Amendment 3 - Strengthening Systems for Health Security Activity - RFA 72052725RFA00001.pdf

NOFO NO. 72052725RFA00001 - STRENGTHENING SYSTEMS FOR HEALTH SECURITY ACTIVITY

(SSHS) AMENDMENT NO. 3

The purpose of this Amendment is (1) provide responses to all questions submitted by the Questions and Answers deadline and (2) update the conformed solicitation with changes resulting from the Questions and Answers.

Amendment No.3 includes two new Annexes:

● Annex A contains the conformed solicitation, displaying all changes made to the solicitation highlighted in yellow. Annex A is for ease/information. If there are any discrepancies, between the Amendment and the Annex, the information under I.

Conformed Solicitation on the Amendment is the controlling information.

● Annex B contains a list of all the questions and answers.

I. CONFORMED SOLICITATION

Below is a list of all the changes made to the Solicitation. Annex A is the conformed solicitation with actual changes made in track changes and in red text.

NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITY 72052725RFA00001 – LIST OF CHANGES

1. On Page 16 and 17, C.4 RESULTS FRAMEWORK, C.4.11 SMALL GRANTS FUND, make the following changes:

Delete “The SGF will have a range between $1,000 - $50,000” and replace it with “Each grant of the small grants fund (SGF) is intended to be in the $1,000 - $10,000 range.

USAID is planning that the Activity will allocate up to 5% ($950,000.00) of the Total Estimated Amount of the award to be allocated to the small grants fund for the life of the activity,”.

2. On Page 19, C.5 MAGNITUDE OF CHANGE, delete the second paragraph in its entirety and replace with the following:

“Specifically, the value of this investment will be demonstrated by how the activity contributes to the GOP’s overall efforts to achieve and sustain a score of at least 3 or 4 on a 5-point scale. This assessment will be conducted using globally recognized tools, such as a Voluntary External Evaluation (VEE) or Joint External Evaluation (JEE) (if available for the year under review). If these are unavailable, the SPAR will be used to measure national health security capacity.”

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STRENGTHENING SYSTEMS FOR HEALTH SECURITY ACTIVITY (SSHS) AMENDMENT NO. 3

3. On Page 25, D.2 TECHNICAL APPLICATION FORMAT, make the following changes:

Delete “1 page max and” from b. Table of Contents and d. Acronyms List.

Delete “1 page each” from ANNEX E: Subawards/Consortium Documents.

4. On Page 25, D.2 TECHNICAL APPLICATION FORMAT, D.2.b Table of Contents, make the following changes:

Delete “is excluded from the 10-page limitation.” and replace with “will not count against the page limit.”

5. On Page 29, D.2 TECHNICAL APPLICATION FORMAT, f. Management and Staffing Approach, 4. Animal and Wildlife Health Technical Lead, Qualifications, make the following changes:

On bullet no.3, delete the word “required” and replace it with the word “preferred.”

6. On Page 39, D.3. BUSINESS APPLICATION FORMAT, D.3.e. History of Performance, delete the first paragraph and replace it with the following:

“The applicant must provide information regarding its recent history of performance for its three most relevant awards in the past 5 years. This includes cost-reimbursement or fixed price contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements, including any fixed amount awards involving similar or related programs and budget, as follows:”

7. On Page 70, ANNEX IV - ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS, add the following term:

PIRS Performance Indicator Reference Sheet

ALL OTHER TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITY REMAIN

UNCHANGED.

[END OF AMENDMENT NO.3]