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Presolicitation Notice Description

REQ-EGAT-11-000010

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) anticipates award of an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Contract to provide technical assistance and other support relating to public financial management. The Public Financial Management (PFM) IDIQ will be managed by the Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade (EGAT). PFM addresses four factors which are keys to USAID’s goal of achieving broad-based equitable economic growth: (1) increasing and expanding human capacity; (2) improving the policy environment to promote efficiency and economic opportunity for all members of society; (3) sound management of institutions; and (4) good governance. Under the PFM IDIQ, services will be provided in the following areas: macroeconomic policy, fiscal policy, public finance, public debt operations and management, monetary policy, banking and central bank operations, trade and exchange rate policy, labor markets, sector policy analysis, national income accounting, and strategic development.

USAID anticipates the award of approximately seven (7) five-year Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contracts, including approximately two (2) small business set-aside IDIQs, as a result of this RFP. USAID anticipates that the maximum ordering limitation of the contracts resulting from this RFP will be $700,000,000 over the five (5) year ordering period. Note that this ceiling applies across all contracts and cannot be exceeded in the aggregate; each successful contractor will be eligible to compete on all task orders until the shared ceiling for all contracts is reached. There is no guarantee on the number of contracts awarded, the number of task orders that any one firm will receive, or the amount of money each firm is entitled to beyond the minimum monetary amount stated in the RFP. The NAICS Code for this procurement is 541990.

The solicitation will be posted on the FEDBIZOPPS web page (http://www.fedbizopps.gov) not less than fifteen (15) days after this notice is issued. In accordance with FAR 5.102(d), availability of the solicitation is limited to this electronic medium only. Requests for other copies of the solicitation will be disregarded without notice to the requestor. No phone requests will be accepted, no solicitation will be available for pick-up, and no walk-ins will be allowed. Questions must be directed to Mr. William Franklin, Contract Specialist, U.S. Agency for International Development, M/OAA/EGAT, (email:wfranklin@usaid.gov). The address where questions can be sent will be part of a future amendment to the solicitation.