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95332424Q0045

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541990

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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 Base 1 LT Contract Type:Time and Materials

Unit Price Other Direct Costs

Extended Price

Description:

BASE PERIOD

LABOR AND OTHER DIRECT COSTS

Purchase Requisitions

IDC Type: Not Applicable FSC Codes: R499 SUPPORT- PROFESSIONAL: OTHER NAICS Code: 541990 All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical S...

Supplies/Services Quantity Unit

1001 Option Period 1 1 LT Contract Type:Time and Materials

Unit Price Other Direct Costs

Extended Price

Description:

OPTION PERIOD ONE

LABOR AND OTHER DIRECT COSTS

Purchase Requisitions

Option: 1 Option Time Date: 9/27/25 Option Time Duration: 364 Option Time Units: Days IDC Type: Not Applicable

Supplies/Services Quantity Unit

2001 Option Period 2 1 LT Contract Type:Time and Materials

Unit Price Other Direct Costs

Extended Price

Description:

OPTION PERIOD TWO

LABOR AND OTHER DIRECT COSTS

Purchase Requisitions

Option: 2 Option Time Date: 9/27/26 Option Time Duration: 364 Option Time Units: Days IDC Type: Not Applicable

Supplies/Services Quantity Unit

3001 Option Period 3 1 LT Contract Type:Time and Materials

Unit Price Other Direct Costs

Extended Price

Description:

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Option: 3 Option Time Date: 9/27/27 Option Time Duration: 365 Option Time Units: Days IDC Type: Not Applicable

Supplies/Services Quantity Unit

4001 Option Period 4 1 LT Contract Type:Time and Materials

Unit Price Other Direct Costs

Extended Price

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OPTION PERIOD FOUR

LABOR AND OTHER DIRECT COSTS

Purchase Requisitions

Option: 4 Option Time Date: 9/27/28 Option Time Duration: 364 Option Time Units: Days IDC Type: Not Applicable

Clauses incorporated by reference

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SECTION B

B.1 SERVICES TO BE PROVDED

The Millennium Challenge Corporation seeks to procure due diligence services to support the analysis of agricultural issues and/or development and implementation of agricultural components of its Compacts or Threshold programs; specifically, to analyze the prevailing agricultural policy and implementation of that policy, as well as investments in public infrastructure and systems needed to execute national agricultural reforms, programs, strategies, and initiatives in MCC's partner countries.

The Contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, tools, translation/interpretation, workshop venue and materials, supervision, and other items and non-personal services necessary to perform the tasks as defined in Section C of the Statement of Work.

B.2 CONTRACT TYPE

MCC anticipates awarding a time and material type contract.

B.3 LABOR CATEGORIES, RATES, ESTIMATED LEVEL OF EFFORT AND OTHER DIRECT COSTS

LABOR CATEGORY (Quoter to propose) HOURLY

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Quoter shall apply level of effort by labor category not to exceed the total hours per period.

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ESTIMATED OTHER DIRECT COSTS - TRAVEL BY PERIOD

(This not to exceed amount includes airfare, per diem, visas, lodging, report printing, data collectors, workshops/meetings, translators and enroute expenses)

TOTAL LABOR AND OTHER DIRECT COSTS

Total Labor Other Direct Costs - Travel

Additional Other Direct Costs (non-travel)

Total by Period

BASE PERIOD $114,000

PERIOD ONE $111,000

PERIOD TWO $113,000

PERIOD THREE $115,000

PERIOD FOUR $117,000

GRAND TOTAL $570,000

Section C - Description/Specifications/Work Statement

SECTION C

SECTION C - DESCRIPTION/SPECIFICATIONS/STATEMENT OF WORK

C.1 INTRODUCTION

The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is a U.S. Government corporation formed to help low income and low middle income countries reduce poverty through the promotion of sustainable economic growth. MCC operates on the principle that aid is most effective when it strengthens good governance, economic freedom and investments in people. MCC awards multi-year grants known as "Compacts" to partner countries that meet its selection criteria and propose programs that address their constraints to economic growth. Once developed and agreed, MCC compacts must be implemented by those partner countries within terms of not more than five years. MCC's other investment tool, called Threshold programs, are smaller grants often focused on policy and institutional reform in selected countries that come close to passing MCC's eligibility criteria and show a firm commitment to improving their policy performance.

Through this solicitation, MCC's Land and Agricultural Economy Practice Group seeks to procure due diligence services to support the analysis of agricultural issues and/or development and implementation of agricultural components of its Compacts or Threshold programs; specifically, to analyze the prevailing agricultural policy and implementation of that policy, as well as investments in public infrastructure and systems needed to execute national agricultural reforms, programs, strategies and initiatives in MCC's partner countries. Given the high budget envelope and five-year timeframe of MCC's compacts, the agency is seeking assistance for innovating its approach to working with its partner governments by creating packaged reform and project interventions that will more rapidly assist in meeting their highest-level national development objectives. MCC seeks the assistance of a contractor to review the full suite of relevant agricultural policies—to include national agricultural investment plans, food and nutrition programs, taxation and incentives structures, and policies in trade, environment, natural resources and conservation among others—in order to provide targeted recommendations based on MCC's model for increasing economic growth and reducing poverty. After the initial diagnosis phase in a given country, the Contractor will be asked to provide further analysis on a sub-set of policies or sectors within the agricultural economy. Additionally, as many of the levers for executing agricultural policy rely on public investments in systems, the Contractor will be tasked with providing recommendations for specific proposals to reform and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of systems and processes within public agencies to meet sectoral objectives, i.e. IT systems used to implement smart input subsidies, taxation and invoicing systems, natural resource management technology, agricultural statistics networks, etc. Taken as a whole, this work will assist MCC simultaneously in meeting its highest-level objective of reducing poverty through economic growth, while ensuring its principle of country ownership is maintained, in line with MCC investment requirements. To better gain insight into how MCC works in the agriculture sector, offerors are advised to read and reference MCC's Agricultural Economy Program Design Toolkit. These due diligence services are specifically intended to support MCC's agriculture team during compact development and implementation.

C.2 BACKGROUND

MCC is a Federal Corporation created under Title VI of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2004. MCC's mission is to reduce poverty around the world through the promotion of sustainable and inclusive economic growth based on the principle that aid is most effective when it strengthens good governance, economic freedom, and investments in people. For more information on MCC, please visit www.mcc.gov.

MCC is a prime example of smart U.S. Government (USG) assistance in action, benefiting both developing countries and the American taxpayers through:

• Competitive selection: MCC's Board examines a country's performance on 20 independent and transparent policy indicators and selects countries based on policy performance.

• Country-led solutions: MCC requires selected countries to identify their priorities for achieving sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction. Countries develop their MCC proposals in broad consultation within their society. MCC then works in close partnership to help countries refine programs.

• Country-led implementation: When a country is awarded an MCC compact, it sets up a local accountable entity to manage and oversee all aspects of implementation. Monitoring of funds is rigorous, transparent, and managed through independent fiscal agents.

• Focus on results: MCC is committed to producing results and ensuring that the American people are getting a good return on their investment. MCC employs technically rigorous, systematic, and transparent methods of projecting, tracking, and evaluating the impacts of its programs.

Agricultural Development through Comprehensive National Agricultural Policy, Strategy, and Investment Plans and Implementation

Agriculture sector investment features in many of MCC's partnerships, particularly given MCC's focus on poverty reduction.

Growth in the agricultural economy is at least twice as effective in reducing poverty than in other sectors World Bank. World Development Report 2008. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/5990/WDR%202008%20- %20English.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y and therefore has invested over $1.7 billion in agriculture and irrigation investments and over $5 billion in investments that aim to reduce food insecurity. Typically, when MCC begins a partnership to develop a Compact, a constraints analysis is conducted, leading to a high-level identification of obstacles for economic growth. This may often be physical infrastructure such as roads or ports to increase market access for agricultural production, but oftentimes agricultural policy and its implementation is similarly identified as the constraint to additional investment and income in the sector.

Governments are able to affect the trajectory of sectoral growth through their prevailing agricultural policy, either by providing signals in national planning documents, taxation or incentivization programs for private investment, regulation and enforcement, and funding of various agricultural programs. Reforms to change existing agricultural policy tend to either lean towards being market-oriented (liberalization) or to reinforce central government control within the sector. Emblematic of this dichotomy is price control or support for key agricultural commodities, creating non-market driven incentives on the production side for farmers which oftentimes creates distortions for private investment further along the value chain. Reforming these types of policies—even with easily identified net economic benefits—may be challenged by vested interests and incumbent entities that benefit from the status quo. Nevertheless, MCC has increasingly found a strategic role in supporting partner countries in defining and reforming agricultural policies – either as standalone project investments or to complement physical infrastructure investment - and more importantly, to support its partner countries' ambitious goals for economic development.

For example, in recent years MCC has supported agricultural input subsidy program reform, restructuring of national taxation of agricultural investment and support in national monitoring, and strategic stores of cereals; to name a few.

In addition to prevailing agricultural policy, MCC partner countries typically have national strategy documents that are often aspirational in their proposed scope and are unable to be funded at their full levels with either domestic or donor budgets.

Adding to the challenges of implementing agricultural policy and strategies are the needs to respond to evolving landscapes in agriculture such as inflation, high global input prices, shocks caused by climate change, and changing diets. At the same time, governments must also coordinate different donor priorities along with their different approaches. Nevertheless, there are several clear examples of national strategies unlocking sectoral growth and private sector investment by implementing a roadmap to sectoral growth—Morocco's Plan Maroc Vert being a key example but not the only one. While each strategy must correspond to the bespoke needs and wishes of the country and stakeholders that define it, there are at least some commonalities for ensuring a successful strategy design and rollout. These plans must be able to efficiently maximize public funding and also catalyze private investment. Quite often these plans are able to adequately describe the vision and objectives without being able to detail the reform measures or stakeholder commitment required to achieve that vision.

Inherent to a re-prioritization or renewed investment strategy are changes that must be made at the regulatory or public financial management levels. As the FAO states "[Strategies] ideally should be anchored in country systems, structures and procedures, especially the budgeting process." Given MCC's ability to provide large amounts of grant funding for a limited period of time, the potential for the agency to contribute to these broader visions for sectoral growth is quite high.

While agricultural strategies may sometimes lack details for achieving objectives, approaches for achieving sectoral potential are often iterated through smaller project and reform components. As MCC aims to assist its partner countries in executing their own development strategies, it is uniquely positioned to take on and accelerate these types of interventions at scale.

MCC's approach, with particular commitment to country-led reform, recognizes the potential for policy actions to grow economies, reduce poverty, increase productivity, and add to rural development.

These types of interventions require thorough stakeholder assessments, technical and legal requirements analysis, phased design and quite often change management. In MCC's experience, partner governments often request legal, policy or institutional reform and implementation assistance including change management, establishment of regulatory bodies, implementation of new information and communication technology (ICT) systems necessary for implementing reforms and improved business processes, refinement of public financial management (PFM) policies, and other public services within the agriculture sector. In order to fully understand the various interests of stakeholders and potential solutions, MCC often asks its teams and consultants to conduct political economy analysis to better understand existing policies and impacts for reforming them. While policy priorities are idiosyncratic in nature to the problems facing a country's agriculture sector, some examples include: creation of voucher programs for transparent input subsidies, warehouse tracking and receipt systems, market information systems, natural resource management, crop forecasting tools, extension provision systems, tax and auditing oversight systems, and other typically public managed or facilitated production and marketing support mechanisms.

Therefore, MCC requests expertise under this contract to provide design recommendations and provide support as needed during the implementation of agriculture policy and strategy investments. All work will be mobilized via Technical Directives to be issued by MCC over the life of the contract.

C.3 SCOPE

MCC seeks a service provider that can mobilize a technical team capable of rapidly assessing MCC partner countries' existing agriculture policy, strategy, institutions and systems as well as their de facto implementation in MCC's partner countries. This would include examination of a country's national agriculture strategy along with other legal, regulatory, institutional, or programmatic regime matters that may be relevant to the agriculture sector's performance and the specific constraints, dimensions or aspects identified by MCC as part of an early analysis stage of compact development. This analysis should also provide recommendations, using MCC's requirements and model, for how MCC may be suited or not to invest within existing host country national agriculture policy to address the constraints or problems that MCC has identified. Using best practices for agricultural sector transformation, the Contractor may be requested to recommend practical reform measures or interventions that facilitate economic growth and investment in the sector, as in the example of systems and policies required to build a more transparent input subsidy program. This may entail detailed analysis on existing ICT systems and extant management and oversight as well as recommendations for needed improvements based on policy reform requirements.

C.4 TASKS AND DELIVERABLES

All work under this contract will be mobilized by specific Technical Directives to be issued by MCC over the life of the contract.

The Technical Directives will indicate the specific deliverables required. These deliverables may include narrative reports, presentations, participation in meetings, organization and facilitation of contractor led workshops and other outputs to be indicated by MCC. MCC will indicate where travel may be required for completion of deliverables.

Task 1: Establish an understanding of best practices in national agriculture policy for achieving overall sectoral growth and increased and inclusive private investment;

The Contractor will assist MCC in the development of a framework for assessing general agriculture policy against well-researched and understood best practices for achieving sectoral growth. This will mostly require a literature review but may also necessitate some novel research or analysis, only as agreed prior with MCC. The Contractor is advised to use MCC's Agricultural Economy Program Design Toolkit to gain rapid insight into MCC's processes, investment criteria and essential items to consider when developing project and policy responses. At the conclusion of this task, the Contractor will provide a deliverable that supports MCC at the inception stage for considering agriculture policy across its engagement with partner countries.

Examples, but not exhaustive, of key questions to be answered in the course of this task include the following. The specific areas of inquiry for each assignment will be indicated by MCC in its Technical Directives over the life of the contract:

a. What elements, both in policy and institutional implementation, do countries successful in achieving agricultural growth have in common? What methodologies for determining national priorities are associated with greatest sectoral improvements, i.e. cost competitiveness, import substitution vs export-oriented, input subsidization approaches, etc.?

b. What correlated policies need to be aligned for agricultural strategies or initiatives to succeed; for instance taxation structure, finance, land tenure law, or investment in related public services or infrastructure to achieve desired growth outcomes?

c. What signals or actions are common precursors to increased private investment in the sector?

d. What are the benchmarks for political will and existing private sector advocacy to achieve the highest levels of sectoral growth? What are some appropriate methods to obtain consensus within governments when different pathways are at play?

e. What are the time horizons for increased growth, as a result of policy and implementation shifts that governments, particularly those with high proportion of the population dependent on agriculture, should anticipate? When will impacts be felt by various segments of the population? What are the range of appropriate mitigation measures, if any, for the least advantaged segments?

What areas within the agrifood system will generate the most inclusive economic growth? What are the trajectories for export oriented versus import-substitution strategies on poverty reduction and growth?

Task 2: A) Support compact development through assessments of MCC partner country agricultural policy through consultations, desk review and, in some instances, on-the-ground validation, B) Provide recommendations, aligned with MCC's Investment Criteria and other parameters, for how MCC may be best suited to support existing or revised agricultural policy as part of a specific Compact investment, and C) Review, assess and provide feedback on partner countries' proposals for implementing national agriculture strategies or policies, in whole or in part.

Following the development of a common framework for analyzing the policy environment in Task 1, the Contractor shall then apply this understanding to eligible MCC partner countries' during compact development or implementation. For instance, the Contractor may be asked to provide recommendations based on country context for investing in primary production or agriprocessing to achieve development objectives or to identify key policy and reform opportunities to increase investment.

The analysis of agriculture strategy and policy may also entail estimating the impacts on growth and poverty reduction for different approaches in agricultural prioritization, i.e. export-oriented versus import substitution. This should be conducted in a way that ensures MCC's emphasis on country ownership is maintained while meeting MCC's Investment Criteria. Specifically, in responding to these criteria, the Contractor will also contribute technical input into the creation of cost-benefit analysis to estimate economic benefits of proposed measures. Finally, where applicable, the Contractor may be asked to provide specific responses or recommendations for how best to execute proposed reforms or projects, including proposals for how they could be modified or strengthened to better meet defined best practices.

After a full understanding of a given country's approach to agriculture development and its de jure implementation, MCC may ask the Contractor to further refine recommendations, based on its partner country's proposed interventions formulated during the course of Compact development. This analysis should include: 1) relevance against national agriculture strategy and achievement towards best practices for unlocking sectoral growth; 2) impacts and incidence of growth for different segments of the population; 3) environmental impact estimation; and 4) key requirements to ensure sustainability.

Therefore, activities for this task will include the following, noting that many of the elements contributing to their success may be iterative in nature:

• Assessment of project concepts to i) ensure strategic alignment with prevailing policy and donor landscape ii) provide an evidenced-based analysis of growth potential of proposed investments, iii) determine if proposed interventions can be successfully implemented within the compact lifecycle based on past programming experience/evidence, iv) assess the adequacy of the attention to social, cultural, gender, nutrition, environmental, climate risks, political economy and governance issues, v) identify the risks inherent in the approaches proposed.

• Perform rapid political economy assessments to determine any and all horizontal coordination needed from other ministries and identification of stakeholders and rival interests for executing interventions.

• Support MCC in determining need for further study or detailed design of policy approaches including review of TORs, and development of research designs and instruments.

• Review deliverables from project design studies managed by MCC or partner countries and performed by other consultants.

• Review and develop inputs that are needed for MCC's milestone investment decision documents check-ins.

• Develop recommendations for approaches and methods for rolling out reforms and sequencing of implementing changes to agrifood systems.

• Provide feedback and support on development of monitoring indicators and targets to measure progress and potential project evaluation designs, including impact evaluation design.

• Identify baseline data needed in support of evaluation, if feasible.

• Provide feedback on staffing needs for the proposed program.

• Advise MCC on government responsibility/actions which may need to be considered as conditions for investment.

Additional activities for this task may include:

• Identify opportunities to leverage existing donor investments and successful programs, and note where there is potential for redundancy (expand on existing donor map)

• Further consultations, and review of MCC consultation plans.

• Deep-dive analysis of proposed interventions including associated budget and identification of potential implementation challenges and recommendations to ensure prospects for results achievement and alignment with global best practices.

• Advising MCC on critical decision points and concerns related to project design and implementation.

Task 3: Provide analysis and recommendations for processes and systems crucial for achieving selected policy and institutional reform objectives

Based on the components to be prioritized as part of any agriculture policy and/or institutional capacity intervention, the Contractor will be asked to provide support to MCC in the design and planning of critical system requirements or oversight and management change of its implementation. While not an exhaustive list of these systems, some types of systems that influence sectoral growth and private investment include: public financial (fiscal policy) management, input subsidy programs, strategic food reserves, warehousing and logistics infrastructure, market information systems, natural resource management, marketing platforms, trade policy, procedural reforms to issuing agricultural export permits, etc.

The Contractor may identify and pursue additional data/information needs to further support concept development and project design, including to better understand system constraints, governance constraints and opportunities, social and gender constraints and opportunities, flesh out appropriate entry points and activities, inform geographic target areas, beneficiary selection and partnerships. Finally, the Contractor may be asked to support MCC in its establishment and oversight of its accountable entities (MCA) in partner countries.

Specific to interventions that require MCC investment in agricultural systems (as discussed above), the activities under this task may include:

• Identifying quantitative and qualitative data/information needs and proposing methods to obtain necessary information.

• Collecting data/information, if requested.

• Supporting host government compact development teams and/or MCC to design studies and/or SOWs to obtain the information needed.

• Assessing findings of quantitative and qualitative studies and making recommendations on project design based on study findings.

• Systematically documenting specific data sources, especially those that feed into the Cost-Benefit and Beneficiary Analyses

• Providing support to MCC in defining the position description for staff, developing technical interview questions, reviewing short listed CVs and/or participating as an observer during MCA staff interviews.

• Analyzing the effectiveness of existing systems, including IT systems and their associated internet/electricity, hardware, and user environment. Identifying viable, sustainable levels of technology for new systems for procedures, processes or services within agricultural institutions, including financial, power/internet infrastructure, legal, and human capacity requirements, as well as future O&M approaches.

• Providing due diligence support to MCC in the review of MCA proposed detailed project designs, workplans and budgets.

• Providing support to MCC in the review of Implementing Entity Agreements (IEAs), TORs and/or RFPs developed by the MCA for implementation services and the proposals submitted in response.

• Reviewing and supporting the management of additional procurement activities.

• Monitoring quality and content of program activities and contractor deliverables and performance.

• Reviewing general compliance of contractors implementing the relevant projects and activities of the Compact Program.

• Providing recommendations to strengthen, re-orient or develop Program activities to best achieve Program results.

• Reviewing compliance with condition precedents and government commitments.

• Supporting monitoring of risks associated with performance, implementation, or results.

• Reviewing and/or drafting technical and/or management papers, memoranda, presentations and other documents.

• Providing general technical and/or contractual advice, opinion, recommendations, judgements, ad-hoc analysis, and assistance related to the relevant activities

• Developing lesson learned to inform program design and investment for MCC or other donors operating in similar contexts.

C.5 CONFLICT OF INTEREST

The Contractor and its subcontractors would be precluded from bidding on work and services to be procured by the local Accountable Entity or using funds advanced under a Compact in the relevant country, unless the Contractor submits a mitigation plan sufficient to ameliorate any conflict of interest pursuant to the rules applicable to the procurement process.

C.6 SUBCONTRACTING

During the performance of the tasks above, the contractor may be required to work with local firms to complete the task as needed.

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Section D - Packaging and Marking

SECTION D

The contractor shall ensure the contractor name and contract number are clearly visible on all information submitted to the Contracting Officer Representative, Project Monitor and/or Contracting Officer.

Section E - Inspection and Acceptance Terms

SECTION E

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

Section F - Delivery or Performance

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

9/27/24 9/26/25 MCC Headquarters Millennium Challenge Corporation 1099 Fourteenth Street NW, Suite 700

WASHINGTON DC

US 20005

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9/27/25 9/26/26 MCC Headquarters Millennium Challenge Corporation 1099 Fourteenth Street NW, Suite 700

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9/27/26 9/26/27 MCC Headquarters Millennium Challenge Corporation 1099 Fourteenth Street NW, Suite 700

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9/27/27 9/26/28 MCC Headquarters Millennium Challenge Corporation 1099 Fourteenth Street NW, Suite 700

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9/27/28 9/26/29 MCC Headquarters Millennium Challenge Corporation 1099 Fourteenth Street NW, Suite 700

SECTION F

SECTION F - DELIVERIES OR PERFORMANCE

F.1 PLACE OF PERFORMANCE

The Contractor shall perform services in MCC countries to the extent practical, virtually, or at their own offices, as needed by

MCC.

While performing services in MCC countries, the Contractor shall be responsible for arranging temporary office space as would be required for work not taking place through site visits or meetings with project stakeholders, if required.

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F.2 DELIVERABLES

The contractor shall provide the deliverables noted below as requested via Technical Direction by the COR and/or PM. At a minimum, the following will be required:

Mission Reports: The contractor shall submit Mission workplans and Mission completion reports after each Mission within 2 weeks of completion of the Mission.

Technical Directive Reports: Each technical directive will provide guidance on the required deliverables, including reports, assessments, reviews, and related assigned tasks, including any periodic check-ins or progress updates required additional to deliverable work. Deliverables from these directives will be due according to the technical directive workplan.

Coordination Meeting Notes: The contractor shall document the minutes and action points from all coordination meetings in a shared document within 1 day of all scheduled meetings.

Workshop(s): The contractor shall be prepared to coordinate workshops as needed per the Technical Directive provided by the COR/PM to include venue, IT equipment, refreshments, interpreters/translators and other items as required.

F.3 DELIVERABLE FORMATS

All reports, plans and analysis are to be submitted in English or other languages as required by the COR/PM (as instructed by MCC), in electronic copy using WINDOWS based MS-Office products including WORD for text, data tables in EXCEL, appropriate MS-Office 2010 or later versions of programs for exhibits, and schedules using MS-Project. Files containing graphs, flowcharts or diagrams should be submitted in PDF printable version. Digital photo files should be submitted in JPG format. GIS data should be submitted in PDF printable files. Presentations should be prepared with PowerPoint.

F.4 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.

F.5 ESTIMATED TRAVEL

The not to exceed amount in Section B estimates the following trips to MCC countries and/or to MCC headquarters offices.

Base Period – 10 trips

Option Period One – 9 trips

Option Period Two – 9 trips

Option Period Three – 9 trips

Option Period Four - 9 trips

F.6 TIMING AND REPORTING

All formal communication with MCC, including required deliverables and 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.7 MCC TECHNICAL DIRECTION

The following provision may be followed:

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.

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

Constitutes an assignment of additional work outside the statement of work;

Constitutes a change as defined in the changes clause;

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;

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

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

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

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:

Rescinded in its entirety; or

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.

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 this contract.

Any action(s) taken by the Contractor in response to any direction given by any person other than the Contracting Officer or the COR/PM shall be at the Contractor's risk.

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: Fax:

Contact Details:

Property Administration Office Address

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

COR Office Address

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

Issuing Office Address

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

Payment Office Address

IBC-FIN

Interior Business Center M/S D-2773 7301 West Mansfield Avenue

Lakewood CO 80235-2230

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)

IPP-001 Electronic Invoicing and Payment Requirements - Invoice Processing Platform (IPP) Payment requests must be submitted electronically through the U. S. Department of the Treasury's Invoice Processing Platform (IPP) system using the "Bill to Agency" of Interior Business Center - FMD.

"Payment request" means any request for contract financing payment or invoice payment by the Contractor. To constitute a proper invoice, the payment request must comply with the requirements identified in the applicable Prompt Payment clause included in the contract, or the clause 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions - Commercial Items included in commercial item contracts. The IPP website address is: https://www.ipp.gov.

The Contractor must use the IPP website to register, access and use IPP for submitting requests for payment. The Contractor Government Business Point of Contact (as listed in SAM) will receive enrollment instructions via email from the Federal Reserve prior to the contract award date, but no more than 3 - 5 business days of the contract award date.

Contractor assistance with enrollment can be obtained by contacting the IPP Production Helpdesk via email IPPCustomerSupport@fiscal.treasury.gov or phone (866) 973-3131.

If the Contractor is unable to comply with the requirement to use IPP for submitting invoices for payment, the Contractor must submit a waiver request in writing to the Contracting Officer with its proposal or quotation.

(End of Custom 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 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.

MCC 52.232-73 TRAVEL REIMBURSEMENT (MAY 2017)

Policy.When authorized as part of the Scope of Work on this contract/order and within the contract/order ceiling and as approved by the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) and/or other MCC officials as described below, travel expenses incurred in performance of technical directives issued under this contractor/order may be reimbursed as allowed by the Federal Travel Regulations (FTR) in effect at the time of travel. MCC's supplemental policy interpretations are derived from the FTR and cannot grant additional benefits or adjust processes defined in the FTR. Supplemental policies of MCC set forth below:

a) Traveler Responsibilities. All contractor travelers must:

1) Exercise the same care in incurring expenses that a prudent person would exercise if traveling on personal business;

2) Travel in accordance with the FTR and the MCC policies included in this document; and

3) Pay any charges or fees associated with non-compliance of FTR or any MCC policies included in this document, and any expenses incurred for personal convenience. For example, the traveler may become personally responsible for travel costs associated with unauthorized use of other than coach class accommodations, failing to follow the Fly American Act requirements, exceeding per diem rates, changing departure or return flights, purchasing unapproved items, etc. regardless of the fact that travel arrangements may have been booked by others (e.g., Travel Agency).

b) Cabin Class Standards

1) The standard cabin class for contractor air-travel is coach class, regardless of destination or travel time.

2) Coach "premium" class may be authorized for destinations which have a travel time of more than 14 hours, consistent with the Federal Travel Regulations and the approval standards outlined in paragraph (f) of this document.

3) Business class travel accommodations will NOT be authorized except as determined through the approval process outlined in paragraph (f) of this document.