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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Listing of Incorporated Purchase Requisitions Section B - Supplies or Services and Prices/Costs Section C - Description/Specifications/Work Statement Section D - Packaging and Marking Section E - Inspection and Acceptance Terms Section F - Delivery or Performance Section G - Contract Administration Data Section H - Special Contract Requirements Section I - Contract Clauses Section J - List of Documents, Exhibits, and other Attachments Section K - Representations, Certifications, and Other Statements of Offerors Section L - Instructions, Conditions and Notices to Offerors Section M - Evaluation Factors for Award

Listing of Incorporated Purchase Requisitions

Incorporated Purchase Requisition Numbers:

Section B - Supplies or Services and Prices/Costs

Item Number Base Item Number

Supplies/Services Quantity Unit

0001 Tunisia Enterprise Survey 0 Contract Type:Firm Fixed Price

Unit Price Extended Price

Description:

Tasks 1-10 Estimated Duration: 6 months

Purchase Requisitions

IDC Type: Not Applicable

Item Number Base Item Number

Supplies/Services Quantity Unit

0002 Option: Task 11 - Data Analysis and Technical Report (Tunisia

Enterprise Survey)

Contract Type:Firm Fixed Price Unit Price

Extended Price

Description:

Task 11, Data Analysis and Technical Report Estimated Duration: 2 months

Purchase Requisitions

Option: 1 Option Time Date: 12/2/19 Option Time Duration: 60 Option Time Units: Days IDC Type: Not Applicable

Clauses incorporated by reference

None

Clauses incorporated by full text

52.216-1 52.216-1 Type of Contract (APR 1984) The Government contemplates award of a Firm Fixed Price contract resulting from this solicitation.

(End of provision)

Funding Type Funding Type

This contract will be funded, at thetime of award, with no-year Due Diligence funding. As such, funding obligated to this contract may be used during the life of the contract.

Pricing details

Firm-Fixed Price Breakdown: Labor Rates & Other Direct Costs (ODCs)

Identify the proposed number of hours and burdened labor rate for each key personnel and non-key personnel and list all Other Direct Costs (ODCs) required to complete the effort.

Offerors are expected to provide enough detail on the ODCs to permit a fair assessment of the price quote. Categories such as transportation, lodging, number of non-essential personnel by type and their days/hours and salaries, computer software and hardware and other costs should be distinguished, as well as any subcontract costs.

*Note that although pricing is requested in a time-and-materials (T&M) format (to understand the breakdown), this will be a firm-fixed price contract; the Contractor will be paid at agreed-upon payment milestones per Section F.3.3.*

Using the template below, Offerors must include all proposed labor categories, fully-burdened hourly rates, Other Direct Costs (ODCs) and G&A information for each contract period identified above. As shown, separate quotes are requested for CLINs 0001 and 0002. See Scope of Work in Section C for a description of tasks covered under each CLIN.

CLIN 0001 – Period of Performance TBD (est. 6 months)

Item # Description(1) U/I Qty Rate Total

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OTHER DIRECT COSTS (ODCs)

CLIN 0001 – Period of Performance TBD (est. 6 months)

Item # Description(1) U/I Qty Rate Total

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Total Firm-Fixed Price (Base Period)

CLIN 0002 – Period of Performance TBD (est. 2 months)

Item # Description(1) U/I Qty Rate Total

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Labor Sub-Total

OTHER DIRECT COSTS (ODCs)

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Total Firm-Fixed Price (Option)

NOTE (1): A job description shall be included for each labor category proposed. The job description must identify essential and non-essential tasks that are assigned to a specific position.

It must also identify reporting relationships and shall also describe required qualifications, minimum requirements, working conditions and desirable qualifications.

(End of SECTION B)

Section C - Description/Specifications/Work Statement

Statement of Work

BACKGROUND

The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is a U.S. Government agency whose mission is to provide assistance that will support economic growth and poverty reduction in carefully selected countries that demonstrate a commitment to just and democratic governance, economic freedom, and investments in their citizenry. Eligible countries develop specific investment programs in furtherance of the goal of economic development to be funded by MCC over a five-year period and implemented by the country partner. For more information on the MCC, please visit www.mcc.gov.

In December 2016, Tunisia was selected by MCC's Board as eligible to develop a five-year grant program, known as a Compact. The Compact is aimed at addressing the binding constraints to investment and entrepreneurship in Tunisia, as identified by a growth diagnostics exercise conducted in early 2017. The growth diagnostics exercise, known as the Constraints Analysis (CA), identified several binding constraints. One of the key identified constraints was an unfavorable business climate, under which investors and businesses face excessive bureaucratic requirements, restricted entry and exit into many activities, burdensome and unclear customs and tax procedures, and an un-level playing field against competitors.

The Tunisian government has committed to developing a Compact aimed at alleviating this constraint, and has proposed several potential project areas. These areas may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Administrative simplification and digitization of authorizations and other legal and administrative requirements to increase transparency, reduce discretion in the application of rules, promote firm entry and competition in a range of sectors, and create a more "level playing field" among firms in Tunisia.

• Reform, simplification, and digitalization of customs procedures, to reduce the time and monetary burden on exporting and importing firms, increase transparency and reduce corruption in customs, as well as making Tunisia compliant with the Trade Facilitation Agreement of the World Trade Organization.

• Reforms in the transport and logistics sector to promote competition, growth, and efficiency in this sector, thereby lowering costs for a wide range of firms across the economy that rely on transport and logistics services.

• Measures to increase opportunities for women in the economy, both as entrepreneurs in the above sectors and other sectors, and as salaried employees.

OBJECTIVE

The objective of this Request for Quote (RFQ) is to receive information about prospective contractors' capabilities to provide professional services to collect data from firms on the following topics:

1. Basic enterprise information such as firm age, size, industry, and revenues.

2. Firms' experience with different aspects of the business environment related to the following:

• Customs procedures

• Authorizations

• Transportation and logistics

• Perceptions of transparency and fairness in treatment by government agencies

• Other areas related to business environment

3. Firms' practices with regard to hiring and promoting women and the perceived costs and benefits to doing so.

The information obtained in the survey will help MCC and the Government of Tunisia to determine the most significant problems of business climate facing different types of firms in the areas listed under Topic 2 (above). It will be used to develop appropriate programs to improve the business climate as well as to estimate the economic rates of return of the potential reforms using cost benefit analysis.

Regarding Topic 2, the information to be included in the survey collected may include, for example, time and cost to receive authorizations such as construction permits or customs approvals; number of forms or visits required per application; firms' perceptions of the most burdensome regulations they face; experience with corruption; key constraints to exporting or importing, etc. The survey will have elements in common with other surveys administered in Tunisia such as the World Bank Enterprise Survey and the ITCEQ survey on business climate, but is intended to provide more detail on the specific areas listed above.

SCOPE OF WORK

The scope of work includes the following tasks:

CLIN 0001:

1. Work plan development: The contractor will draft and submit a work plan with expected deadlines for deliverables. It should include plans related to finalizing the survey instrument, training, enumerator training manuals, testing and piloting, data collection instruments, field manuals, data collection implementation, data cleaning, and data analysis report. (Note: the draft survey instrument will be initially developed by MCC but will need to be refined based on piloting and feedback from the contractor). (Section J, Progress Report and Work Plan contains a reference for the work plan)

2. Survey protocol development: The contractor should provide a document summarizing all survey protocols related to the sampling frame, drop criteria, replacement strategy, target respondents, informed consent, and protection of human subjects, interview techniques, security, and data quality. The contractor is expected to propose a sample, which will be representative of urban enterprises at the national and regional level. Urban areas in each of the six regions of the country will be covered by the survey, with potential over-sampling in a few key regions to be determined in discussion with MCC. The contractor may propose random stratified sampling according to characteristics such as number of employees and industry or sector for businesses. In total, 1,500 businesses should be interviewed and the sampling design must allow for refusals or incorrect listings and propose a rigorous approach to replacement. The contractor is expected to work on sampling with the national statistical agency, Institut National de la Statistique (INS) in order to use Répertoire National des Entreprises (RNE), as the sampling frame for the survey. (MCC will facilitate access to the RNE). However, alternative sampling approaches may be possible, subject to approval by MCC.

3. Survey instrument review: MCC will provide the contractor with a first draft of the survey questionnaire, which the contractor will use as reference for review and comment. MCC will provide final approval on the survey instrument, English or French version. Note regarding questionnaire length, it is expected that each interview will take no more than 1 hour to complete.

4. Developing Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) program. Use of this approach, whereby interview data are entered directly into a software program on a tablet or laptop computer, is preferred to ensure data quality. The contractor is expected to develop the software program for entering the survey data. While this approach is preferred, proposals for using traditional 'Paper and Pencil' Interviewing will also be considered, provided adequate provisions are made to ensure data entry accuracy and data quality.

5. Obtaining Institutional Review Board (IRB) approvals: The contractor must initiate necessary in-country IRB authorization for use of human subjects in social research as early as possible so as not to cause any delays in the data collection.

6. Survey testing and piloting: In accordance with its testing and piloting plan, the contractor will pilot the survey instrument, sampling approach, and data collection tools. The piloting should involve at least 50 firms in different locations and of different sizes and sectors. The contractor will train supervisors who will conduct the piloting. The contractor will submit a pilot report including clean data from the pilot. The contractor will work with MCC to revise the instrument based on the pilot findings. Note that given the length and nature of the survey, interviews with firms must be conducted in person, that is, 'face to face' (not by phone or online).

7. Selection of sample for the survey: The sample is expected to be drawn by the Contractor from the Répertoire National des Entreprises (RNE), with stratified random sampling using strata determined in discussion with MCC.

(As noted, the contractor may proposal alternative sampling frames with appropriate justification for these methods to demonstrate that they will generate a representative sample of firms).

8. Training for data collection: The contractor will hire and train the supervisors and interviewers in accordance with the training plan developed. MCC and the contractor will provide training of trainers before the main data collection training. It is expected that the contractor will recruit an adequate number of interviewers for the training so as to be able to retain only those who demonstrate the necessary skills on tests and evaluations at the end of the training. The contractor will prepare training materials (e.g. enumerator training manual and PowerPoint presentations), which MCC will review and validate. The training should cover the entire questionnaire and all survey protocols. It should also include how to use the tablet (if CAPI is used), mock interviewing, pilot testing in the field, time for debrief, and a test to select interviewers. Basic information regarding business environment issues will also be included in the training to increase interviewers' understanding of the study context.

9. Implementing data collection and monitoring data quality: The contractor is responsible for implementing data collection and monitoring data quality in accordance to its relevant plans developed under Task 1.

10. Data cleaning and dataset preparation: The Contractor will provide clean data sets and a data collection report.

Missing values and refusals, if any, should be coded distinctly and consistently. All variables should be clearly named and labeled.

CLIN 0002:

11. Data analysis and technical report (Optional): The Contractor will prepare an analytical report (ideally in English if possible, but French is acceptable) summarizing the survey data for firms. MCC expects the following non-exhaustive topic areas to be included in the report: methodology and study limitations; characteristics of firms in the sample; burden of different kinds of authorizations, customs, and other regulations and procedures, analyzed by firm characteristics such as size, sector, and location; gender-related practices and perceptions, by firm characteristics. The report will consist of approximately 50-75 pages of text, tables and figures and contain a range of statistical analysis including primarily descriptive tables, cross tabulations, and correlation analysis, and interpretation. Refinement of topics and methods is expected based on discussion with MCC.

Note: Offerors are requested (in Section B) to provide separate price quotes for CLIN 0001, covering Tasks 1-10, and CLIN 0002, covering Task 11. Note that Task 11 is an option that MCC may or may not choose to exercise subject to contractor qualifications and performance on other tasks.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

MCC Responsibilities: The MCC, along with the contractor, play critical roles in designing, and implementing the data collection. The MCC roles are as follows:

1. Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC): MCC is responsible for oversight of the contractor, including the following specific responsibilities:

a. Contract and supervise the contractor;

b. Conduct quality reviews of all products (work plan, reports, questionnaires, etc.);

c. Facilitate public dissemination efforts to inform decision-makers on learning generated by the contractor;

d. Oversee preparation of public-use data that ensures appropriate balance of enabling verification of analysis and broad use of the data with adherence to promises of confidentiality to survey respondents; and

e. Determine the budget available for this project.

f. Support the contractor when dealing with legal and official matters such as getting IRB approval, working with INS on obtaining the enterprise registry information for sampling;

g. Provide letters of introduction to firms selected for the survey;

h. Facilitate public dissemination efforts as warranted.

2. Contractor: The Contractor is responsible for the overall implementation of the data collection and data preparation, including the following specific responsibilities:

a. Develop high-quality and feasible survey design and protocols.

b. Ensure appropriate review of survey instruments, research protocols, and consent forms by an institutional review board (IRB) and local research institutions;

c. Prepare for data collection including recruiting and training necessary personnel and piloting the survey instrument;

d. Assist in refining of the instrument following pilot, and prepare final instrument for fieldwork

e. Manage all phases of data collection;

f. Conduct data cleaning and verification, and provide data documentation and basic descriptive output for the survey variables;

g. Support MCC (when necessary and feasible) to build buy-in and ownership of research;

h. Conduct data analysis and draft technical report (option).

Section D - Packaging and Marking

DPE IE Section D DPE IE Section D D.1. Disclaimer of Deliverables

The Contractor shall ensure that each report prepared by the Contractor and delivered under this Contract contains the following statement on the first or cover page of such report:

"The views and opinions expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of MCC or any other U.S. Government entity."

(End of SECTION D)

Section E - Inspection and Acceptance Terms

DPE IE Section E DPE IE Section E

E1. Inspection of Reports

MCC only accepts full submittals, not partial submittals; submittals must be in full accordance with the Contractor's approved methodology and QA/QC plan.

E2. Quality Control Plan

The contractor shall have in place and maintain a Quality Assurance/Quality Control Plan (QA/QC) that covers, as a minimum, how the contractor intends to meet the requirements of all performance objectives, monitor and proactively manage contract requirements. It shall also include the mechanism by which MCC will be notified of performance-related incidents that are likely to affect quality of service.

(End of SECTION E)

Section F - Delivery or Performance

Line Item: 0001 Period Of Performance Start Date Period Of Performance End Date Period Of Performance Address

7/1/19 12/31/19 MCC Headquarters Millennium Challenge Corporation 1099 Fourteenth Street NW, Suite 700

WASHINGTON

US 20005

Line Item: 0002 Period Of Performance Start Date Period Of Performance End Date Period Of Performance Address

12/2/19 1/31/20 MCC Headquarters Millennium Challenge Corporation 1099 Fourteenth Street NW, Suite 700

WASHINGTON

US 20005

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F.1. Period of Performance

The overall anticipated period of performance of this contract is as follows:

CLIN 0001: Tasks 1-10 – Date of Award to 6 months after award (est. July – December 2019)

CLIN 0002: Task 11 – 2 months (est. December 2019 – January 2020)

F.2. Place of Performance

Generally, the Contractor shall perform services in Tunisia or at their home offices, as needed by MCC. During missions to Tunisia, the Contractor shall perform services on MCA Tunis' project sites, as needed by MCC. MCC may also require the

Contractor to travel to MCC offices in Washington, DC from time to time to perform services.

F.3. Deliverables

F.3.1. The Contractor should be aware that all final products (including reports and datasets) of the survey may be made publicly available on the MCC website as indicated below. Each of these final products are subject to MCC-facilitated peer review in order to assess the quality of the final product. In addition, all deliverables intended for public use must be Section 508 compliant--http://www.section508.gov.

F.3.2. As per Section H, the Contractor is responsible for ensuring that all public release documentation are reviewed to minimize any risk to respondent confidentiality. This may require submission of internal use only and public release reports.

F.3.3. In addition to the required reporting detailed at Section F.4, including the monthly progress report, the Contractor is responsible for the following deliverables:

Deliverables (CLIN 0001) Estimated Due Date % Paid of Total FFP upon Milestone Completion

Work plan including training plan, pilot testing data collection instruments, and data collection implementation (see Section J, Progress Report and Work Plan as a reference)

July 2019 10%

Document summarizing survey protocols including sample design

July 2019 20% after delivery and acceptance of both deliverables

CAPI program or formatted Draft Survey instrument in French

August 2019

Report on the pilot testing of the surveys including clean data from the pilot

September 2019 20% after delivery and acceptance of all the indicated deliverables

Training manual September 2019

Consent forms, other IRB materials September 2019

Data collection (fieldwork) report, documenting number of enterprises approached, refusals, replacements, and any issues encountered, by region and enterprise type, and how they were addressed.

November 2019 25% after delivery and acceptance of both deliverables

Data entry and cleaning report (including major issues encountered and how they were overcome), including basic statistics for all variables (number of responses, number missing, mean, median, min, max values)

November 2019

Complete clean dataset with data documentation (including variable names and responses code list)

December 2019 25% after delivery and acceptance http://www.section508.gov

Deliverables (CLIN 0002) Estimated Due Date % Paid of Total FFP upon Milestone Completion

Report outline and analysis plan December 2019 25% after delivery and acceptance

Final data analysis report January 2020 75% after delivery and acceptance

F.3.4. Due dates for all deliverables will be discussed with MCC and then included in the work plan and deliverable schedule during the inception period. The Contractor shall propose due dates in the proposal and methodology.

F.3.5. The work plan must include a timeline and staffing plan. The latter must describe the division of responsibilities and estimated LOE for each staff member according to deliverable and activity. The Contractor shall clearly demonstrate who performs what activity and when and for how long.

F.3.6. When provided, the Contractor must follow MCC-provided templates and guidelines for specific deliverables, such reports and progress reports.

F.4. Reporting Deliverables

F.4.1. The Contractor is required to submit a monthly Progress Report (see Section J, Progress Report and Work Plan as a reference) and any draft or final deliverables with each invoice. For travel, the Contractor should submit a draft Travel SOW to the PM (using a template to be provided by MCC) for review and approval before confirming travel.

F.5. Deliverable Format

Unless specifically instructed by MCC otherwise, all reports shall be submitted electronically using WINDOWS based MS- Office 2010 or newer, including WORD for text, data tables in EXCEL, appropriate MS-Office program for exhibits, and schedules using MS-Project 2010 or newer. Original drawing files, if any, should be submitted in AUTOCAD 2010 (or later), and also in .PDF printable version. Digital photos files, if any, should be submitted in .JPG format. The final survey dataset must be submitted in Stata format or similar alternative with all variables properly labeled and specified unique identifiers. (Stata is preferred, however, other commonly used programs such SPSS or SAS are possible, subject to MCC approval). Presentations, if any, should be prepared with MS PowerPoint 2010 or newer. All work files shall be submitted to MCC along with PDF files.

The Contractor must establish and maintain a comprehensive reference index of all relevant documents reviewed, produced, and/or edited by the Contractor. Any and all such documents made available to and collected by the Contractor must be compiled in usable form and delivered in an organized fashion to MCC at the end of the contract in electronic format acceptable to MCC, and if requested by MCC in hard copies. Such documents may also be requested periodically, prior to the end of the contract.

F.6. Acceptance Criteria

The deliverables will be evaluated according to the following criteria:

• Thoroughness and timeliness in complying with all of the elements in the tasks specified.

• Quality and clarity of analyses and work produced.

• Timeliness and efficacy of communications with relevant counterparts at MCC, MCA, and other relevant organizations.

(End of SECTION F)

Section G - Contract Administration Data

Requesting Office Address

MCC-HQ

Millennium Challenge Corporation Contracts and Grants Management Division 1099 Fourteenth St NW, Suite 700 Washington DC 20005-3550 Phone: 2025212648 Fax:

Contact Details:

Glick, Peter Jay glickpj@mcc.gov

Property Administration Office Address

MCC-HQ

Millennium Challenge Corporation Contracts and Grants Management Division 1099 Fourteenth St NW, Suite 700 Washington DC 20005-3550 Phone: Fax:

Contact Details:

COTR Office Address

MCC-HQ

Millennium Challenge Corporation Contracts and Grants Management Division 1099 Fourteenth St NW, Suite 700 Washington DC 20005-3550 Phone: 2025212648 Fax:

Contact Details:

Glick, Peter Jay glickpj@mcc.gov

Issuing Office Address

MCC-HQ

Millennium Challenge Corporation Contracts and Grants Management Division 1099 Fourteenth St NW, Suite 700 Washington DC 20005-3550 Phone: Fax:

Contact Details:

Whitley, Albert H whitleyah@mcc.gov

MCC 52.201-70 CONTRACTING OFFICER'S REPRESENTATIVE (COR) AND/OR PROJECT MONITOR

(PM) (JULY 2012)

(a) The Contracting Officer may designate a Government representative to act as the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) or Project Monitor (PM) to perform functions under the contract such as review and/or inspection and acceptance of supplies, services, including construction, and other functions of a technical nature. The Contracting Officer will provide a written notice of such designation to the COR and/or PM and the Contractor. The designation letters will set forth the authorities and limitations of the COR and/or PM under the contract.

(b) Modifications to this contract are effective only if reduced to writing and executed by the Contracting Officer. The Contractor is specifically prohibited from performing any work that is outside the scope of this contract without the approval of the Contracting Officer. The Contracting Officer cannot authorize the COR or any other representative to sign documents (i.e., contracts, contract modifications, etc.) that require the signature of the Contracting Officer.

(End of clause)

MCC 52.232-70 INVOICE INSTRUCTIONS (MAY 2017)

Invoices shall be paid in accordance with the Prompt Payment Act, thirty days (30) following receipt of a proper invoice.

The Contractor shall submit each invoice electronically via email or fax to the following:

Fax: 303.969.5151/7281 ATTN: MCC Payments, or

Email: MCC_Accounting_IBCDENVER@ibc.doi.gov, or

As an alternative to electronic submission of invoices, one copy of each invoice may be submitted to the following address:

Interior Business Center

M/S D-2773

7301 West Mansfield Avenue

Lakewood, CO 80235-2230

If it is determined that the amount billed is incorrect, the invoice may be revised by the Government, or the contractor may be required to submit a revised invoice.

To constitute a proper invoice, each invoice must include the following information and/or attached documentation:

(1) Name, address and telephone of the Contractor

(2) Date of invoice and invoice number

(3) Contract number (including task order or call number and contract line item(s)) also modification number, if applicable

(4) Description (quantity, unit of measure, unit price, and extended price) of the supplies/services rendered (including hours incurred and billing rate, as applicable to the contract)

(5) A schedule depicting the following information:

Amount Invoiced

This Period

Cumulative Amount Invoiced Authorized Value of Contract Balance Remaining on Contract

If the contractor is billing for costs incurred over more than a single month, the costs for each month in which the costs mailto:MCC_Accounting_IBCDENVER@ibc.doi.gov mailto:MCC_Accounting_IBCDENVER@ibc.doi.gov were incurred and shall be segregated into the month they were actually incurred.

(6) Name of Contracting Officer's Representative (COR); and

(7) Signature of authorized representative of the firm with the following invoice certification:

"The undersigned hereby certifies to the best of my knowledge and belief that: the sum claimed under this contract is proper and due, and all the costs of contract performance have been paid, or to the extent allowed under the applicable payment clause, will be paid by the Contractor when due in the ordinary course of business; the work reflected by these costs has been performed, and amounts involved are consistent with the requirements of this Contract.

BY:______________________________________

TITLE:___________________________________

DATE: ___________________________________

Inquiries regarding the status of invoices may be directed to NBC Accounting. The email address is:

MCC_Accounting_IBCDENVER@ibc.doi.gov.

Section H - Special Contract Requirements

DPE IE Section H DPE IE Section H

H.1. Peer Review and Posting of Reports

The Contractor understands and acknowledges that all products submitted under this Contract may be subjected to peer review at MCC's discretion, and that all such products and peer reviews, along with the names of the Contractor and peer reviewers, may be posted on MCC's website or otherwise made public in MCC's discretion.

Neither MCC nor the Government assumes any liability for the disclosure of such products or peer reviews.

Products include, but are not limited to, all reports, research protocols, questionnaires, other survey materials and other documents delivered by the Contractor under this Contract.

At its discretion, MCC may ask the Contractor to submit draft reports intended for public dissemination to MCC or its designee for disclosure review prior to release.

H.2. Insurance Maintenance

Neither MCC nor the Government shall in any event be liable or responsible for any damage or injury to any person or property occasioned by the action of the Contractor or the Contractor's employees or agents in performing under this Contract. It is recommended that the Contractor, at the Contractor's expense, maintain adequate insurance, including general liability and professional liability insurance, during the term of this Contract insuring the Contractor against all claims for injury or damage.

H.3. Human Subjects Protection

The Contractor shall comply with all laws and regulations applicable to the performance of its activities under this Contract, including but not limited to all applicable laws, rules, policies and procedures governing the use of human subjects in research and the protection of their privacy. In particular, the Contractor shall take all necessary steps to ensure that it complies with any data confidentiality and data protection requirements under applicable law.

Before any data collection for the survey begins, the Contractor will ensure that all protocols, survey instruments and informed consent procedures to be used as part of the study have been reviewed and approved by one or more (as applicable) institutional review boards (IRB) registered with the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The Contractor will provide evidence of such approval to MCC. To claim exemption from an IRB review, the Contractor must provide evidence to MCC that an OHRP-registered IRB has determined the Contractor's proposed research to be exempt from review for one of the reasons described in the HHS regulations found at 45 CFR 46.101(b). However, MCC retains final authority to determine whether any human subjects research study conducted or supported by MCC is exempt from review and approval by an IRB.

H.4. Personally Identifiable Information and Confidentiality

All Contractor employees or independent contractors engaged in this contract shall not divulge any information, whether obtained orally or in writing from, or data maintained by the MCC to any unauthorized person for any purpose. Contractor and contractor employees shall not directly or indirectly use, or allow the use of Confidential Information (including Personally Identifiable Information) for any other purpose other than that directly associated with their officially assigned duties for MCC. Further, the Contractor and contractor employees shall not directly or indirectly reveal or cause to be revealed the nature or content of any Confidential Information (including Personally Identifiable Information), except to authorized personnel. By signing this contract, the Contractor acknowledges that any unauthorized use of information may be a violation of law and this agreement. Authorized persons refers only to persons assigned to a project requiring access to Confidential Information (including Personally Identifiable Information) or directly in the line of management over the project requiring access to the data.

The Contractor shall provide a non-disclosure agreement letter signed by personnel working on the task.

Contractors responsible for handling Personally Identifiable Information should reference: 52.224-1 Privacy Act Notification (APR 1984); 52.224-2 Privacy Act (APR 1984). The link to view these clauses can be found here: http://www.acquisition.gov/far/.

In handling Personally Identifiable Information, the Contractor shall provide media sanitization procedures for the clearing or purging of MCC media in accordance with NIST SP 800-88, Guidelines for Media Sanitization.

Overwriting media by a Government approved technology, method, or tool is acceptable. Sanitization procedures will need to be accepted by the Government.

The Contractor shall provide written attestation of the media sanitization for any MCC data generated through this solicitation.

The Contractor is responsible for ensuring that all public release documentation is reviewed to minimize any risk to respondent confidentiality. This may require submission of internal use only and public release reports indicated in the Deliverables schedule as intended for public use.

The Government will provide an Excel document containing information of individuals who require a notification.

Transmission of this data will be provided through Accellion services. The Contractor shall ensure their hardware and software meet federal standards for PII data, in accordance with OMB 06-16 and NIST requirements.

H.5. Delivered Work Product Free from 3rd Party Rights

Upon delivery of any product under this Contract, the Contractor shall be deemed to have represented and warranted that such product does not infringe on any existing copyright, trademark, right of publicity or privacy, or any other third party right, and does not constitute the defamation or libel of any person, entity or product. The Contractor is solely liable for the content of any product delivered under this Contract.

H.6. Key Personnel

H.6.1. The key personnel identified below are considered to be essential to work performance. During the first ninety (90) days of performance, the Contractor shall make no substitutions of key personnel unless the substitution is necessitated by illness, death, or termination of employment.

H.6.2. The Contractor shall notify the Contracting Officer within 15 calendar days after the occurrence of any of these events and provide the information required by paragraph H.6.4 below.

H.6.3. After the initial 90-day period, the Contractor shall submit the information required by paragraph H.6.4 to the Contracting Officer at least 15 days prior to making any permanent substitutions or additions.

H.6.4. The Contractor shall provide a detailed explanation of the circumstances necessitating the proposed substitute(s); the résumé(s) of the proposed substitute(s); written certification that the proposed substitute(s) meets the key personnel qualification requirements identified below; and any additional information requested by the Contracting Officer. Proposed substitutes shall have comparable qualifications to those of the persons being replaced.

H.6.5. The Contracting Officer will notify the Contractor within fifteen (15) calendar days after receipt of all required information of the decision on substitutions. The contract will be modified to reflect any approved changes of key personnel.

The contractor will determine the composition of its team and describe the team's qualifications and task assignments. The contractor should also provide an organizational chart. The contractor should provide individual names and CVs for the Team Leader, and Data Collection Coordinator. Individual names and CVs for up to three non-key personnel is encouraged but not required.

The Contractor shall assign to this call order the following key personnel:

[To be completed by the Offeror]

____________________, Team Leader

____________________, Data Collection Coordinator

____________________, Data Manager

H.7. Key Personnel Qualifications

Team Leader

The Team Leader must meet or exceed the following minimum requirements:

- A master's-level degree (PhD preferred) in statistics, economics, or related field

- Five years' experience in designing, managing, or overseeing in-person (face-to-face) surveys of households and businesses (preferably in Tunisia and Middle East/North Africa region), experience with electronic data collection tools preferred.

- Three years of experience establishing survey protocols including designing cost-effective sampling strategies

- Fluency in French; Professional proficiency in English preferred

- Excellent knowledge of Stata or other similar statistical analysis software

- Excellent database management experience

- Excellent communication, facilitation, organization, and management skills and experience working with diverse teams and a wide range of stakeholders

- Experience writing detailed and concise implementation and analysis reports.

The Team Leader will have the following responsibilities:

- Liaise on a regular basis with MCC and other organizations involved in the study

- Lead and manage the study team

- Ensure quality control of all deliverables being submitted to MCC

- Ensure deliverables are submitted on time

- Provide technical oversight of instrument and survey protocol development

- Oversee the recruitment and general training of data collectors

- Provide direct supervision over the data collection coordinator and data analyst and provide overall supervision of all other staff

Data Collection Coordinator

The Data Collection Coordinator must meet or exceed the following minimum requirements:

- A bachelors-level degree in statistics, economics, or related field

- Three years' experience in coordinating in-person surveys of households and businesses in Tunisia; some experience in using electronic data collection tools preferred.

- Experience overseeing at least 20 enumerators in multiple teams

- Experience managing survey implementation issues and data quality monitoring

- Experience managing training for supervisors and interviewers is desired

- Fluency in French; Proficiency in English desired.

- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications for report writing and project management

- Excellent ability to manage diverse teams and organize logistics

- Pro-active problem solver

The Data Collection Coordinator will have the following responsibilities:

- Report to the Team Leader on a regular basis

- Identify data collection challenges; propose and manage measures to overcome challenges

- Manage data collection training and survey pilot testing.

- In close coordination with the Team Leader, plan and oversee all aspects of data collection

Data Manager

The Data Manager must meet or exceed the following minimum requirements:

- A bachelors-level degree in computer science, statistics, math, economics, or related field

- Three years' experience in overseeing data cleaning, data verification, and reporting for large scale representative surveys

- Expertise in automated and manual methods for checking data quality, including range and consistency checks

- Proficiency in managing data from computer assisted interviewing, including server or cloud based data management, is preferred.

- Experience preparing data sets for transmittal and analysis, including data documentation, de-identification, and encoding.

- Proficiency in French; Proficiency in English desired.

- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications for report writing and project management

The Data Manager will have the following responsibilities:

- Report to the Team Leader on a regular basis

- Oversee data cleaning, verification, and data management (and data entry for paper and pencil interviewing if applicable)

- Conduct quality and consistency checks on data and propose corrections

- Identify data management challenges; propose and manage measures to overcome challenges

- Prepare data set and documentation for transmittal and analysis

- In close coordination with the Team Leader, plan and oversee all aspects of data cleaning and management.

Non-Key Personnel

MCC anticipates the following non-key personnel positions may be required: one administrative and finance assistant, one data analyst, four to eight field supervisors, and 25-50 interviewers. These positions are illustrative and the contractor may propose different positions and number of staff.

H.8. Requirements of the Contractor

The contractor must have experience carrying out enterprise and/or household surveys using internationally accepted best practice methods for survey sampling, interviewing, data cleaning and verification, and data management. Experience conducting such surveys in Tunisia and/or the Middle East/North Africa region is required. Being based in, or having a permanent presence in, Tunisia or the Middle East/North Africa region is considered a positive factor.

MCC 52.203-70 CONTRACTOR NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT (MAY 2017)

All contractor employees or independent contractors engaged in this contract shall provide a non-disclosure agreement as follows signed by the individual contractor/consultant and, if a contractor employee, by the contractor's contract administrator:

NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT

I, _________ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will not divulge any information, whether obtained orally or in writing from, or data maintained by the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) to any unauthorized person for any purpose. I will not directly or indirectly use, or allow the use of Confidential Information for any other purpose other than that directly associated with my officially assigned duties for MCC.

Further, I will not directly or indirectly reveal or cause to be revealed the nature or content of any Sensitive, except to authorized personnel.

I am aware that the unauthorized use of information may be a violation of law and this Agreement.

Company or Subcontractor

Understand that authorized persons refer only to persons assigned to a project requiring access to Confidential Information or directly in the line of management over the project requiring access to the data.

[signatory]

Contract Administrator Date

MCC 52.209-70 ORGANIZATIONAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST: PRECLUSION FROM IMPLEMENTATION

CONTRACT (JULY 2012)

Work under this contract may call for the Contractor to furnish important services in support of the design or feasibility of specific activities that may become part of a Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact. In accordance with the principles of FAR Subpart 9.5, THE CONTRACTOR MAY BE INELIGIBLE TO FURNISH, AS A PRIME OR SUBCONTRACTOR OR OTHERWISE; THE IMPLEMENTATION SERVICES FOR ANY ACTIVITIES FOR WHICH IT PROVIDES SUBSTANTIAL DESIGN SERVICES EXCEPT FOR SUCH SERVICES THAT MAY BE FURNISHED UNDER THIS CONTRACT. If a determination is made that the contractor is ineligible for implementation services, the MCC Managing Director of Contracts and Grants Management may authorize a waiver (in accordance with FAR 9.503) if the Director determines that preclusion of the Contractor from the implementation contract would not be in the Government's best interest.

MCC 52.242-70 CONTRACTOR PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT RATING SYSTEM (CPARS)

REGISTRATION (AUG 2011)

The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) utilizes the Contractor Performance Assessment Rating System (CPARS) to evaluate contractor performance (see FAR, Subparts 42.1502 and 42.1503). Contractors doing business with MCC are required to register in CPARS accessible via the Internet at: http://www.cpars.csd.disa.mil/cparsmain.htm. An evaluation of contractor performance using the CPARS is mandatory for all contract actions exceeding $150,000, but may be conducted for contract actions lower than that amount should significant events occur such as a contract termination or extraordinary contract performance by the contractor. Inquiries regarding the registration process should be addressed to the CPARS help desk. The email address is WEBPTSMH@NAVY.MIL and the telephone number is (207) 438-1690.

MCC 52.243-70 INCREASE IN SERVICES (OCT 2006)

The services described in Sections B and C (statement of work) represent the Government's best estimate for known requirements at this time. However, due to the uncertainty of the work, the Government reserves the right to add or delete services if the need arises.

(End of clause) http://www.cpars.csd.disa.mil/cparsmain.htm http://www.cpars.csd.disa.mil/cparsmain.htm mailto:WEBPTSMH@NAVY.MIL

MCC 52.245-70 CONTRACTOR ACQUIRED MCC GOVERNMENT PROPERTY OVERSEAS (JULY 2012)

Property and equipment (hereafter stated "property") that MCC Contractors (other than Personnel Service Contractors) acquire and for which they receive MCC reimbursement through the invoice process is Government (MCC) owned property.

Government property is to be used, monitored, and inventoried in accordance with FAR Part 45, Subpart 45.5 Management of Government Property in the Possession of Contractors, as well as MCC Policy 350, "Policies and procedures on Property, Plant, and Equipment." The contractor should start a running property inventory as soon as it begins to procure property and equipment the cost of which is charged back to the Government. The Contractor shall furnish a copy of such inventory to the COR semi-annually or at least as the contract is in its final stages of completion if its duration does not exceed six months.

Mandatory fields on the inventory include: The Contractor's Name; the Contractor Number; the Country Location and address location; a description of the item with model number serial number, and manufacturer; the acquisition date and cost; the Quantity; the…