USAID/Ghana - Feed the Future Ghana Market Systems and Resilience Activity

The Feed the Future Ghana Market systems and Resilience Activity (MSR) is a five year, $35.8 million cost plus fixed fee completion type activity that was awarded competitively in accordance with FAR 6.102. MSR  Activity aims to increase inclusive agriculture-led economic growth in northern Ghana through stronger and more resilient markets. Key activity outcomes will include: improved capacity of market actors, market access, quality of business services, and enabling environment to facilitate increased investment and efficient market systems. These outcomes are aligned with USAID’s Private Sector Policy and the Government of Ghana’s (GoG) Investing in Food and Jobs initiative, and will contribute to greater coherence among the GoG’s agriculture, industry, and trade initiatives. Additionally, the outcomes will support greater market access and opportunities for MSMEs by improving their abilities to expand and meet market needs, and to support the strengthening of market systems resilience capacities to protect the gains made towards commercialization and profitability.

A cost reimbursement type contract was selected because this award contains complex technical services that will involve uncertainties in implementation. As such, per FAR16.301-2, these circumstances do not allow the agency to define its requirements and pricing sufficiently enough to allow for a fixed-price type contract.

Awarded contract 72064122C00001 to ACDI/VOCA for 35858073.02 on 2022-03-24.