Attachment J.5 BUDGET GUIDANCE AND TEMPLATE.xlsx

This document provides budget guidance and templates for a solicitation from USAID/Colombia seeking proposals to implement the Equitable Finance Activity. The solicitation will result in a single hybrid cost-plus-fixed-fee IDIQ contract with an estimated total value between $24.5 million to $28.5 million over its period of performance. The solicitation is seeking proposals from U.S. and non-U.S. nonprofit and for-profit organizations to improve access to formal financial services in rural, underserved, and conflict-affected areas of Colombia and mobilize long-term capital for USAID/Colombia's CDCS priorities. The solicitation includes budget templates to be completed by offerors organized by cost line items and labor categories for the base period and each option period, as well as guidance on indirect cost rates, fixed fees, and level of effort assumptions. Proposals are due on the date and time specified in Section L of the solicitation. The competition will use a highest technical rating with fair and reasonable price/realistic cost process rather than a tradeoff approach.