USAID Bangladesh RFI 72038823RFI00002 Host and Impacted Community.pdf

Request for Information (RFI)

Posting Date: October 24, 2022

Questions Due Date: November 6, 2022, 8:00am (Dhaka time)

USAID’s Response on the Questions: By November 17, 2022 (Dhaka time)

Submission Due Date from Interested Partners: December 5, 2022, 8:00am (Dhaka time)

Subject: Request for Information (RFI) Number: 72038823RFI00002 for the activity title:

"Host and Impacted Community Response Activity"

Dear Partners:

This is a Request for Information (RFI) only as defined in FAR 15.201(e) to obtain information and stakeholders feedback. In addition, to get broad stakeholder and market feedback as to the soundness and robustness of the conceptual design from interested organizations with relevant experience and capabilities.

The United States Government, represented by the United States Agency for International

Development (USAID) Bangladesh Mission, is issuing this request for information (RFI) to all interested partners—especially local entities and locally-established partners—who have the ability to implement a $10 to $50 million activity in the Cox’s Bazar and Bandarban districts.

OBJECTIVE AND GOALS:

The objective of the activity is to mitigate the socioeconomic and environmental challenges in communities either hosting Rohingya refugees or impacted by the Rohingya refugee crisis. Of particular concern to USAID are issues related to: water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH);

agricultural productivity; natural resources management; workforce development; economic growth; and private sector engagement.

USAID is interested in the following questions:

1. What are the major social, economic, and environmental challenges presented by the protracted Rohingya refugee crisis?

2. What are the critical development needs facing the host communities with respect to

WASH, nutrition, economic growth, natural resource management, and agriculture?

3. Please highlight your organization’s experience in partnering with donors to implement multi-sectoral integrated development projects in Bangladesh.

RFI # 72038823RFI00002

RFI FORMAT

All eligible and interested organizations are strongly encouraged to provide comments by the closing date and time noted on page 1. Respondents shall use only size 12 Times New Roman font or similar size typeset, 8.5 by 11-inch paper, and single-spaced pages for all narrative documents, with each page numbered consecutively, and must not exceed ten (10) pages. If the respondent cares to include relevant reports, those reports may be included, preferably as embedded links. The submission must be in English. Please do not submit applications, proposals, or resumes as they will be discarded. This RFI is issued only and solely for information and planning purposes; and USAID reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for USAID's own purposes. All information provided will become the property of USAID, and will not be returned, released publicly, and treated as confidential.

RFI SUBMISSION

Submission via email is required; phone calls or hard copy delivery will not be accepted. E-mail submissions shall be sent to: Andrew Holland (aholland@usaid.gov), Jerome Robinson

(jerrobinson@usaid.gov), and Ahsan Rahman (marahman@usaid.gov) with the subject line, "Response to RFI No.: 72038823RFI00002: Host and Impacted Community Response Activity".

OTHER INFORMATION

This RFI provides prospective stakeholder/Respondents with a fair opportunity to develop and submit competitive proposals/applications to USAID for potential funding. It is not a request for

Proposal/Application/Quotation. If a solicitation is issued, it will be announced at a later date on https://grants.gov or https://sam.gov and all interested parties must respond separately to that solicitation announcement.

Please note that the release of this RFI in no way obligates USAID or constitutes an award commitment on the part of USAID nor does it commit USAID to pay for any costs incurred in the preparation of responses to the RFI.

Responses to this RFI are strictly voluntary and responding to this RFI will not give any advantage to any organization in any subsequent procurement.

FAR Clause 52.215-3 REQUEST FOR INFORMATION OR SOLICITATION FOR PLANNING

PURPOSES (OCT 1997) is attached and made part of this RFI.

Best Regards, Ananciata Muyama, Contracting/Agreement Officer, USAID/Bangladesh mailto:aholland@usaid.gov mailto:jerrobinson@usaid.gov mailto:marahman@usaid.gov https://grants.gov/ https://sam.gov/

RFI # 72038823RFI00002

52.215-3 Request for Information or Solicitation for Planning Purposes (Oct 1997)

(a) The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this solicitation or to otherwise pay for the information solicited except as an allowable cost under other contracts as provided in subsection 31.205-18, Bid and proposal costs, of the Federal Acquisition Regulation.

(b) Although "proposal" and "offeror" are used in this Request for Information, your response will be treated as information only. It shall not be used as a proposal.

(c) This solicitation is issued for the purpose of: "Requesting Comments" to the concept for a new program.

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