RFP # 72038820R00007 Amendment 3 - Feed the Future Bangladesh Agricultural Infrastructure Development Activity

The purpose of the Feed the Future Bangladesh Agricultural Infrastructure Development activity (“FtF Agricultural Infrastructure Activity” or “Activity”) is to improve agricultural infrastructure in order to increase the availability of quality and safe agricultural produce for domestic, regional and international markets that will benefit agricultural value chain actors such as smallholder farmers, agro-input dealers, processors and marketers within the Feed the Future (FTF) Zone of Influence (ZOI) and USAID/Bangladesh Zone of Resilience (ZOR).

This Activity aims to improve agricultural infrastructure within the FTF ZOI and USAID/Bangladesh Zone of Resilience (ZOR) through collaboration and coordination with the Government of Bangladesh’s (GoB’s) Local Government Engineering Department (LGED). With this effort, the Contractor will also build the capacity of LGED to better plan, tender, and implement infrastructure in a transparent and efficient manner that meets international standards through the following interventions:

• Site selection in coordination with other USAID FTF-funded activities to identify roads, market centers, collections centers, cold storage, and drainage/irrigation system improvements that best support the Activity goal;
• Design and construction of selected infrastructure improvements (construction or rehabilitation); 
• Development of effective operation and maintenance arrangements for constructed and rehabilitated infrastructure; and,
• Facilitation of public-private partnerships and private sector engagement that will ensure the sustainability of the constructed and rehabilitated infrastructure after handover to beneficiaries.

Awarded contract 72038821C00002 to Pae Government Services, Inc. for 12773934.00 on 2021-05-28.