Yemen Economic Activity RFI.pdf

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

Subject: Request for Information Issued Date: July 2, 2024 Comments Due Date: August 5, 2024, at 12:00pm Frankfurt, Germany time Requested Information: USAID/Yemen Economic Activity

The United States Government, represented by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)/Yemen, is issuing this Request for Information (RFI) as part of market research for a potential future award. The information requested relates to a planned economic activity in Yemen.

USAID is sharing a draft statement of objectives (Attachment 1 – attached as a separate Word document) and corresponding questions to respond to (Attachment 2). Interested parties should submit a Microsoft Word document with their response to the questions to the e-mail addresses specified below. Responses must not exceed five pages. Respondents may choose to answer any or all of the questions. Please include a cover page with your organization’s general information as follows:

• Organization name

• Organization address

• Organization business classification – small, large, or local

• Organization Unique Entity Identifier (if any)

• Name, title, and telephone number of a contact person at your organization

The cover page will not count to the five-page limitation for the response.

This is a request for information and is not a Request for Proposals or Notice of Funding Opportunity. It is not to be construed as a commitment by the U.S. government to issue any solicitation or ultimately award a contract or assistance agreement on the basis of this RFI, or to pay for any information voluntarily submitted as a result of this request. USAID is not seeking technical or cost proposals at this time. Do not submit any proposal in response to this RFI. Responding to this RFI does not give any advantage to any firm or organization in any subsequent competition. Responses will be held confidential. USAID reserves the right to respond to any, all, or none of the comments and questions submitted. USAID’s responses (if any) will be issued through the www.sam.gov portal. Please continue to monitor this site for any postings.

Please submit your comments to this RFI via email to the attention of Ms. Karla Camp at kcamp@usaid.gov and copy Mr. Ketan Sood at ksood@usaid.gov with the subject: “Request for Information (RFI): USAID/Yemen Economic Activity,” no later than the date and time above.

http://www.sam.gov/ mailto:kcamp@usaid.gov mailto:ksood@usaid.gov

Thank you for your interest in the subject RFI.

Sincerely, Eric Strong USAID/Middle East Regional Platform/Regional Office of Acquisition and Assistance Acting Supervisory Contracting/Agreement Officer

ATTACHMENT 2 – QUESTIONS

USAID/Yemen is interested in responses to the following questions based on the draft Statement of Objectives in this RFI. Respondents are encouraged to review the questions and include responses to the most relevant questions in their submissions. Respondents do not need to respond to all the questions listed below.

USAID/Yemen is also interested in any other program suggestions, relevant context, existing capacities, or other information relevant to the design of this program.

1) Are you interested in applying to the RFP when released?

2) Are you a small business or minority-owned business? If so, please specify your status and certification.

3) Are you a Yemeni Local Organization interested and able to implement such an activity?

4) Are the proposed objectives and expected results in the SOO measurable and achievable within a five-year period of performance?

5) Are the theory of change and programmatic objectives and targets in the draft SOO clear and realistic? If not, how could they be improved?

6) Is the private sector engagement component realistic given resource and operational constraints? Is it feasible for a potential bidder to develop a private sector engagement approach that will achieve USAID’s stated objective by addressing:

a) barriers to entry into Yemen;

b) existing market drivers and drivers of instability;

c) existing market inefficiencies; and

d) enabling environment constraints?

7) Do you have any other comments or recommendations on the draft SOO?

No other documents or information are requested at this time. USAID/Yemen asks respondents to not send any additional information other than what is requested above and to adhere to the page limits mentioned.

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