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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:

DCO-PR-20-0129

Section B - Supplies or Services and Prices/Costs

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Contract Type:Time and Materials

Unit Price Other Direct Costs

Extended Price

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Purchase Requisitions

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0002 FIRM FIXED PRICE 0

Contract Type:Firm Fixed Price

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0003 SecOps GSI Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) Description:

Purchase Requisitions DCO-PR-20-0129

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SECTION B

SECTION B - SUPPLIES OR SERVICES AND PRICE/COSTS

NOTE: The following document has been automatically generated by an electronic system. Some errors in spacing, formatting and punctuation may have occurred throughout the document and are beyond our control.

B.1 SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED

The Gender and Social Inclusion (GSI) Division requires a pool of firms that can provide a range of gender and social inclusion due diligence support and oversight throughout MCC's program development and implementation processes across the sectors where MCC works to maximize sustainable poverty reduction across MCC partner countries.

B.2 PRICE/COST SCHEDULE/ITEM INFORMATION

BPA Labor Category Level Year 1 Rate Year 2 Rate Year 3 Rate Year 4 Rate Year 5 Rate

BPA Manager N/A

Team Leader III

Social Scientist III

Social Scientist II

Social Safe Guard Specialist III

Social Safe Guard Specialist II

Social Safe Guard Specialist I

Sector Expert III

Sector Expert II

Sector Expert I

Technical Expert III

Technical Expert II

Technical Expert I

Research Analyst II

Research Analyst I

Administrative Assistant I

B.3 LABOR CATEGORIES/RATES

The contractor shall provide services in support of this requirement in the above labor categories. See Special Contract Requirement Section H. Additional Labor Categories, if additional categories are required.

B.4 BPA OBJECTIVE

To provide the required support services, in accordance with FAR 13.303-2 Establishment of BPAs. MCC anticipates the establishment of one or more BPAs as a result of this RFQ to procure the support services described herein. Each BPA will be established for a period of five years. Call Orders will be awarded as Firm Fixed Price and Time & Materials with a Not-to- Exceed (NTE) ceiling of $7 million as stated under FAR Part 13.5. Consulting services will be required at MCC headquarters, overseas, on an as-needed basis, and in support of specific programs in any MCC-eligible country. MCC-eligible countries can be found at www.mcc.gov.

B.5 ORDERING PROCEDURES

Purchases under the Blanket Purchases Agreement shall be in accordance with FAR 13.303-5 Purchases under BPAs.

The Call Orders to be issued under each BPA will be based on statements of work defining specific requirements. The BPAs will establish agreed-upon unit labor rates for the labor categories in Section B.2. BPA holders will then use the BPA unit labor rates times quoted labor hours, plus costs associated with the necessary contract support items (if needed) to quote a Firm Fixed Price or a Labor Hour/Time & Materials NTE ceiling for each individual Call Order. Evaluation factors such as (but not limited to) technical, price and past performance on prior call orders/contracts issued outside and under the BPAs (quality of deliverables/services, timeliness, and cost control), may be considered in determining establishment of individual Call Orders.

B.6. FUNDING TYPE

Call orders will be funded, at time of award, with one of MCCs no-year funding sources - Due Diligence, Compact Development or Administrative Funding. To limit Conflict of Interests, only one funding source will be used to obligate funding to the call orders. Funding obligated to call orders may be used during the life of the call order.

B.7 ORDER OF PRECEDENCE

All Call Orders awarded under these Blanket Purchase Agreements shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the award

BPA. In the event of an inconsistency in provisions of a call order, the provisions of the underlying Blanket Purchase Agreement shall take precedence.

Section C - Description/Specifications/Work Statement

SECTION C

SECTION C - DESCRIPTION/SPECIFICATIONS/STATEMENT OF WORK

DUE DILIGENCE ON GENDER AND SOCIAL INCLUSION

INTRODUCTION

The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is a Federal Corporation created under Title VI of the Foreign Operation, Export Financing, and related Programs Appropriations Act, 2004. Based on the principle that aid is most effective in countries that promote good governance, economic freedom, and investments in people, MCC provides large grants to a relatively small number of eligible low and lower- middle income countries. Details on MCC and its methodology may be viewed at http://www.mcc.gov.

MCC is helping lead the fight to reduce global poverty by promoting economic growth in our partner countries through 5-year grants called "compacts" and shorter limited grants called "threshold programs." MCC also partners with multiple countries in concurrent compacts for regional investments. More information about active compact and threshold programs can be found here: https://www.mcc.gov/where-we-work

Recognizing that sustainable development is best achieved by fostering country ownership, good policies and investment in people, MCC provides partner countries the opportunity to identify their own priorities for achieving economic growth and poverty reduction. MCC seeks results that are transparent, measurable, and attributable to MCC's investment.

At the core of MCC's vision is the understanding that market-based economic growth, led by private investment, is critical to sustainable development. MCC-funded programs strive to improve the core market-supporting functions of its partner country governments, from delivery of infrastructure and social services to strong institutions and regulatory environments.

At the same time, MCC recognizes that economic growth alone will not necessarily reduce poverty, and the poor may not benefit from any given investment. Due to inequalities resulting from poverty, gender, ethnicity, age, geography, or other social or economic factors, specific groups may not be able to benefit from all kinds of projects. Such inequalities can in turn constrain economic growth. At each stage of program development and implementation, MCC helps partner countries identify, analyze, and address inequalities and to design projects to reach groups that may otherwise be excluded. MCC's Gender and Social Inclusion (GSI) practice group takes the lead on many of these processes, following its Gender Policy and Gender Integration Guidelines.

https://www.mcc.gov/where-we-work

BACKGROUND

Across all sectors, MCC seeks ways to achieve inclusive and sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction, and to advance the U.S. government's ability to change the landscape of women's economic empowerment around the world.

MCC's GSI group requires consulting services across a number of sectors and technical specialties to meet GSI needs throughout the lifecycle of compact and threshold programs. Specialized technical consulting services will support GSI by providing in depth technical specialization, research capacity, and support to develop and provide oversight of programs and activities that increase incomes for disadvantaged populations.

Because MCC's mandate is poverty reduction through economic growth, all work done on gender and social inclusion— from analysis to project development—examines its relationship to economic growth and poverty, and intermediating variables, using best available evidence. (The exception to this is MCC's process of selecting eligible countries for compact development, which includes variables that span economics to human rights.) MCC investments must exceed an economic rate of return threshold and demonstrate the distribution of those benefits across income quartiles and between men and women where possible. MCC projects need to also ensure opportunities for the poor, women, and other disadvantaged groups in partner countries to participate in and benefit from these investments. Because MCC projects focus on increasing incomes, GSI's analysis concentrates on addressing inequalities that can have direct and indirect economic impacts for the poor, women, and other disadvantaged populations, and developing projects and activities that will lead to increased incomes for these populations.

MCC's Gender Policy and Gender Integration Guidelines specify how gender and social analysis and inclusion are to be integrated at each stage of compact development and implementation.

GSI's oversight covers all phases of MCC's work, from analyzing economic growth constraints and their causes, developing program logics, and designing projects, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. GSI seeks consulting services across all stages of the compact lifecycle to support key GSI needs. These needs are described in greater detail below, by step in the compact cycle:

I. Compact Development, which includes:

• Conducting preliminary analysis on social and gender issues

• Defining the gender and social dimensions as they relate to the identified constraint

• Project definition & development, and the gender and social dimensions, clarifying beneficiaries and economic impacts on different populations

• Laying out the logic for proposed interventions, including gender and social dimensions

• Developing activities/sub-activities and budgets, setting final beneficiary targets, identifying potential policy reforms as conditions precedent.

II. Compact Implementation, which includes:

• Completion of design studies, including the incorporation of gender and social inclusion elements

• Developing the Social and Gender Integration Plan, and monitoring its implementation

• Preparation of bid documents, including the need for social and gender protections as needed

• Contracting and monitoring oversight, both for GSI-specific activities as well as oversight of contractors undertaking work with social and gender dimensions

• Measuring, evaluating, and reporting on compact success, specifically with a gender and social inclusion angle

III. Compact Closeout, which includes:

• Completion of all compact projects, and writing a final report on gender and social inclusion achievements

More information on the project lifecycle can be found here: https://www.mcc.gov/resources/story/story-cdg-introduction

The GSI practice group works with other experts on multi-disciplinary teams to integrate gender and social inclusion in each stage of compact development, and with similar multi-disciplinary teams based in partner countries. Specifically, GSI – and their consultants - incorporates gender and social analysis concerns into work of other teams, including Economic Analysis and Monitoring and Evaluation; Finance, Investment and Trade; Energy; Water and Sanitation Infrastructure; Transport and Vertical Structures; Agriculture and Land; Human and Community Development; and Environmental and Social Performance.

At each stage, GSI needs consultant support to analyze and address issues related to households, communities, https://www.mcc.gov/content/uploads/2017/05/guidance-2011001054001-genderintegration.pdf https://www.mcc.gov/resources/story/story-cdg-introduction https://www.mcc.gov/resources/story/story-cdg-introduction government institutions, civil society at local, regional, and national levels, and the private sector.

SCOPE

The GSI practice group seeks service contractor(s) that can provide a range of gender and social inclusion due diligence support and oversight throughout MCC's program development and implementation processes across the sectors where MCC works to maximize sustainable poverty reduction across MCC partner countries. The contractor shall support MCC GSI's work on due diligence, program design, and implementation in the following GSI operational requirements and activities:

1. Conducting initial country and sector analyses: As part of the constraints to economic growth analysis, the contractor would help identify the gender and social inequalities in the country, and their relationship to growth and poverty. Once growth constraints and constraints to equal opportunity have been identified, the contractor would support GSI to carry out a problem analysis to identify root causes of the key constraints, potential solutions, and the gender and social dynamics implicated in those constraints.

2. Designing programs and conducting additional assessments: During program design, GSI conducts deeper analysis of potential solutions to inform the development of projects. The contractor would assist GSI to ensure that project designs address social and gender inequalities and maximize the participation of and benefits that accrue to the poor, women, girls, and other potentially marginalized populations.

3. Oversight and monitoring of program implementation: During program implementation, the contractor will provide technical assistance to GSI in the oversight and monitoring of social and gender-related activities and objectives. The contractor would also assist in the monitoring of GSI integration into non-GSI activities. The contractor would also support GSI in the design and oversight of impact evaluations, using quantitative and qualitative research methods.

4. Support learning and development for GSI:: The contractor would support internal learning for GSI to help strengthen MCC policies, practices, communications, knowledge management, and internal and external learning around gender and social inclusion.

TASKS

MCC encourages firms to form teams and/or subcontract to ensure firms are capable of identifying all relevant personnel and experience pertaining to as many of these task areas as possible as well as the sector-specific tasks in Annex A.

The following tasks may be associated with any eligible MCC threshold or compact country. Some tasks may begin in one stage and continue throughout the life of the program. Others tasks are time-sensitive and related to one portion of the compact/threshold cycle.

1. Conducting initial country and sector analyses

• Use MCC's Constraints Analysis guidance, the Constraints to Employment and Entrepreneurship framework, and other

MCC analysis frameworks as they are developed revised or new frameworks to identify social and gender inequalities and analyze how they shape economic participation, opportunities, and productivity.

• Identify and prioritize gender and social gaps in employment or entrepreneurship that need to be reduced and which sectors will promote largest growth potential, if MCC programs can reduce gaps. Analyze the implications of these dynamics for growth as well as poverty reduction. This task typically includes economic, social, institutional, and political economy analyses.

• Analyze the root causes of identified constraints within the selected sector(s). As previously specified, sectors may include one or more of the following: energy, water, sanitation, transportation, agriculture, land, education (including STEM, TVET), health, nutrition, information and communication technologies, finance, and other areas. The contractor must be ready to bring on sector-specific expertise to complement gender and social inclusion analyses. GSI may require the analysis on the root causes to draw on several different types of methodologies, including, but not limited to:

o political economy, o legal, regulatory, institutional (assessing their policies, practices, and budgets), governance frameworks o social and gender norms and relationships.

o community and civil society engagement, o political voice, o extremism promoted by certain groups, o exclusion of certain groups (including intersections of different types of exclusion), o financial inclusion, o entrepreneurship/business development, o behavior change, o data landscape and use, o intra-household gender dynamics, o gender-based violence, and o self-efficacy and agency.

Map the NGO and private sector landscape, and donor landscape, among others depending on country context and sector.

• Identify opportunities to advance women's economic empowerment and poverty reduction in the context of identified constraints and make an economic and business case for their inclusion in MCC programs. For purposes of MCC programs, women's economic empowerment opportunities are those that enable women to prosper in the workforce, succeed as entrepreneurs, and thrive in an economic environment unrestricted by laws, regulations or cultural norms.

• Deliverables will include reports, presentations, terms of reference, other documents, and comments on documents from other sectors related the above processes.

2. Designing programs and conducting additional assessments

• Ensure that gender and social inequalities are fully considered in the development of project concepts and designs.

Propose ways to broaden participation of and benefits accruing to women, girls, the poor, and other potentially marginalized groups. Develop and assess budgets for adequately operationalizing these activities. Undertake additional studies and assessments, organize stakeholder inputs, and draft design documents, work plans, and budgets.

• Contribute to the development of program logics, conceptualizing the relationships between project activities, inputs, outcomes, and impacts, with primary attention to integrating social and gender activities and objectives.

• Identify how activity designs can maximize the ability to conduct impact evaluations of the activities.

• Provide due diligence analysis as needed to develop specific activities or components of projects across sectors to meet GSI objectives.

• Support the integration of poverty, social, and gender evidence and data into economic analysis tools, including cost-benefit analysis, beneficiary analysis, distributional analysis.

• Conduct an analysis of disadvantaged groups, as related to the MCC investment, followed by design of action to include these social inclusion components.

• Support work on environmental and social safeguards development to ensure there is adequate attention to gender and social differences. This will include work on increasing women's economic opportunities either in employment or entrepreneurship, into works contracts and gender inclusive resettlement.

• Support work related to risk assessment and mitigation of trafficking in persons in accordance to MCC's Counter- Trafficking in Persons Policy. This includes supporting the development of TIP Risk Management Plans.

• Carry out detailed cost estimations for assessments and project development, and develop budgets for proposed GSI projects, activities, or GSI-related components of broader compact projects or activities.

• Draft and/or review documents such as reports, presentations, terms of reference, operations manuals, due diligence deliverables, etc. related to all aspects of compact development.

3. Oversight and monitoring of program implementation

• Support development and updating of Social and Gender Integration Plans, Monitoring and Evaluation Plans, and other compact implementation tools and documents.

• Help prepare and review TORs for GSI contractors and GSI dimensions of other sector contracts, and review deliverables pertaining to compact implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.

• Carry out additional analyses required to help inform design and implementation of interventions and activities.

• Provide capacity building modules/tools, training, and technical support to country partners and implementing entities.

• Support GSI in the design and oversight of impact evaluations, using quantitative and qualitative research methods.

4. Support learning and development for GSI

• Assist GSI in working with economic tools. Subtasks would include conducting literature reviews, collecting and analyzing data, and reviewing documents to incorporate GSI perspectives, evidence, and data into MCC's growth diagnostics, sector-specific cost-benefit analysis, and sector-specific income distributional analysis.

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• Support GSI learning on special topics: Conduct literature reviews; contribute to policies, and guidance; and conduct training on information and communication technologies, behavior change, institutional reform, and trafficking in persons, and others as identified.

• Contribute to the development and review of MCC and divisional policies and guidance documents.

• Draft external communications materials, such as success stories, blog posts, and results reports.

• Develop knowledge management products, based on compact-specific and sector-wide experience. These may be written with or for MCC staff and may include papers, briefs, or other products on topics related to GSI lessons learned or findings from specific compacts.

APPENDIX A FOR ILLUSTRATIONS OF SECTOR-SPECIFIC TASKS AND ISSUES

MCC and its partner countries integrate gender and social inclusion across all MCC-funded investments in a variety of sectors. The consultant will be required to mobilize high-quality sectoral experts with experience carrying out specialized or sector-specific GSI tasks. Below are illustrative tasks and deliverables related to common MCC sectors and specializations. The consultant should be capable of mobilizing personnel and experience pertaining to as many of these sectors as possible, particularly those that make up the largest portion of MCC's investment portfolio.

Sector-related tasks: Agriculture

• Identify approaches that marry high economic rates of return (ERRs) with economic empowerment of smallholders and rural development more broadly. This may include identifying opportunities to enhance value addition and marketing/trading activities in rural areas through MCC infrastructure projects (e.g., electricity, roads, water).

• Collect and analyze gender and social data on agricultural value chains, looking at market conditions, laws and policies, and potential to contribute to increased income opportunities for women and other marginalized groups.

Analyze gender roles and division of labor in agriculture value chains, access to resources, and decision making.

• Assess barriers to women's economic participation in and benefits from agriculture, including intra-household gender dynamics, time and mobility constraints, social norms, and other barriers.

• Identify potential GSI entry points and recommend approaches and types of interventions, such as improving women friendly extension services (access to training, seeds, irrigation water, equipment etc.), networking, mentoring, farmers association membership, recognition as farmers, market linkages, and access to inputs for women and marginalized groups, as well as other gender-related services like child care support.

• Identify gender and social responsive monitoring and evaluation indicators, such as female farmers trained or number of female leaders in farmer associations.

• Assess degree of ICT penetration (e.g., broadband coverage, use of "basic" and smart mobile phones, other types of internet usage) among rural residents, disaggregated by gender, age, and socioeconomic and educational level.

Particular attention needs to be paid to women's access to and ability to use ICTs, and what is considered culturally appropriate use of ICTs by women.

Education

• Collect and analyze data to identify social, cultural, political, economic, and locational factors that affect gender and social disparities in access to educational, STEM, and skill development opportunities, considering rates of student enrollment, attendance and completion; policies and legislation; curriculum; school facilities; teacher demographics and qualifications; career guidance; sex-segregated educational/skill tracks; and labor force demand and participation.

• Identify potential GSI entry points such as school rehabilitation in poor or minority regions, teacher and administrator training on gender-sensitive instruction and recruitment practices, and engagement with ministries on educational policies and institutional practices.

• Identify gender and social responsive monitoring and evaluation indicators, such as student enrollment, participation, and completion rates; educational achievement; teacher attitudes toward gender or socially based differences in abilities and appropriate occupational choices; and participation rates in high-demand trades and professional programs.

• Identify and address school-based violence, including sexual harassment and assault in school or on the way to school.

• Ensure that programs account for safe water and separate sanitation facilities and menstrual management for girls.

Energy/Renewable Energy

• Examine electricity gaps in populations and support the gender and social inclusion perspective in reviewing willingness- and ability-to-pay study terms of references and outputs.

• Assess the key barriers (administrative, legal, regulatory, monetary, educational, institutional) that poor households, female entrepreneurs, and micro and small enterprises face in accessing electricity, and the effectiveness of policies intended to benefit these groups' use of electricity. Propose activities to address these barriers.

• Examine the potential impact of energy reforms, including tariff and subsidy reform, on the poor, women and marginalized groups, and propose mitigation options for any negative impacts .

• Assess women's employment and role in decision making in the sector.

• Identify potential GSI entry points such as capacity strengthening of the regulator to enforce and monitor policies on affordability of services, activities to reduce the burden of electricity connection, charges for poor households and micro and small enterprises, support for productive uses of electricity, and generating employment and small-business opportunities for women, the poor, and other disadvantaged groups in the energy sector.

• Identify gender and social responsive monitoring and evaluation indicators such as percentage of low-income male/female-headed households connected to grid, number of micro and small businesses (disaggregated by sex of the owner) newly connected, and number of households and enterprises using modern forms of energy for lighting, time-saving, or productive use.

• Identify opportunities for women and marginalized groups in community based on- or off-grid renewable energy generation and distribution.

Health

• Examine gender-based workload and time-use patterns within and outside households and whether men and women share equal responsibility for maternal and child nutrition and health.

• Examine power relations between men and women and whether they affect control over decision making and resource allocation, and the role of gender-based violence in enforcing power relations.

• Identify potential GSI entry points such as improving media and health sector communication on the importance of male roles in ensuring family, maternal, and child nutrition and health

• Examine whether the poor and marginalized groups are aware of their rights and entitlements to nutrition and health services.

• Identify potential opportunities to improve health systems, services, information and access for women, the poor and other marginalized groups, on key concerns such as stunting, maternal health, breastfeeding, child feeding practices, effective parenting, safe water, sanitation, hygienic practices, gender- based violence, and health services.

• Examine gender-based stereotyping and potential for transformative activities for changing community and household knowledge, attitudes, and practices for improving nutrition and reducing childhood stunting.

• Identify gender and social responsive monitoring and evaluation indicators such as changes in workloads, divisions of labor, rates of maternal mortality and morbidity, perceptions roles and responsibilities in health and nutrition, and rate of childhood stunting.

Land and property rights

• Identify land tenure security and rights for women and assess whether they are legitimate, secure, and enforceable and whether women participate in decision making about land management and rights.

• Assess legal awareness of communities, especially of women on land laws related to tenure security, title or deed registration, and develop legal literacy programs.

• Assess the legal, institutional, policy, and socio-cultural context of land rights by carrying out research that broadly covers formal and customary laws, policies, and regulations on land, dispute resolution, family, marital property, inheritance, gender norms, and land conflicts. Assess the interaction of land rights and gender-based violence, especially with regards to women's ability to assert their rights to land.

• Assess who makes decisions regarding land usage, such as sale or rental and crop choice, cultivation, and sale.

• Identify potential GSI entry points such as working with developers of land policy to ensure that policies advance the poor and women's access to secure land rights and partnering with state institutions, local and traditional leaders, and other stakeholders to ensure awareness and implementation of land laws in accordance with gender and social equality principles.

• Identify relevant gender and social responsive monitoring and evaluation indicators

Roads and transportation

• Conduct studies to identify mobility and safety issues by gender and other demographic characteristics, such as age, disability, poverty, location, and social marginalization.

• Assess risk of gender-based violence and harassment on public transportation and identify actions to reduce sexual harassment in transport.

• Investigate the context for women's participation in leadership and in the labor force and market and assess how road projects can create opportunities for women's involvement in decision making around roads and transport and for employment for women and marginalized groups.

• Work with economists to assess the economic and social impact of improved access to services such as schools and health facilities and collaborate with MCC Transport and Vertical Structures Practice Group colleagues to consider how these gains might be realized through road design.

• Identify potential GSI entry points such as identifying relevant auxiliary projects like grading existing roads, placing gravel, and improving market facilities.

• Identify relevant gender and social responsive monitoring and evaluation indicators.

Water, sanitation, and irrigation

• Examine access to water and sanitation among different demographics and identify differences in decision making and use of domestic water.

• Identify any financial, social, legal, gender, cultural, and informational barriers to improved water and sanitation.

• Analyze tariff policies, structures, and affordability of services for the poor and assess institutional policies and practices at national, local, and utility levels for pro-poor and gender inclusiveness, highlighting and assessing good practices and noting gaps and opportunities.

• Identify current and potential engagement and participation of women, the poor, and other marginalized groups in decision making and employment and assess potential for interventions to enhance livelihoods and opportunities.

• Identify potential GSI entry points, such as legal and policy reforms (poverty-targeted subsidies and pre-financing mechanisms for network connections, social equity provisions in tariff reforms) and designing training and employment opportunities for women in the sector.

• Identify relevant gender and social responsive monitoring and evaluation indicators.

Environmental and Social Performance (across sectors with construction components)

• Use World Bank Environment and Social Framework (ESF) and IFC Environment and Social Performance Standards (IFC PS)

• For all construction projects, including WASH, roads, energy, building construction, and irrigation, identify potential GSI entry points such as employment and entrepreneurship associated with construction sites, trafficking-in-persons, gender-based violence and sexual harassment, among others.

• Putting in place appropriate safeguards and gender equity considerations in the case of resettlement and livelihoods restoration, which can result in an exacerbation of social and gender inequalities; and

• Identifying and addressing risks for HIV transmission, gender-based violence, and child labor.

Social Inclusion (cross-cutting)

• Analyze excluded, vulnerable, and disadvantaged groups in relation to the sectors MCC operates and in particular to the program it funds.

• Support the design of actions to promote social inclusion in order to address any disadvantages or challenges that certain groups may face in order to benefit or participate from MCC's programs.

• Support GSI testing and refining its guidance on social inclusion, including the development of specific guidance notes tailored to each sector MCC operates.

• Provide support disseminating guidance on social inclusion within MCC and with partner countries, including developing and delivering trainings.

Trafficking in Persons (TIP) and Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) (cross-cutting)

• Conduct desk review on relevant international and national legislation and policies as it relates to domestic and regional development projects, especially in infrastructure sector.

• Assess TIP/SEA risks within specific programs, following the MCC C-TIP Policy, and within the legal and policy context of each country. Provide recommendations to mitigate identified risks.

• Identify and assess local resources for partner countries to engage with as they develop and implement their programs, with the aim to engage with an expert institution to raise awareness with communities near project site, monitor contractor's compliance with the MCC C-TIP Policy and provide support if an incident occurs.

• Support the development of the TIP Risk Management Plans (in projects rated high risk) and collaborate with its dissemination.

• Provide support to MCC with developing guidance documents to assess and address SEA, developing specific tools and developing/delivering trainings.

• Assist MCC in the review of existing policies, procedures, or other guidance related to TIP/ SEA, drawing from international best practices and lessons learned.

• In case of a TIP/SEA allegation, assist MCC in understanding the legal and policy context, assessing the situation and providing recommendations on process forward, with a focus on support or assistance to victim.

Women's Economic Empowerment (cross cutting)

• Identify and assess barriers to women's economic participation in the sectors where MCC invests.

• Collect and analyze data on women's participation and advancement in the labor force; access to vocational education, skills training, finance, capital, markets, networks, and mentorship; and treatment under laws, regulations, and cultural norms.

• Propose and examine potential activities to address barriers to women's economic empowerment, such as training and access to finance for female entrepreneurs in technical sectors; gender audits; increasing gender responsiveness and women's productive use of utilities and other public services; safeguarding land rights for women; integrating gender to make workforce development more inclusive of women; promoting women's participation in data science and STEM education; funding internships, scholarships, and mentoring for female students in technical areas;

improving women's access to savings and loans in MCC sectors; making public transport safe for female commuters; eliminating legal restrictions to women's work; and encouraging women's employment in MCC-funded projects.

• Incorporate women's economic empowerment into program logics and monitoring and evaluation plans. Identify monitoring and evaluation indicators, such as number of women participating in trainings and technical assistance, number of women accessing financial services, number of jobs attained by women as a result of MCC sector investments, and number of women participating in activities promoting attitudes, behaviors, and actions to advance women's economic empowerment.

Section D - Packaging and Marking

SECTION D

SECTION D - PACKAGING AND MARKING

The contractor shall ensure the BPA and any Call Order Number is clearly visible on all information submitted to the Contracting Officer Representative, Project Monitor and/or Contracting Officer.

Call Order Deliverables shall have a cover page that states "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."

Section E - Inspection and Acceptance Terms

SECTION E

E.1 Incorporated by Reference: FAR 52.212-4 (a) Inspection/Acceptance

Section F - Delivery or Performance

SECTION F

SECTION F - DELIVERIES OR PERFORMANCE

F.1 PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE

The overall anticipated period of performance of this blanket purchase agreement (BPA) is as follows:

November 1, 2020 through October 31, 2025

F.2 PLACE OF PERFORMANCE

Performance shall be at the vendor location, MCC headquarters in Washington, DC, if required and any country where the Millennium Challenge Corporation has or may provide foreign assistance. See www.mcc.gov for current and potential future locations abroad.

The primary place of performance shall be the contractor's address of record noted in the System for Award Management.

http://www.mcc.gov

F.3 DELIVERABLES

Specific deliverables and due dates will be defined for each Call Order. Below is an illustrative list of deliverables:

• Attend Kick Off Meeting;

• Prepare Workplans;

• Travel to MCC countries;

• Develop and edit training materials and courses, knowledge products, and workshops;

• Prepare detailed trip reports to include objective and outcomes;

• Prepare and/or comment on ad hoc subject matter technical reports

• Prepare and/or comment on Powerpoint Presentations

• Prepare and/or comment Literature reviews

• Conduct document reviews

• Prepare and/or comment on constraints to growth analyses

• Prepare and/or comment on constraints to women's economic participation analysis

• Prepare and/or comment on root cause of growth and inequality constraints analyses

• Prepare and/or comment on cost-benefit and distributional analyses

• Prepare and/or comment on Terms of reference

• Prepare and/or comment on Project concepts, proposals, and designs

• Prepare and/or comment on concept and project assessment memos

• Prepare and/or comment on program logics and M&E plans

• Prepare and/or comment on TIP risks management plans

• Prepare and/or comment on cost estimations and project budgets

• Prepare and/or comment on Social and Gender Integrations Plans

• Prepare and/or comment on quantitative and qualitative research designs and instruments

• Prepare and/or comment on analytical papers

• Prepare and/or comment on guidance tools

• Preparation of TORs for MCC to hire other contractors and other consultants to assist MCC partner countries to design, develop, and implement to be supported by MCC compact and threshold programs;

and

• Other advice, reports, and deliverables as needed per specific call order.

The Contractor shall address and incorporate comments provided by MCC into final deliverables, as appropriate. The Contractor may be requested to submit or present deliverables not only to MCC but also to high-level government officials in eligible countries and to counterpart teams in eligible countries. Deliverables shall be submitted in English as well as potentially French, Spanish, Portuguese or other languages, if required in specific call order requirements.

F.4 DELIVERABLE FORMATS

All such reports are to be submitted in English, French, Portuguese or Spanish, as requested by MCC, in three (3) hard copies, and/or an electronic copy using WINDOWS based MS-Office 2007 or later products including WORD for text, data tables in EXCEL, appropriate MS-Office 2003 or later programs for exhibits, and schedules using MS-Project. Original drawing files should be submitted in AUTOCAD 2002 (or later), and also in PDF printable version. Digital photo files should be submitted in JPG format. GIS data should be submitted both in ArcView files, and PDF printable files. Presentations should be prepared with MS PowerPoint. All work files shall be submitted to MCC along with PDF files.

The Contractor shall establish and maintain a comprehensive reference index of all relevant documents reviewed by the Contractor. Any and all such documents made available and collected by the Contractor, will be compiled in usable form and delivered in an organized fashion to MCC at the end of the contract.

F.5 ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA

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 the Core Team and relevant counterparts at MCC.

All reports are to be submitted in English in hard /or electronic copy (in MS Word), with tables, data and calculations in MS Excel.

F.6 QUALITY CONTROL PLAN

The contractor shall have in place and maintain a Quality Assurance/Quality Control Plan (QA/QC) that covers, at a minimum, corporate security plan, 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.

F.7 TIMING AND REPORTING

All formal communication with MCC, including reports, will be submitted to the Contracting Officer Representative (COR). The COR for this requirement will be identified via separate correspondence.

The COR will have technical responsibility for monitoring the performance. The COR will review and evaluate the contract's performance, and also will coordinate any communications with relevant counterparts and other donor agencies and organizations.

Any change in the terms of the contract must be made in writing and approved by the Contracting Officer. No representation of the COR shall serve as a basis for an alteration in the general scope of this contract or of the terms and conditions of the contract unless confirmed in writing by the Contracting Officer. The contractor must communicate with the Contracting Officer on all matters that pertain to the contract terms. Proceeding with the work without proper contractual coverage could result in nonpayment for that work.

F.8 MCC TECHNICAL DIRECTION

For tasks performed under time and materials / labor hours, the following provision shall be followed:

(a) Performance of the work under this contract is subject to the written technical direction of the Contracting Officer Representative (COR), and any Government Project Monitors (PM), who shall be specifically appointed, and responsibilities identified, by the Contracting Officer in writing in accordance with MCC policy. "Technical direction" means a directive to the Contractor that approves approaches, solutions, designs, or refinements; fills in details or otherwise completes the general description of work or documentation items; shifts emphasis among work areas or tasks; or furnishes similar instruction to the Contractor. Technical direction includes requiring studies and pursuit of certain lines of inquiry regarding matters within the general tasks and requirements in Section C of this contract, and any resulting Call Order.

(b) The COR/Government PM does not have the authority to, and shall not, issue any instruction purporting to be technical direction that—

(1) Constitutes an assignment of additional work outside the statement of work;

(2) Constitutes a change as defined in the changes clause;

(3) Constitutes a basis for any increase or decrease in the total estimated contract/Call Order cost, the fixed fee (if any), or the time required for contract/Call Order performance;

(4) Changes any of the expressed terms, conditions, or specifications of the contract/Call Order; or

(5) Interferes with the Contractor's rights to perform the terms and conditions of the contract/Call Order.

(c) Technical direction may be oral or in writing; however, the COR or government PM shall confirm oral direction in writing within five workdays.

(d) The Contractor shall proceed promptly with the performance of technical direction duly issued by the COR or PM in the manner prescribed by this clause and within the COR's/PM's authority. If, in the Contractor's opinion, any instruction or direction by the COR/PM falls within any of the categories defined in paragraph (b) of this clause, the Contractor shall not proceed but shall notify the Contracting Officer in writing within 5 workdays after receiving it (either orally or in writing, whichever comes first) and shall request the Contracting Officer to take action as described in this clause. Upon receiving this notification, the Contracting Officer shall either issue an appropriate contract/Task Order modification within a reasonable time or advise the Contractor in writing within 30 days that the instruction or direction is—

(1) Rescinded in its entirety; or

(2) Within the requirements of the contract/Task Order and does not constitute a change under the changes clause of the contract/Task Order, and that the Contractor should proceed promptly with its performance.

(e) A failure of the Contractor and Contracting Officer to agree that the instruction or direction is both within the requirements of the contract/Task Order and does not constitute a change under the changes clause, or a failure to agree upon the contract action to be taken with respect to the instruction or direction, shall be subject to the Disputes clause of…