72049721RFI00002 UWASSH.pdf

Subject: REQUEST FOR INFORMATION & SOURCE SOUGHT NOTICE Program Title: USAID Indonesia Urban Water, Sanitation, Solid Waste and Hygiene

(UWASSH)

Release Date: February 2, 2021 Response Due Date and Time: February 23, 2021, 8:00 AM Jakarta Time Response Email Address: proposals-indo@usaid.gov

Dear Interested Parties:

The United States Agency for International Development Mission to Indonesia (USAID Indonesia) is gathering information to support an anticipated design of new activities under the Urban Water, Sanitation, Solid Waste and Hygiene (UWASSH) program, administered through the Grant Implementation Agreement (GIA) with the Indonesian Ministry of National Development Planning / National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas), as described in the Attachment.

A. Request for Information (RFI)

The purpose of this RFI is to solicit public feedback on the attached draft concept of the Urban Water, Sanitation, Solid Waste and Hygiene (UWASSH) program. Interested parties, including government, non-government organizations, academia, and the private sector are invited to provide recommendations to support the Government of Indonesia to expand access to safely managed drinking water and sanitation, increase the resilience of these services to climate-related shocks and stresses, and reduce land-based sources of ocean plastic pollution through improved solid waste management and recycling actions.

The issuance of this RFI is not a commitment to issue a solicitation, contract, grant, or cooperative agreement. Any future solicitations or funding opportunities to the new activities under UWASSH program will be announced on the Federal Business Opportunities website at https://beta.sam.gov or at www.grants.gov at a later date.

USAID Indonesia is not seeking technical or cost applications/proposals at this time.

Submission instructions for this RFI are provided in Section IV.A of the Attachment.

B. Sources Sought Notice (SSN) http://www.fbo.gov/ https://beta.sam.gov/ http://www.fbo.gov/ http://www.grants.gov/ http://www.grants.gov/

Additionally, this is an SSN to identify qualified organizations that are interested in and capable of performing the type of work described in the Attachment. Your responses to the information requested will assist USAID to plan the acquisition strategy, including whether a U.S. small business set-aside is possible.

Submission instructions for this SSN are provided in Section IV.B of the Attachment.

USAID Indonesia is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information, answer questions, or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. Please note issuance of this RFI/SSN does not constitute an award commitment on the part of the U.S. Government, nor does it commit the Government to pay for any costs incurred in the preparation of comments.

Thank you for your assistance and interest in USAID programs.

Sincerely, /s/ Albert Carrera Contracting/Agreement Officer USAID/Indonesia

RFI USAID Indonesia Urban Water, Sanitation, Solid Waste and Hygiene (UWASSH) Program

ATTACHMENT

I. RESPONSE GUIDELINES

Comments and questions on the draft concept note of the UWASSH program should not exceed three (3) pages.

Please review the purpose (Attachment, Section II) and comment on the draft concept note (Attachment, Section III). USAID is interested in the following questions: How and using what approaches can USAID assist the Government of Indonesia (GOI) to target safely managed water and sanitation goals? How can USAID help sustain improved performance of UWASSH service providers and expand service coverage? How and where can USAID best engage with the private sector to achieve program goals? Are there any opportunities or anticipated challenges, particularly concerning with recovery from the COVID-19 global pandemic, in achieving these goals?

II. PURPOSE

The UWASSH program seeks to strengthen urban environmental management through improved access to safely managed drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene in Indonesia, increased urban resilience and water security, and improved solid waste management. The UWASSH program will support Indonesia’s goals under the National Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) 2020-2024 to reduce inequality, improve infrastructure for basic services, and increase resiliency (National Priorities 2, 5, and 6).

In close partnership with the GOI, USAID will also support Indonesia to achieve their Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) targets to ensure access to water and sanitation for all (SDG 6), to make cities and settlement inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable (SDG 11), and to ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns (SDG 12).

The draft Result Framework for new activities under the UWASSH program is as follows:

III. DRAFT CONCEPT

Indonesia has made considerable progress in the water supply and sanitation sector over the past twenty years. As of 2019, 89 percent of households in Indonesia had access to improved drinking water, and 77 percent had access to improved sanitation facilities. In 1994, only 38 and 28 percent of Indonesia households had access to these services, respectively. In 2016, the urban population represented 54 percent of the total population or 142 million people. With a 2.3 percent urban growth rate, more than 63.4 percent of Indonesians will live in densely populated urban areas by 2030 and urgently require universal water and sanitation service delivery. Just 7.5 percent of the population currently have access to safely managed sanitation services and only 20 percent have access to piped water.

Only 13 percent of the poorest 40 percent of the Indonesian households own toilets attached to septic tanks, 64 percent use rudimentary sanitation facilities, and 23 percent practice open defecation. In water supply provision, 62 percent of the B40 population relies on unsafe groundwater sources for drinking purposes, resulting in poor health and nutrition.

In solid waste sector, more than 187.2 million Indonesia’s coastal population generates

3.22 million tons per year of mismanaged waste, leaking an estimated 0.48-1.29 million metric tons of plastic waste into the ocean annually1. As a result, Indonesia ranks only

1 The 2015 Jambeck Science study examined volume of land-based plastics leakage in 192 coastal countries (93 percent of the global population) and estimated that 2.5 billion metric tons of municipal solid waste was generated in 2010 by 6.4 billion people living in these countries second to China as the world’s top ocean plastic polluter and contributes to 14% of the total amount of plastic waste ending up in global waters.

It is estimated that 60 percent of Indonesia’s 142 million urban residents have access to waste collection services2. From approximately 105,000 tons of daily generated municipal solid waste in Indonesian urban areas of which 63 percent is organic waste and 13 percent is plastic, only about half is collected and most waste is not properly disposed of in sanitary landfills. The majority of these collection services are arranged by the community level, while for recyclables, especially plastic, 80 percent rely on the informal waste pickers.

The RPJMN 2020-20243 aims to achieve an economic growth rate of 6 percent and place Indonesia to be one of the high-income countries by 2045. As part of this “Vision 2045,” Indonesia seeks to enhance water security and achieve SDG targets related to access to safe water and sanitation for all, with the following interim mid-term development targets by 2024: 100 percent access to improved water supply system, including 15 percent access to safely managed drinking water supply services; 10 million new water connections; 90 percent access to improved sanitation services, including 15 percent access to safely managed sanitation; 100 percent open defecation free; 20 percent solid waste reduced at source, and 80 percent solid waste handled.

Additionally, Indonesia aims to increase the availability of integrated drinking water and sanitation services in the priority city/district, conduct vulnerability assessments to increase climate and disaster-prone resilient water and sanitation infrastructure, and reduce the country’s contribution to ocean plastic by 70 percent by 2025.

Given the need for massive investment in WASSH infrastructure and broad changes in individual and collective behaviors to achieve the RPJMN targets by 2024, with an estimated required investments of IDR396.72 trillion (US$7.36 billion), GOI is acutely aware of the importance of involving communities, households, and the private sector at every stage. Closing the financing gap will require diverse resource investments, reducing costs, increasing tariff, taxes and transfers, and exploring alternative financing tools. Market-based solutions that can connect unserved and underserved populations to WASH products and services may help close this financing gap.

Ongoing USAID Indonesia activities under the UWASSH program include Indonesia Urban Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Penyehatan Lingkungan Untuk Semua (IUWASH

2 USAID 2020 Rapid Assessment of the Municipal Solid Waste Management Sector in Indonesia: Opportunities for Engagement https://dec.usaid.gov/dec/content/Detail_Presto.aspx?vID=47&ctID=ODVhZjk4NWQtM2YyMi00YjRmLTkxNjktZTcxMjM2NDBmY2U y&rID=NTcxNjc0

3 RPJMN 2020-2024 https://www.bappenas.go.id/id/berita-dan-siaran-pers/rancangan-rencana-pembangunan-jangka-menengah-nasional-rpjmn-2020-2024/ https://www.bappenas.go.id/id/berita-dan-siaran-pers/rancangan-rencana-pembangunan-jangka-menengah-nasional-rpjmn-2020-2024/ https://www.iuwashplus.or.id/?lang=en https://dec.usaid.gov/dec/content/Detail_Presto.aspx?vID=47&ctID=ODVhZjk4NWQtM2YyMi00YjRmLTkxNjktZTcxMjM2NDBmY2Uy&rID=NTcxNjc0 https://dec.usaid.gov/dec/content/Detail_Presto.aspx?vID=47&ctID=ODVhZjk4NWQtM2YyMi00YjRmLTkxNjktZTcxMjM2NDBmY2Uy&rID=NTcxNjc0 https://www.bappenas.go.id/id/berita-dan-siaran-pers/rancangan-rencana-pembangunan-jangka-menengah-nasional-rpjmn-2020-2024/ https://www.bappenas.go.id/id/berita-dan-siaran-pers/rancangan-rencana-pembangunan-jangka-menengah-nasional-rpjmn-2020-2024/

PLUS) and Clean Cities Blue Oceans (CCBO). IUWASH PLUS (June 2016 - February 2022) is assisting the Government of Indonesia at the national level and across 35 municipalities to increase access to drinking water and sanitation services as well as improve key hygiene behavior among the urban poor and vulnerable populations.

CCBO (October 2020 - August 2024), a USAID Washington-managed project, aims to strengthen local solid waste management systems in three targeted municipalities to prevent waste leakage and improve ocean health.

USAID Indonesia and Bappenas have identified the following potential area of focus for the UWASSH program:

1. Increase access to safely managed water, sanitation and hygiene, and strengthen climate-resilient water resources management.

2. Catalyze and grow local and national markets for water, sanitation and hygiene products and services.

3. Reduce land-based sources of ocean plastic pollution through improved solid waste management and recycling actions.

4. Promote market-based solutions to reduce plastic waste and accelerate Indonesia's progress toward a circular economy.

IV. RESPONSES SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

A. Request for Information (RFI)

All comments and recommendations to the questions presented in Section I of the Attachment (Response Guidelines) must be submitted electronically to proposals-indo@usaid.gov with the subject title: “RFI: USAID/Indonesia New Urban Water, Sanitation, Solid Waste and Hygiene (UWASSH) Program”, no later than the date/time stated above.

The submitted response should include:

Reference: USAID Indonesia New Urban Water, Sanitation, Solid Waste and Hygiene Program Organization Name:

Point of contact name and contact information:

Size and type of organization, including U.S. small businesses or other status if applicable (optional, when applicable):

Legal registration status in Indonesia (optional, when applicable):

https://www.iuwashplus.or.id/?lang=en https://urban-links.org/project/ccbo/

Attachments: Respondents may attach any documents that support your comments to the above questions.

B. Sources Sought Notice (SSN)

Interested qualified organizations should submit a tailored capability statement to proposals-indo@usaid.gov with the subject title: “SSN: USAID Indonesia New Urban Water, Sanitation, Solid Waste and Hygiene Program”, no later than the date/time stated above.

The cover page of the capability statement should include:

Reference: USAID Indonesia New Urban Water, Sanitation, Solid Waste and Hygiene Program Organization Name:

Point of contact name and contact information:

Size and type of organization, including U.S. small business or other status if applicable (optional, when applicable):

DUNS Number:

Legal registration status in Indonesia (optional, when applicable):

All proprietary information should be marked as such. Responses will be reviewed only by USAID personnel and will be held in a confidential manner.

No electronic confirmation acknowledging receipt of your response nor individualized feedback on any suggestions will be given. No basis for claims against the U.S.

Government shall arise as a result of a response to this RFI/SSN or from the Government’s use of such information. Specific questions about this RFI/SSN should be directed only to the email addresses identified above.

[END OF RFI/SSN]

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