95332419Q00440001_US.pdf

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Millennium Challenge Corporation Contracts and Grants Management Division 1099 Fourteenth Street NW Suite 700 Washington DC 20005

TO All Quoters

Andrew Lee

RFQ 95332419Q0044

Questions and answers

1. Can you please confirm whether international firms (not US registered companies) are also entitled to submit and that not only US registered companies are eligible for this RFQ?

A – Yes, all companies (international and US-Based) are welcome to apply to this RFQ. The company must be registered and active in SAM before the deadline for submitting the quotes.

2. Based on Annex 3, Section C, C7, can you please confirm that the company selected for this assignment would be in conflict of interest to implement a future contract procured under the compact program related to the Youth and Female Entrepreneurship Support Activity in Tunisia?

A – Please follow guidance in FAR 9.505, FAR 9.505-2 and MCC 52.209-70.

3. We understand that the deadline to submit a full offer is the 30th April. Could you please indicate if the dossier can be submitted electronically?

A – Yes, please follow submission instructions in Section L and submit the quote package electronically by email.

4. Regarding the RFP for the “Consultancy Services for a Design Study for Youth and Female Entrepreneurship” (Reference Number: 95332419Q0044), I would like to know whether a Canadian organization is eligible to submit a proposal.

A – Yes, a Canadian organization is eligible to apply to this RFQ. The company must be registered and active in SAM before the deadline for submitting the quotes.

5. Can MCC provide bidders with the estimated Level of effort (in hours or days), or the budget that has been allocated for the study?

A – This is a firm fixed price contract and LOE and the budget will not be provided. Please provide your best price estimate how much it will cost the company to complete the SOW.

6. Is there flexibility regarding the team structure? Can bidders add additional roles to the non-key personnel positions?

A - Yes. Bidders are encouraged to propose a mix of non-key positions they deem will be necessary to successfully implement the tasks. The Key Personnel is required.

7. In the RFQ, CLIN 0008 states that “Design and implement a Beneficiary Survey” is an optional task.

Can MCC provide more details as to why it is optional and what is meant by that activity? Would the selected firm be in charge of hiring enumerators for the beneficiary survey if they decide to include that activity in their proposal?

A – MCC will determine at the time of the award if this Survey will be needed. The selected firm would be required to implement and oversee all aspects of the beneficiary survey, including hiring of enumerators.

8. Will the bidder selected for this study be conflicted out of implementing the Youth and Female

Entrepreneurship Support Activity and/or evaluating it in the future?

A - Please follow the guidance in FAR 9.505, FAR 9.505-2, FAR 9.505-3 and MCC 52.209-70.

9. The solicitation mentions several times the lack of data related to youth and women’s employment in Tunisia as preventing evidence-based interventions related to women and youth’s economic development.

Is this study meant to collect that data or, using secondary data and some primary qualitative data collection, help inform the Youth and Female Entrepreneurship Support Activity?

A - The only primary quantitative data collection would be carried out through the Beneficiary Survey

(optional task). MCC has collected information and data on the subject that will be shared with the selected firm. The selected firm will rely on these sources as well as carry out additional needed qualitative data collection needed to inform activity design.

10. Does MCC have a general idea of the beneficiary size of the target population (i.e. the number of current women and youth business owners looking to scale their businesses in sectors targeted for intervention under the compact, which include transportation, ICT, agribusiness, and logistics)?

A - The selected firm will support MCC with determining the beneficiary size.

11. Page 17 of the RFQ states that there will be field missions however page 25 only lists one trip/field mission for the Team Leader and Expert. Can MCC confirm only one trip to Tunisia for a field mission is expected?

A – Approximately one two-week trip is expected for the field mission for two people.

12. Can MCC confirm that the selected firm will need to provide its own office space and all transportation in Tunis and around Tunisia?

A - Yes, these will be the responsibility of the firm.

13. Task 1 of the assignment includes a kick off meeting with the Government of Tunisia and MCC. Is this meeting expected to be in person in Tunisia?

A - This meeting will be either in person in Washington, DC or done remotely via Skype.

14. Task 6 of the assignment is stated as “Analyze the information collected via the field mission and the Beneficiary Survey and present recommendations in a draft Activity design paper (Deliverable #6)”. Is

MCC referring to the optional Beneficiary Survey (listed as Option Task #8) or another beneficiary survey. Please clarify.

A - MCC is referring to the Optional Beneficiary Survey.

15. How should bidders include a budget option for Task #8 beneficiary survey if they opt to include that task in their technical submissions in their financial proposals?

A – MCC requires the price for CLIN 0008 to be included together with all other CLINs in one Excel file.

16. In regards to Section L, page 43: “All references need to be provided including the project name, client name, and duration, total dollar value of the contract, and contact phone number and email. MCC reserves the right to contact listed references and any other reference not listed by the Contractor.” Are offerors expected to request that the client POC, referenced in their respective PPQ(s), fill out any portion of the PPQ?

A - The quoters are expected to provide responses to the narrative summary examples, from a) through d), listed on page 43, and also provide past performance examples in the matrix provided.

17. In terms of the workplan and timeline, is there flexibility for the timing of the field mission? Would

MCC be open to holding the three week field mission in October 2019 (versus August/September)?

A – While there is some flexibility on the team mission, it is not possible at this point to agree to an

October timeline.

18. Where shall we budget for the kick-off meeting to take place?

A – The kick off meeting budget should be included in the CLIN 0001, please see the table in Section B.3.

The location of the award’s kick off meeting will be in MCC’s HQ in Washington DC and companies with

HQs outside DC area will be able to join the kick off meeting remotely over skype.

19. We would like to request a deadline extension for the Design Study for Youth and Female

Entrepreneurship Support Activity in Tunisia.

A – Unfortunately MCC will not be able to grant the extension. The procurement timeline until the award is short, we are expecting to make an award in June 2019.