Sources Sought Notice Local Capacity Development.pdf

Sources Sought Notice

This is a Sources Sought notice. This is not a request for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. It is a survey to identify potential sources. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is performing this market survey to determine if an adequate number of organizations are interested in and capable of implementing and capable of conducting a local network/systems assessment to support the upcoming USAID/Kosovo Local Works activity.

Background

USAID/Kosovo was recently selected to participate in the Local Works program. USAID’s Local Works is a unique program designed to advance locally led development and enhance the Agency’s ability to empower local actors to take the lead in addressing their own development challenges. You can learn more by visiting the USAID Local Works page.

USAID/Kosovo aims to bring together local communities/target stakeholders to work around a common initiative -- recycling. The mission intends to work on the co-design to a solution for socio-economic cohesion with four targeted local stakeholder groups: 1) youth; 2) Kosovo Roma, Egyptian and Ashkali minority groups -- principal informal recyclable material collectors; 3) for-profit recyclable material processors/recyclable companies; and 4) local and national government. This design provides an opportunity to test out the collaboration of different socio-economic structures in Kosovo and derive different approaches to building their own solutions to recycling.

Project Requirements

In order to inform the design of this new activity, USAID/Kosovo is performing a market survey to identify organizations who are interested in and capable of carrying out a local network/systems assessment to analyze local development actors (based on the stakeholder groups identified above) and assess the relationships and levels of influence between those actors to help identify potential Local Works partners and stakeholders. Additional sub-objectives include:

1. Identify the most salient organizations with meaningful ties to other network actors.

2. Inform Local Works strategy and operational planning for strengthening local networks and recommend capacity building actions to increase the effectiveness of their initiatives and networks.

3. Understand dynamics among network actors and their impact on the success of individual organizations.

Anticipated Period and Place of Performance

The anticipated period of performance for the assessment is 2 months (January – February 2020). The project will be implemented in Kosovo with preference going to a local Kosovo organization.

Submission Guidelines

Interested organizations should submit a statement addressing the following points:

1. Capacity of your organization to perform the work described above

2. Description of past clients (governmental, non-governmental)

3. Suggest the geographic areas the project should focus and provide a rationale for the selected area.

https://www.usaid.gov/partnership-opportunities/ngo/localworks

Statements sent in response to this Sources Sought notice should not exceed three (3) single-sided pages (including attachments and charts) using an 11-point font size minimum.

Send the statements electronically in Microsoft Word or Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf) by Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 17:00 local Kosovo time to both:

Elyssa Jeter Acquisition and Assistance Specialist USAID/Kosovo ejeter@usaid.gov

Fiolla Radoniqi Acquisition and Assistance Specialist USAID/Kosovo fradoniqi@usaid.gov

Disclaimer and Important Notes

This notice does not obligate USAID to award a contract or cooperative agreement or otherwise pay for the information provided in the response. USAID reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Respondents are advised that USAID is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. After a review of the responses received, a pre-solicitation synopsis and solicitation may be published on the Federal Business Opportunities website www.fedbizopps.gov or Grants.gov website www.grants.gov. Responses to this notice will not be considered responses to a solicitation.

The organization selected to perform the assessment may be excluded from participating in the follow on Local Works procurement.

Confidentiality

No proprietary, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in your response. USAID reserves the right to use any non-proprietary information in any resulting solicitation(s).

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