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Acquisition and Assistance Activities

USAID has awarded sixteen contracts and six grants for reconstruction work in war-torn Iraq. Seven draft procurement actions have been announced but not yet awarded.

Each of the awards may require subcontract work or the hiring of additional employees. USAID prime contractors select their own subcontractors or employees. For information concerning employment or subcontracting opportunities, you should contact the prime contractor directly. To see a forecast of upcoming solicitations, please see the Iraq Business Forecast. For more information about doing business in Iraq, please view our resource page on commercial opportunities in Iraq and the list of USAID/Iraq Acquisition and Assistance Notices. For information about positions available at the USAID Mission in Iraq, please see the Employment Opportunities page.

REQUESTS FOR PROPOSALS/APPLICATIONS

Strategic City Stabilization Initiative (SCSI)
[ RFA ]

The United States Agency for International Development is seeking applications for an Assistance Agreement from qualified sources to design and implement a social and economic stabilization program impacting ten Strategic Cities, identified by the United States Government as critical to the defeat of the Insurgency in Iraq. The number of Strategic Cities may expand or contract over time. USAID plans to provide approximately $1,020,000,000 over two years to meet the objectives of the Program. An additional option year may be considered amounting to $300 million at the discretion of USAID. Funds are not yet available for this program.

Iraq Credit and Grant Facility (ICGF)
[ RFA ]

• USAID envisions a program that results in an independent, sustainable organization providing loan capital to the domestic market in Iraq. This could be in the form of an independent or quasi-governmental organization. The grantee shall set up an organizational structure to manage and operate the Facility, and establish a governing board. Bidders should plan for an exit strategy and a complete turn-over of the institution to Iraqi control after the conclusion of the award period.
• The grantee will recruit and train the Facility’s management and staff and provide for their continued oversight and training during the two year period of the grant, eventually handing complete control of the Facility to its management and staff. The grantee shall develop provisions that ensure conflict of interest issues are strictly addressed for fund management, staff, and board members.

Program to Support an Iraqi National Government, Iraqi Transitional Government and Constitutional Development
[ RFA ]

• The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is conducting a full and open competition for the services of a qualified U.S. grantee (Cooperative Agreement) to enable the Iraqi interim and transitional government to operate effectively and efficiently, in a representative, transparent, and accountable manner, and to build the constitutional foundation for a democratic nation. USAID seeks applications that offer expert, effective, and contextually appropriate assistance to the national level governance structures. This assistance may include the provision of technical assistance, training, equipment and commodities, and information on standard operating rules and procedures and comparative government practices.

Iraqi Ministry of Health (MOH) Institutional Capacity Building Program (MoHCBP)
[ SOLICITATION NOTICE ]

• Announced on January 22, 2004
• The objective of this Contract is to build the institutional capacity of the Ministry of Health in support of the MOH's goal to shift from a centrally controlled curative care model of health services to a more decentralized primary health care, with emphasis on maternal and child health.

DRAFT -- Iraq Phase II Monitoring & Evaluation Services
[ DRAFT SOW ]

• Announced on December 24, 2003
• The objective of this activity is to provide data collection, performance monitoring and evaluation of USAID/Iraq's technical assistance portfolio. The Monitoring and Evaluating Program Performance Phase 2 (MEPP2) project will provide regular performance monitoring and periodic performance evaluations of a broad and complex range of activities.

IRAQ Phase II Reconstruction: Program Advisors and Oversight
[ SOLICITATION NOTICE ]

• Announced on December 16, 2003
• USAID requires the services of a Disaster Assistance Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Contractor to provide technical and other specialists to assist USAID to monitor and manage reconstruction and rehabilitation activities in Iraq.

Awarded Contracts and Grants

SO 1 - Infrastructure Reconstruction

Objective - working in close cooperation with the Iraq interim government to improve the lives of Iraqis, USAID is devoting substantial resources throughout the country to restore critical infrastructure to rebuild and rehabilitate the vital components of Iraq's infrastructure.

SO 2 - Education, Health and Social Services

Objective - to ensure basic health care needs of population are met; improve access to and quality of education.

Higher Education and Development (HEAD)

These cooperating agreements support the establishment of partnerships between U.S. and Iraqi colleges and universities to invigorate and modernize Iraq's institutions of higher education. This program will facilitate the dispersal of development resources and technical expertise to Iraq's universities and technical colleges, and engage Iraqi higher education administrators, faculty and students in the revitalization of Iraq's higher education system.

SO 3 - Economy, Finance, Agriculture and Rural Economy

Objective - to rejuvenate the Iraqi economy and rebuild Iraq's agricultural sector.

SO 4 - Improved Efficiency and Accountability of Local Governance

Objectives

1. Enhance local government administrations and interim representative bodies; promoting community development in cooperation with NGO community.

2. Enable the Iraqi interim and transitional government to operate effectively and efficiently, in a representative, transparent, and accountable manner, and to build the constitutional foundation for a democratic nation. Provide assistance to the national level governance structures. This assistance includes the provision of technical assistance, training, equipment and commodities, and information on standard operating rules and procedures and comparative government practices.

3. Provide electoral, technical assistance to the independent electoral commission. Provide support for domestic oversight and voter education activities for Iraqi electoral process.

Community Action Program (CAP)

This program provides support for Iraqi communities to identify and address their most pressing and stabilizing needs, and bring together members of different ethnic and religious groups at the same table as members of a single community.

The goal of this program is to develop open, transparent and inclusive decision making at the community level and provide technical, financial and administrative support for democratic decisions to improve community lives. Its purpose also is to improve the quality and enable the Iraqi citizens to begin taking charge of their own lives.

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