plan

ii. Draft Activity Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Plan.”

Page 97, Annex 4

Delete “see Attachment J.5” and Insert “see Attachment J.9,”

Page 100, Overall Past Performance, 2nd bullet point:

Delete “5%” and insert “25%”

11. SECTION L.6.3, Technical Proposal Annexes, Annex 4 Past Performance Information

Delete “Use the template provided in Attachment J.5. to respond to instructions in L.7.2.4 Past Performance, Paragraph A.1.”

And

Insert “Use the template provided in Attachment J.9. to respond to instructions in L.5 and L.6.2.”

12. SECTION L.7, INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PREPARATION OF THE

COST/BUSINESS PROPOSAL

Add the following as the last paragraph under Indirect Costs on page 106:

“Fixed fee (if any). FAR 15.404-4 provides for establishing the profit or fee portion of the Government pre-negotiation objective and provides profit-analysis factors for analyzing profit or fee. Propose fee with rationale supported by application of the profit analysis factors. The offeror should propose percentages of the fixed fee to be paid with each deliverable in accordance with Section F.6. This information must only be included in the Cost Proposal.”

[END OF AMENDMENT 1]