Pre-solicitation Notice - Morodok Baitang.pdf

PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE

Project Title : USAID Morodok Baitang (formerly Eastern Plain Landscape)

Place of Performance : Cambodia

The purpose of this notice is to comply with the synopses and pre-solicitation notice requirements of FAR 5.2, Synopses of Proposed Contract Actions. Any solicitation resulting from this notice will be handled in accordance with FAR 5.102(d); therefore, availability of any resulting solicitation package will be limited to this electronic medium. Accordingly, interested vendors, especially small businesses, are encouraged to register themselves as an interested vendor.

The United States Agency for International Development, Cambodia (USAID/Cambodia) intends to release a solicitation for a project titled “USAID Morodok Baitang.” The purpose of this activity is to promote economic growth, inclusive natural resource governance, biodiversity conservation, and low emissions development. It will build on past and current USAID/Cambodia investments in biodiversity conservation and emissions reductions;

community income generation and private sector engagement with ecotourism, carbon credit, and wildlife-friendly agricultural enterprises; and inclusive natural resource governance. This activity will reorient USAID/Cambodia away from broad landscapes and will add market-based approaches as a primary focus. USAID/Cambodia solicited stakeholder input to inform the development of the Activity Description in a Request for Information No. RFI-442-21-002 published on both beta.sam.gov and grants.gov on December 11, 2020.

USAID Morodok Baitang is designed to foster sustainable, conservation-friendly, climate-smart, and socially equitable economic growth to achieve Cambodian national development goals. To accomplish this, the activity will support strategic partnerships between rural communities, private sector actors, and their development partners to increase revenues and employment opportunities from enterprises whose profitability is derived from improved natural resource management, biodiversity protection, low emissions, and inclusive decision making for natural resource use and governance.

The proposed objectives for the USAID Morodok Baitang activity are as follows:

Objective 1: To improve biophysical conditions in target areas by partnering with natural resource-dependent communities, private sector actors, and other development partners to enhance biodiversity conservation and low emissions development;

Objective 2: To increase economic benefits from conservation-friendly, climate-smart, and socially equitable market systems with private sectors actors and natural resource-dependent communities; and