Women's Economic Empowerment

This solicitation requests specialized contractor services to support women's economic empowerment activities in Millennium Challenge Corporation compact and threshold countries. The contractor will assist with due diligence, planning, and oversight of initiatives focused on three pillars: helping women prosper in the workforce through skills training and employment support; enabling women's success as entrepreneurs via access to assets, capital and markets; and removing barriers limiting women in the economy. Services may span multiple years of compact development and implementation. The fixed-price, time-and-materials contract allows for base and option years of performance with estimated levels of effort and labor categories involving specialists in relevant areas such as women's entrepreneurship and labor markets. Evaluation will be conducted using the Contractor Performance Assessment Rating System.

The solicitation does not use any set-aside designations. Services may include program design, assessments, studies, procurement and contract support across compact development and implementation in Indonesia, Kosovo, Lesotho, Tunisia, and other countries as needed, with an estimated level of effort and labor categories such as women's entrepreneurship experts, labor market specialists and project managers. The base period of performance is August 2020 through August 2021 with four optional yearly periods. Other direct costs are also estimated by country and year.