Indonesia-BAA-DIA.pdf

BAA Number: Indonesia-BAA-DIA Issuance Date: June 24, 2015

The USAID/Indonesia Development Innovation Accelerator for Indonesia’s Development Challenges

I. Overview

A. Opportunity Description

USAID/Indonesia’s Development Innovation Accelerator (DIA) is a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) that seeks opportunities to co-create, co-design, co-invest, and collaborate in basic and applied research and development on Indonesia’s Development Challenges. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) invites individuals, organizations and companies to participate with USAID in response to Development Challenges in Indonesia through Addenda issued under the Accelerator, as described below, by providing research, innovations, technologies and partnerships that further USAID/Indonesia’s development goal of “A stronger Indonesia advancing national and global development.”

B. Federal Agency Name

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Indonesia.

C. Opportunity Title

The USAID/Indonesia Development Innovation Accelerator.

D. Announcement Type

This Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) serves to inform the public of the opportunity for funding to advance development priorities of mutual concern to Indonesia and the United States. Specific Research Areas of Interest, which will include actual opportunities for partnering to address Development Challenges in Indonesia, will be issued as Addenda to the Accelerator. The terms of the Accelerator apply to each Addendum. Individual Development Challenges in the Addenda may have specific requirements for evaluation criteria and administrative information, such as deadlines for responses and the requirements for Expressions of Interest and Concept Papers.

E. Opportunity Number

TO BE DETERMINED

Indonesia-BAA-DIA For Indonesia’s Development Challenges

F. Authority

This Broad Agency Announcement is issued in accordance with the Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreement Act of 1977 for potential assistance awards and the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 35.016 for potential acquisition awards. This is not a FAR Part 15 procurement.

G. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Numbers

98.001 – USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas

98.013 – Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science, Technology, Innovation and

Partnership

H. Response Date

The response dates and instructions to responders are established by individual Addenda to the Accelerator.

II. Overall Purpose and Specific Rights Reserved for the U.S. Government

A. The USAID/Indonesia Development Innovation Accelerator is a competitive approach to collaborate on activities that harness science, innovation, technologies and partnerships to solve Development Challenges in Indonesia, allowing USAID to:

1. reach out to potential partners with recognized expertise in relevant areas;

2. co-create, co-design, co-invest, and collaborate with partners; and

3. discover, test, and scale breakthrough innovations to solve Development

Challenges more quickly and cost-effectively.

B. Multiple awards are anticipated. The amount of resources made available under the Accelerator, if any, will depend on the activities designed and the availability of funds. Some award types may not include any funding.

C. The Accelerator reserves specific rights for the U.S. Government, in addition to rights described elsewhere in this document or by law or regulation, including:

1. The right to select for collaboration and award all, some, one, or none of the activities produced in response to the Accelerator and its associated Addenda.

2. The right to determine whether discussions and/or negotiations are necessary or advantageous for the U.S. Government’s interest before making an award.

3. The right to accept proposals or co-designed activities in their entirety or to select only portions of proposals or co-designed activities for award or co-investment.

4. The right to select for award an instrument type that is appropriate to the specific development context, partner relationship, and proposal selected for award. Instruments types include, but are not limited to: contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, Global Development Alliance agreements, Development Innovation Agreements, inter-agency agreements, government-to-government agreements, donor-to-donor agreements, and memoranda of understanding. In addition, the U.S. Government may craft new instrument types to meet the needs of specific relationships.

5. The right to co-create projects with one or more participants under the Accelerator, when it is in the best interest of the U.S. Government.

6. The right to request any additional, necessary documentation. Such additional information may include, but is not limited to, a further detailed proposal or application, budget, and representations and certifications.

7. The right to fund or co-invest in activities in phases, with options for continued work at the end of one or more of the phases.

8. The right to award only portions of a proposal, application or activity generated under the Accelerator or associated Addenda.

9. The right to award instruments under the Accelerator or associated Addenda that do not commit or exchange monetary resources.

10. The right to remove collaboration participants from award consideration should the parties fail to reach agreement on activity concept, design, award terms, conditions, or cost/price within a reasonable time, the participant fails to timely provide requested additional information, or the U.S. Government believes it is in its best interest.

III. Opportunity Information

A. Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) Overview

USAID/Indonesia works as part of the U.S. Government to advance development priorities of mutual concern to Indonesia and the United States. This Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) outlines our engagement with Indonesia over the next five years in the context of its democratic consolidation, growing economy, rising global leadership and remaining development challenges. With a population of 240 million and gross domestic product (GDP) of $1 trillion, Indonesia is a major economic partner for the U.S. Yet, it is still home to 40 million people living below the international poverty line of $1.25 a day (the sixth highest figure of extreme poverty in the world). It is also the world’s largest Muslim-majority democracy, the world’s third largest carbon emitter and steward of the world’s second greatest biodiversity.

Indonesia’s success matters greatly to the United States. The engagement in this CDCS supports the U.S.-Indonesia Comprehensive Partnership, signed by Presidents Obama and Yudhoyono in 2010, to broaden, deepen, and elevate bilateral relations between our two countries.

Indonesia has undergone a tremendous transformation in the past 50 years. During USAID’s early engagement with Indonesia, the nation suffered widespread poverty, authoritarian rule, minimal infrastructure, and other challenges. Today, Indonesia is a rising economic power, vibrant democracy, leader in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Asia- Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), and member of the G-20. Indonesia’s democratic and economic advancement over the past 15 years has led to its emergence as a valued regional leader and global voice.

Indonesia’s development challenges increasingly transcend the archipelago and impact the region and the world, notably in the environment and health sectors. While economic growth has exceeded 6% in recent years, the poor and most vulnerable –nearly half the population – still lives on less than $2 per day. Decentralization of government, generally a positive democratic development, has not evened access to basic service across the archipelago.

Indonesia still struggles with fragile institutions, endemic corruption, and intolerance, all priorities for our partnership. Indonesia is a growing global presence with increasing global clout, but has yet to fully realize the positive benefits of democratization and economic growth.

Recognizing President Obama’s vision of working with the international community to eradicate extreme poverty over the next two decades, Indonesia will continue to be a key partner in realizing that goal. This CDCS seeks to reorient USAID strategic engagement in Indonesia and therefore provides an opportunity to address extreme poverty in a way that both supports the President’s vision and is contextualized to USAID’s partnership in Indonesia.

When Indonesians look for U.S. support they do not seek money. They seek technical assistance, capacity building, technology, and ideas that foster innovation and reform. The days of a donor-recipient relationship are over. Indonesia and the U.S. are partners and co-investors in Indonesia’s development.

A stronger Indonesia advancing national and global development, our goal for this strategy, reflects our joint efforts to address both internal development gaps and external development opportunities. USAID’s investment over the next five years will focus on four Development Objectives:

1. Democratic governance strengthened

2. Essential human services for the poorest and most vulnerable improved

3. Global development priorities of mutual interest advanced

4. Collaborative achievement in science, technology, and innovation increased

While the first two Development Objectives focus on internal development concerns, the others are more outward looking, including working with Indonesia in other countries. Across our strategy, USAID will be a co-investor along with Indonesian public and private institutions. We will build strong relationships with the Government of Indonesia, civil society and the private sector, and work closely across the U.S. Embassy, to promote a strong, democratic Indonesia.

B. Accelerator Addenda

USAID/Indonesia will issue periodic Addenda to the Accelerator that will present specific Development Challenges. These Development Challenge Addenda will address identified problems, solutions, scalability opportunities, feasibility studies, and other research and development initiatives addressing one or more of USAID/Indonesia’s focus areas identified above. Potential partners will respond to the specific requirements of the individual Development Challenges Addendum to be considered for participation in that Addendum.

C. Collaboration

This intent of the Accelerator is to allow co-creation, co-design and co-investment to the maximum extent to create high-quality, effective partnerships with great efficiency in time and resources. Collaboration includes:

1. Co-creation. Co-creation occurs before the concept is developed. Together, the participant (s) and the U.S. Government, represented by the Activity Manager, work together as a Co-Creation Team to write and/or revise the Concept Paper, and jointly present the Concept Paper to the Science/Peer Review Board. A Co- Creation Team may generate one or more Concept Papers depending on the nature of the Research Area of Interest and proposed activities.

2. The Science/Peer Review Board reviews the Concept Paper and recommends the concept for further co-development. The Review Board will use the criteria in Section IV, below, and/or the criteria specified in the relevant Addendum, to make its recommendation to the Contracting/Agreement Officer.

3. Co-design. Co-design occurs after the Review Board recommends the project for further development. Once the Contracting/Agreement Officer has accepted the Review Board’s recommendation, the Co-Creation Team becomes the Co-Design Team. At this point, the Contracting/Agreement Officer may determine the general nature of the award type or the specific award type, if any, depending on the nature of the project, to facilitate project design.

Alternatively, depending on the nature of the activity, the Contracting/Agreement Officer may make this determination later in the process to allow the Co-Design Team wide latitude to explore different ways to construct the appropriate relationship. During co-design, the Co-Design Team will design the technical approach, partner relationships, general resource requirements, and management control of the project under the guidance of the Contracting/Agreement Officer.

4. Co-investment. Co-investment refers to the U.S. Government’s strategic aim to align partnerships along mutual or complimentary development goals and therefore embrace shared responsibility, shared risk, and shared resourcing.

Shared resourcing may be accomplished through funding by both or multiple parties, either through cash resources or the exchange of other resources.

Other resources can be both tangible and intangible, such as in-kind contributions, expertise, intellectual property, brand value, high-value coordination, and access to key people, places, and information. Co-investment does not require equally shared resourcing (such as 1:1 leverage), but rather resource contributions that are appropriate to the objectives of the specific activity, considering the comparative advantages brought by the participation of each party and the award type.

IV. General Criteria for Consideration

A. This section provides general criteria for USAID/Indonesia’s priorities for concept consideration. Each individual Accelerator Addendum will specify the criteria for selection of submissions under that Addendum. The Science/Peer Review Board will use these criteria, general and specific, to establish the merit of a concept. Concepts are not evaluated against other concepts, nor are potential partners evaluated against other potential partners. Concepts are evaluated solely against the evaluation criteria from the Accelerator and the applicable Accelerator Addendum.

B. The following general criteria apply to all concepts:

1. Concepts developed under the Accelerator or its associated Addenda must be within USAID’s strategic interest to pursue. Generally, strategic interest is defined as being within the scope of USAID/Indonesia’s CDCS, though the Mission Director may determine that an activity that is not within the CDCS is within USAID’s strategic interest on an exceptional basis.

2. Concepts developed under the Accelerator or its related Addenda must appear to be achievable, allowing for a high degree of risk appropriate for new and innovative technologies and approaches.

3. Concepts developed under the Accelerator or its related Addenda must be structured to produce useful data and measurable results.

4. Decisions regarding USAID’s pursuit of a particular project, technology or relationship are based on available evidence, data, and resulting analysis.

USAID/Indonesia seeks solutions using scientific research, innovations and technologies that can have a significant impact in Indonesia’s development and can achieve that impact at scale (i.e., an impact on the lives of millions of people). At different stages, USAID will consider different levels of risk, evidence, and data on the potential for impact and scale.

5. At the initial stage of sourcing, prototype or proof of concept, the design of the scientific research, innovation or technology should be a new or a dramatically-improved approach with the potential for significant impact and/or a significantly lower cost.

C. At the pilot stage, the product or service must be viable. It must demonstrate significant impact and/or cost reduction, behavioral change, and customer demand. This includes, but is not limited to, creating novel ways of communicating with and connecting to beneficiaries.

1. At the transitioning to scale stage, data and evidence must indicate that:

significant impact can be achieved at a lower price point; a business or other implementation model is being tested and sustainability demonstrated; any legal or regulatory challenges are understood as part of a market strategy; and the quality of the impact, product or service will not be significantly affected by expansion or widespread adoption. Proposals that progress to this point will be reviewed for endorsement to scale across Indonesia, and potentially to other countries and regions.

2. Concepts that combine these stages using agile development methodologies are encouraged.

D. The reputation of organizations, their past performance, and the managerial and technical ability of the person or team of people engaged in the endeavor are significant considerations in assessing the potential and the risks associated with potential partnerships and awards.

V. Award Process

The award process under the Accelerator generally has the following steps:

A. Expression of Interest

Potential partners will submit an Expression of Interest in response to a Development Challenge Addendum. Expressions of Interest are generally short (2-5 pages) and contain information as outlined in the Accelerator Development Challenge Addendum, such as the talent team offered for collaboration; the capacity, capability, and experience of the proposed partner organization;

any partner/resource relationships; and proposed resource contributions. USAID will assess each Expression of Interest against the specific partner goals and criteria listed in the relevant Addendum and select the partner(s) best suited for collaboration. Note that the U.S.

Government may reach out to potential partners requesting an Expression of Interest.

B. Development of the Concept Paper

For Expressions of Interest that USAID deems to have merit, USAID will invite the potential partner(s) to collaborate. Working together, USAID and the potential partner(s) will produce a Concept Paper. During this phase of co-creation the parties will establish the problem statement based on the Research Area of Interest, a viable solution, general resource requirements, and partnership contributions (resources and comparative advantages) to the solution. The Concept Paper, generally no more than 10 pages, will explain the project as envisioned by the Co-Creation Team.

C. Review by the Peer Review Board

All Concept Papers will be reviewed by the Science/Peer Review Board, comprised of development experts convened by USAID/Indonesia, in accordance with USAID policy and U.S.

Government regulations, including FAR Part 6.102(d)(2). The Science/Peer Review Board will recommend whether a Concept Paper should be graduated to co-development. Using its technical expertise, the Peer Review Board may suggest revisions/additions to the project as well as potential partners and resources.

D. Contracting/Agreement Officer’s Determination

The Contracting/Agreement Officer will review the Science/Peer Review Board’s recommendations and consider other information, such as resource availability, preliminary partner responsibility assessment, and USAID priorities. The Contracting/Agreement Officer will determine whether the concept will be moved forward to co-development. The Contracting/Agreement Officer may determine the anticipated instrument type to facilitate project design, or may advise the Co-Design Team on possible instruments and relationship types and determine the instrument at a later time in the co-development process.

E. Mission Management Consent

The Mission Management will review the concept and determine what programmatic pre-award activities may be necessary, such as a Project Appraisal Document amendment, completion of pre-obligation checklists, etc. Mission Management may task the Co-Design Team to draft programmatic documentation concurrently with their program design. At this point, Mission Management consent does not approve the activity or authorize commitment of funding.

Consent only allows the Co-Design Team to proceed with the collaboration.

F. Proposals/Applications

USAID will work with partners to co-design the activity and, when applicable, collaborate with the partners to prepare a proposal or application. Full proposals/applications are generally 30- 60 pages in length and describe in more detail the potential partner’s implementation, resource partners, capacity, management and organizational structure, past performance and budget, as well as representations and certifications. However, the length and content of the proposal/application depends greatly on the nature of the partnership and the type of mechanism.

G. Additional Partners/Resources

During co-creation and co-design, the Co-Creation/Co-Design Team may identify additional partners and resources, as well as determine whether additional mechanisms are necessary to implement the project. Any addition of a new partner to the Co-Creation or Co-Design Team requires the approval of the Contracting/Agreement Officer.

H. Final Review and Negotiation

Following any necessary internal USAID/Indonesia reviews of the activity design, the USAID/Indonesia Contracting/Agreement Officer will conduct the final review and negotiation, choose the instrument type, analyze cost reasonableness, and determine the responsibility of any potential partner receiving U.S. Government funding as a result of this collaboration. Based on this and other information, the Contracting/Agreement Officer will make the final determination of whether the potential partner is an Apparently Successful Partner and collaboratively craft an award instrument with the Apparently Successful Partner. If the

Apparently Successful Partner and USAID cannot arrive at a mutually agreeable arrangement, the Contracting/Agreement Officer will cancel the project at no cost to the U.S. Government.

I. Award

The USAID/Indonesia Contracting/Agreement Officer will award the instrument. Where a specific instrument type is contemplated that is not within the Contracting/Agreement Officer’s authority, the appropriate authority will award the instrument in accordance with USAID/Indonesia Mission Orders and standing agreements.

VI. Award Information

A. Awards under the Accelerator will be based on responses to individual Addenda, which set out the Development Challenge(s).

B. No responses will be considered under the Accelerator until an Addendum has been issued; only submissions that are responsive to a specific Development Challenge Addendum will be considered. Any proposal, Expression of Interest or Concept Paper received that is not in response to a Development Challenge Addendum will not be considered. However, USAID encourages interested parties to submit suggestions for Development Challenge Addenda.

C. Awards under the Accelerator will be made to Apparently Successful Partners on the basis of the ability to dramatically further USAID/Indonesia’s Development Objectives. USAID is seeking new applications of science, technologies, innovations, and partnerships that provide the best value to the U.S. Government and have the potential to substantially contribute to this goal.

D. Proposals identified for negotiation may result in contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, Global Development Alliance agreements, Development Innovation Agreements, inter-agency agreements, government-to-government agreements, donor-to-donor agreements, memoranda of understanding, or alternative agreement types, depending upon the nature of the work proposed, the required degree of U.S. Government involvement, and other factors. The USAID Contracting/Agreement Officer will determine the award instrument type and negotiate terms and conditions with awardees. USAID may select the award instrument it deems appropriate.

E. Public, private, for-profit, and non-profit organizations, as well as institutions of higher education, public international organizations, non-governmental organizations, U.S. and non- U.S. governmental organizations, and international donor organizations are eligible under the Accelerator, unless otherwise stated in the individual Accelerator Addendum. All organizations must be determined to be responsive to the Accelerator and sufficiently responsible to perform or participate in the final award type.

F. Whether cost share, match, and/or leverage are required will be determined by the individual Accelerator Addendum, final award type, and/or the mutual agreement of the parties.

Nothing in the Accelerator precludes reasonable cost sharing, matching, leveraging or their exchange or resources arrangements, and proposers are encouraged to suggest creative approaches to resourcing projects.

VII. Standard Clauses and Provisions of Award

The standard clauses or provisions for awards are generally prescribed by law and regulation and will vary considerable by award type. Information regarding clauses and provisions will be offered to the Apparently Successful Partner when the award type is identified.

VIII. Obtaining the Accelerator and Addenda

The Accelerator and any future Addenda can be downloaded from http://grants.gov and http://fbo.gov. Issuance of the Accelerator does not constitute an award or commitment on the part of USAID, nor does it commit USAID or any of its funding partners to pay for costs incurred in the preparation and submission of proposals. Further, USAID reserves the right to reject any or all proposals received.

http://grants.gov/ http://fbo.gov/