Amendment 0001 Attachment - Webinar Presentation.pdf

June 18, 2020

Pre‐submission Webinar For the Randomized Controlled Trial on Interventions to Increase Electricity Connections in Urban Burkina Faso

Disclaimers

• Information provided in these slides and in the corresponding webinar is for the purpose of enhancing industry’s understanding of MCC’s requirement and shall not be considered or interpreted as changing the terms and conditions of the solicitation. The RFQ and any subsequent amendments will be the governing documents and communications for this procurement.

• This event is being recorded. However, the recording will not be shared/posted publicly.

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Housekeeping Items

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Team Introductions Contracts & Grants Management (CGM)

• Regina Maxwell – Contracting Officer

• Cindy Guo – Contract Specialist

Economic Analysis Division (EA)

• Francis Mulangu – Economist, Project Monitor

Department of Policy and Evaluation (DPE)

• LeJuan Butler – Staff Assistant, Contracting Officer’s Representative

Summary of Requirement

26 Months Performance Period

• Base: 8 months

• Option 1: 6 months

• Option 2: 12 months

13 Tasks

• Base: (1 – 7)

• Option 1: (8 – 10)

• Option 2: (11 – 13)

11 (6 Key) Deliverables

• Workplan

• Experiment design proposal (including draft questionnaire and experimental protocol)

• Baseline report

• Interim report

• Final report

• Compact implementation recommendation report*

Economic Analysis Division

•This analysis identifies the binding constraints to private investment and entrepreneurship that hold back economic growth in the country the most. The results of this analysis enable the country, together with MCC, to select activities most likely to contribute to sustainable, poverty‐reducing growth.

Constraint Analysis

• In MCC’s cost‐benefit analyses, the costs of a project include all necessary economic costs—financial expenses covered by MCC and other parties, as well as opportunity costs of non‐financial resources expended. Benefits include the increased income of a country’s population or the increased value‐added generated by producers (firms and households) that can be attributed to the proposed project.

Cost/Benefit Analysis

•Beneficiary Analysis attempts to describe which segments of society will realize what levels of forecasted increase in incomes. It is most commonly used to estimate MCC projects’ poverty impacts – or the flow of benefits to various income categories – defined using the World Bank’s international poverty lines.

Beneficiary Analysis

Burkina Faso II Compact Summary

No Projects

1 Strengthening Power Sector Effectiveness (reform + technical assistance/institutional capacity building, support to IPPs)

Cost-Effective and Reliable Energy Project New Load Dispatch Center and Battery Storage Plants to support increased supply and reliability of cheaper imports and solar

Grid Development and Access Project Rehabilitation/Expansion of Transmission Grid in two largest cities Distribution System Upgrades and funds to facilitate more reliable access to existing and new customers to be added

Project 3 – Distribution and Access Zones under Consideration for Network Extension

Electrification/Densification (Ouagadougou) Electrification/Densification (Bobo‐Dioulasso)

What is the difference between this work and Independent Evaluations?

• Not independent‐ Full cooperation with both GoBF and MCC

• Ex‐Ante – To inform design of an activity that will be implemented in the future

• Contractor leads RCT design and implementation

• Work assigned by Economic Analysis Division

This Work

• Independent

• Ex‐Post – to evaluate execution of activity

• Contractor has nothing to do with the implementation of the compact

• Work assigned by Monitoring and Evaluation Division

Conventional Independent Evaluations

Interventions

The contractor will also provide all households in the experiment, including the control group, with information (e.g., pamphlets, radio advertisements) about the benefits of connecting to the electricity grid.

The contractor will design and evaluate at least three of the following interventions:

A credit intervention, ideally in which the connection cost is amortized into the electricity bill*

An intervention to reduce the administrative burden of connecting to the grid*

An intervention to reduce (subsidize) connection costs

An intervention to subsidize internal wiring costs

An intervention to increase customers' knowledge of electricity basics

Randomly supplying consumer equipment that is likely to increase electricity consumption.

Budget Guidance (RFQ Section B)

• MCC has provided plug numbers to guide budgeting for this requirement

$405,000 Direct costs of treatment injection

$777,861 Total data collection across the entire period of performance

1,000 labor hours Level of effort besides treatment injection and data collection (e.g., study coordination, data analysis, writing reports, etc.)

Deliverables Table (RFQ Section F) Deliverable Estimated Due Date Place of Performance

Contractor’s travel scope of work Before each mission No specific location

Workplan, including security plan 3 months after award No specific location

Experiment design proposal (including draft questionnaire and experimental protocol)

4 months after award No specific location

Final questionnaire and experimental protocol 6 months after award Piloting to take place in Burkina Faso

Cleaned baseline dataset and random assignments 8 months after award Data collection: On‐site in Burkina Faso Data cleaning: No specific location

Baseline survey report 8 months after award No specific location

Mid‐line dataset 14 months after award No specific location

Interim report (including impact of treatment on adoption) and presentation

14 months after award Report: No specific location Presentation: TBD

Final dataset 25 months after award No specific location

Final report (including impact of treatment on household welfare variables and business creation) and presentation

25 months after award Report: No specific location Presentation: TBD

Implementation recommendation report 25 months after award No specific location

Notable Contract Clauses Section H.15. Key Personnel (excerpt) The key personnel identified are considered to be essential to work performance. During the first ninety (90) days of performance, the Contractor shall make no substitutions of key personnel unless the substitution is necessitated by illness, death, or termination of employment.

The Contractor shall notify the Contracting Officer within 15 calendar days after the occurrence of any of these events and provide the information required below.

After the initial 90‐day period, the Contractor shall submit the information required by the paragraph below to the Contracting Officer at least 15 days prior to making any permanent substitutions or additions.

The Contractor shall provide a detailed explanation of the circumstances necessitating the proposed substitute(s); the résumé(s) of the proposed substitute(s); written certification that the proposed substitute(s) meets the key personnel qualification requirements identified below; and any additional information requested by the Contracting Officer. Proposed substitutes shall have comparable qualifications to those of the persons being replaced.

MCC 52.209‐70 Organizational Conflicts of Interest: Preclusion from Implementation Contract

Work under this contract may call for the Contractor to furnish important services in support of the design or feasibility of specific activities that may become part of a Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact. In accordance with the principles of FAR Subpart 9.5, THE CONTRACTOR MAY BE INELIGIBLE TO FURNISH, AS A PRIME OR SUBCONTRACTOR OR OTHERWISE;

THE IMPLEMENTATION SERVICES FOR ANY ACTIVITIES FOR WHICH IT PROVIDES SUBSTANTIAL

DESIGN SERVICES EXCEPT FOR SUCH SERVICES THAT MAY BE FURNISHED UNDER THIS CONTRACT. If a determination is made that the contractor is ineligible for implementation services, the MCC Managing Director of Contracts and Grants Management may authorize a waiver (in accordance with FAR 9.503) if the Director determines that preclusion of the Contractor from the implementation contract would not be in the Government's best interest.

FAR 52.217‐9 Option to Extend the Term of the Contract

(a) The Government may extend the term of this contract by written notice to the Contractor within the active period of the contract; provided that the Government gives the Contractor a preliminary written notice of its intent to extend at least 15 days before the contract expires. The preliminary notice does not commit the Government to an extension.

(b) If the Government exercises this option, the extended contract shall be considered to include this option clause.

(c) The total duration of this contract, including the exercise of any options under this clause, shall not exceed 26 months

Evaluation Criteria (RFQ Section M)

Factor 1: Technical Capability

• Sub‐factor 1: Staffing

• Sub‐factor 2: Technical Approach/Methodology

Factor 2: Past Performance

Factor 3: Price

As stated in RFQ Section M.1, technical capability and past performance, when combined, are more important than price

Questions?

Next Steps/Deadlines

• Webinar slides, Question and Answer document, and list of attendees will be posted as an amendment to the solicitation on beta.sam.gov

• Relevant questions asked during the webinar may be added to the Question and Answer document

• Quotation due date: July 6, 2020, at 11:00 am Eastern Time, emailed to guoc@mcc.gov and maxwellre@mcc.gov

• Make sure to monitor the beta.sam.gov posting (can search for “RFQ95332420Q0019”) for any additional announcements regarding the requirement