Strengthening Tenure and Resource Rights (STARR)

Added: Nov 18, 2011 1:43 pm  

RFP Synopsis

SUBJECT:      Request for Proposal (RFP) #SOL-OAA-00-11-000075

Strengthening Tenure and Resource Rights (STARR)

The U.S. Agency for International Development   wishes to inform you of the issuance of a Request for Proposal  (RFP) for the Strengthening Tenure and Resource Rights (STARR) Indefinite Quantity Contract (IQC).  Technical management would be provided by the Natural Resource Management (NRM) office of the Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade (EGAT).

The STARR program is anticipated to be a five-year contract, as further described in the RFP below, with an estimated shared ceiling of $700,000,000.  The Statement of Work (SOW) is designed to address resource tenure issues in support of key U.S. Government (USG) strategic objectives, including but not limited to, enhanced food security; climate change adaptation and mitigation; conflict prevention and mitigation; economic growth; biodiversity protection and natural resource management; and reduction in the spread of infectious diseases (HIV/AIDS).  This program will employ a multidisciplinary approach to address complex resource tenure challenges as identified by USAID missions, Bureaus and offices, and by other USG agencies (including but not limited to Department of State, Department of Defense, and the Millennium Challenge Corporation). The STARR IQC will be a broad, multi-faceted field support mechanism. It will provide short and long-term technical assistance that is needed to respond to the needs and opportunities available for improving security of property rights and increasing land access. STARR will advance USAID's Way Forward strategies and best practices by building knowledge, testing hypotheses and implementing innovative approaches to strengthening property rights and resource tenure as a means to advance key USG strategic foreign assistance goals.