Director, Office of Structured Finance and Insurance

COMBINES SYNOPSIS/ SOLICITATION

General Information:

Solicitation Number: 77344422Q0049

Job Title: Director, OSFI

Classification Code: R – Professional, Administrative and Management Support Services

Set-Aside: No small business set-aside will be utilized

NAICS: 541611 – Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services

PSC: R497 – Support – Professional: Personal Services Contracts

Contracting Office Address:

United States International Development Finance Corporation, (DFC), 1100 New York Ave, NW, Washington D.C., 20527

Description:

The United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) Office of Acquisition requires a Personal Services Contractor (PSC) for a full-time equivalent Director, Office of Structured Finance and Insurance.

This solicitation is only to be open to individual applicants. The PSC shall be a sole proprietor who will have an employee-employer relationship with the DFC.  The level of effort and responsibility is generally equivalent to a GS-15, Step 1 through GS-15, Step 10.

The contractor shall provide personal services as a senior officer supporting the most complex, sensitive, or precedent-setting finance projects which are located in developing countries and markets. The PSC is responsible for performing initial screenings of new loan proposals, underwriting, and due diligence tasks in the loan origination process which includes in-depth financial analysis, preparing portions of the loan papers and memoranda associated with presenting proposed loans to credit approval committees, supporting the loan negotiations and development of appropriate covenants for finance agreements, processing disbursement requests, and preparing proper documentation of the loan files associated with the transition of projects to the Monitoring group. The PSC will work for a Managing Director who is coordinating the full range of new project financings.

The contractor is responsible for supporting a Managing Director's Project Team in the loan origination process of limited recourse project finance transactions located in developing countries. The contractor independently conducts in-depth financial analyses of new loan proposals to determine a proposed project's ability to maintain debt service and fully repay a loan based on a review of the documentation provided, performs analyses utilizing available financial data including the financial statements provided by the project sponsors. They create or modifies sponsor-provided financial projections to assess logical model construction and adequacy of business case assumptions for the proposed DFC financing, and conduct sensitivity analyses to test project assumptions and key economic drivers. The contractor prepares required credit papers to be submitted for credit and management approval in accordance with Finance Policies and Procedures, and presents loan proposals to various approval committees. The contractor supports the Project Team in reviewing, developing and negotiating legal documentation in the form of terms of reference, loan agreements, contracts, term agreements and other transaction related documents. The contractor processes disbursement requests working to ensure that all conditions precedents have been met.

The Government intends to offer a firm fixed price contract to the individual whose quote conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous of the Government, price and other factors considered in accordance with the Request for Quotes (RFQ).  The anticipated base period of performance is 29 September 2022 to 28 September 2023 with one (1) one-year option period which will be exercised at the Government’s need or discretion.  The Government will issue up to one award from the solicitation.

Basis for Award: This acquisition is being conducted under FAR Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items and FAR Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures. Applicants will be evaluated using the factors identified in the RFQ attached. No hardcopies of the solicitation will be issued. Noncompliance is grounds to eliminate the proposal from consideration for award. All responsible sole proprietors may submit an application which shall be considered by the agency.

Submit all questions via e-mail to kyle.stropkay@dfc.gov. Questions or comments regarding this solicitation must be submitted in writing, cite the solicitation number, and be directed to the following Government representative and not DFC staff.  Telephonic inquiries will not be entertained due to the possibility of misunderstanding or misinterpretation.

POINT OF CONTACT (POC):

Kyle Stropkay                                                                            

Acquisitions Business Specialist                                               

kyle.stropkay@dfc.gov