STARR-II-Fact-Sheet.pdf

STARR II IDIQ Fact Sheet – 2018 1

Key IDIQ Contract Facts

Ceiling: $650 Million

Period of Performance:

July 20, 2018 – July 19, 2025

Available for Mission Buy-in: Yes

Geographic Scope: Global

STRENGTHENING

TENURE AND RESOURCE

RIGHTS (STARR) II IDIQ

A GLOBAL IDIQ FOR LAND TENURE, PROPERTY RIGHTS, AND RESOURCE GOVERNANCE

The STARR II IDIQ—managed by the E3/Land and Urban Office—is a $650 million, multi-faceted field support mechanism available for field Missions and other USAID Offices and Bureaus to buy in to for activities through July 2025. STARR II is designed to provide short- and long-term technical assistance to improve land tenure, property rights, and resource governance through targeted interventions or integrated activities in support of broader development objectives.

Given the cross-cutting nature of property rights and resource governance issues, Task Orders under

STARR II can cover a wide variety of sectors, including: food security, economic growth, conflict mitigation and management, democracy and governance, environment and natural resource management, artisanal and small-scale mining, and key self-reliance issues, such as domestic resource mobilization and women’s economic empowerment. USAID’s Land and Urban Office in the E3 Bureau has a cross-cutting team of lawyers, economists, researchers, geospatial specialists and other technical experts available to assist missions in planning and designing activities under STARR II.

CONTRACT OVERVIEW

STARR II is a flexible, multiple-award Indefinite Delivery

Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract managed by the E3/Land and Urban Office in Washington. Mission and other Operating

Units can buy in to STARR for Task Orders with a period of performance through July 2025. STARR II can be used to support several strategic USG foreign assistance initiatives and earmarks, including:

• Domestic Resource Mobilization

• Locally-Led Development

• Democracy and Rule of Law

• Gender Equality and Women’s

Empowerment

• Economic Growth

• Conflict Mitigation and Management

• Feed the Future

• Sustainable Landscapes

• Disaster Response and Management

• Biodiversity and Natural Resource

Management

• Resilience and Climate Change

Mitigation and Adaptation

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TECHNICAL SERVICES

STARR II’s four primary technical areas are: 1) Securing Resource Rights and Improving Resource

Governance; 2) Evidence and Learning; 3) Training; 4) Knowledge Management and Communications.

Within these four technical areas, the IDIQ covers a wide range of topics related to land and resource governance including, for example: land administration, legal/policy reform, customary rights recognition, land use planning, community-based adjudication of land disputes, rangeland management, urban property rights, public outreach on land rights issues, and land allocation and land use in sensitive ecological zones.

IDIQ PARTNERS

The STARR II IDIQ, with four large business and three small business consortiums, allows USAID to leverage the expertise and experience of deep pool of respected implementing partners, universities, NGOs, and local partners.

CONTACT

COR

Ioana Bouvier (ibouvier@usaid.gov)

E3/Land and Urban Office

Tel: 202-712-5835

A/COR

Sarah Lowery (slowery@usaid.gov)

E3/Land and Urban Office

Tel: 202-712-1580

STARR II CONSORTIUMS

Prime Contractors Subcontractors

Abt Associates Cloudburst, PACT, ICMA, ILRI, Texas A&M, Trimble, Banyan Global, CIFOR, Land Equity International, Cadasta, NCSC

Chemonics Manatron, Inc, Niras Gruppen A/S, Integra, Overseas Strategic Consulting, Acorn International, Vizonomy, National Opinion Research Center (NORC), The Trustees of Indiana University, Arizona State University, Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resources Management, The Nature Conservancy, Plan International, Search for Common Ground, Environmental Law Institute, The Rainforest Foundation

DAI COWI A/S (DK), Environmental Law Institute, IMPAQ, IIED, Michigan State University, Mobile Accord International, Resource Equity, Slum Dwellers International, Spectrum Media

Tetra Tech ARD Columbia University, Global Communities, InnoLA Solutions, Kanava International, Land Alliance, Landesa, Mendez England & Associates, RESOLVE, SSG Advisors, Winrock International, World Resources Institute

Small Business Consortiums

The Cloudburst Group Abt Associates Inc, SUNY/CID, CDR Associates, Duke Development Lab, IHC Global, ICMA, International Forestry Resources and Institutions Network, University of Michigan (IFRI), Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture (The Texas A&M University System), Samriddhi Foundation, Social Impact, Trimble, Green Powered Technology

Development Innovations Group

AECOM, Habitat for Humanity International, Crown Agents, DAI, Landesa, Winrock International

ECODIT NCBA CLUSA, ACDI/VOCA, Training Resources Group, Inc (TRG), Environmental Law Institute, Ferguson Lynch, World Resources Institute mailto:ibouvier@usaid.gov mailto:slowery@usaid.gov