IQC and Global Contracts

An Indefinite Quantity Contract (IQC) is a USAID contracting vehicle that enables USAID Missions around the world to access the services of technically and financially prequalified US consulting firms. The IQC mechanism was designed to help Missions fast-track procurements in order to respond quickly to evolving realities in the host country.

The Institute for Public-Private Partnerships, Inc. is a holder, either as a prime or a subcontractor, of the following Indefinite Quantity Contracts (IQCs) with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID):

Direct Selection of a Task Order?

Under AAPD 02-05 New Authority-Exception for Small Businesses Under IQCs, USAID contracting officers have the option to direct a Task Order to any small or small disadvantage business who holds a prime IQC contract. To learn more about this exception to the "Fair Opportunity" clause of FAR 16.505, please go to:
http://www.usaid.gov/business/business_opportunities/cib/pdf/aapd02_05.pdf

You may also contact IP3 to learn more about this process.

Support for Economic Growth and Institutional Reform- General Business, Trade and Investment IQC (SEGIR -GBTI II IQC)

Through our joint venture company, SEGURA-IP3 Partners LLC, IP3 is a prime contractor in a small business joint venture for the SEGIR GBTI II IQC, a five-year contract awarded in December 2006.

This IQC will build upon the first SEGIR GBTI IQC (managed through the Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade- EGAT) to accumulate the intellectual and technical resources necessary to address business, trade and investment constraints to economic growth in USAID-presence countries. The primary program objective for GBTI II is to devise and implement robust strategies to promote real economic growth, reduce poverty, graduate transitional countries from aid to trade, promote open competitive markets, develop the private sector, and mobilize private financing sources to supplement and eventually replace development assistance.

IP3 provides the following expertise under GBTI II:

• Development of the policy, regulatory, and institutional frameworks to attract private involvement in the public sector, including modern commercial laws, property registries, financial markets, and PPP/privatization enabling environments.
• Develop the appropriate enabling environment for small and medium enterprise development
• Provide general business management services in finance, marketing, human resources, accounting, information technology, and competitiveness
• Develop trade capacity, including WTO status development and maintenance
• Capacity building and knowledge management across all sectors

The SEGIR-GBTI II IQC has a $3,000,000,000 ceiling. SEGURA/IP3 LLC, a prime contractor for SEGIR GBTI II IQC, is one of three small business awards and is eligible for direct selection of Task Orders.

Building Recovery and Reform Through Democratic Governance (BRDG IQC)

Through our joint venture company, Millennium-IP3 Partners LLC, IP3 is a prime contractor in a small business joint venture for the BRDG IQC, a five-year contract awarded in October 2005.

The Office of Democracy and Governance of the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA/DG) of USAID is responsible for the overall IQC management. The primary program objective for BRDG is to provide state-of-the art expertise to promote democratic governance in all stages of political development and focus on the following: reinforcement of the legitimacy of state structure and policies and functions; public management; and strategic planning, policy and institutional reform. Three key USAID initiatives will be served through this IQC: promotion of democratic governance, fragile states, and the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA).

IP3 provides the following expertise under the BRDG IQC:

• Promotion and development of transparent and accountable government practices throughout all government levels
• Promotion and development of sound government policies and procedures for effective government management, financial accountability, and public-private service delivery options
• Overall strategic planning, policy and institutional reforms involving multiple stakeholders
• Capacity building and knowledge management across all sectors

The BRDG IQC has a $750,000,000 ceiling. Millennium-IP3 Partners LLC, a prime contractor for the BRDG IQC, is the sole small business awardee and is eligible for direct selection of Task Orders.

Support for Economic Growth and Institutional Reform (SEGIR II Privatization) IQC

IP3 is both a prime contractor (as a small business joint venture with SEGURA Consulting) and a subcontractor for the Privatization II IQC, a five-year contract awarded in October 2003. This IQC will build upon the first SEGIR Privatization IQC to accumulate the intellectual and technical resources necessary to better understand and overcome ownership related constraints to economic growth as experienced by developing countries in the areas of competition, market access, regulatory reform and institutions.

IP3 provides the following expertise under SEGIR/Privatization II:

• Development of the policy, regulatory, and institutional frameworks to attract private involvement in the public sector, including modern commercial laws, property registries, financial markets, and PPP enabling environments.
• Post-privatization assistance and competitive markets development including market-based accounting and financial management standards, human resources management, and information and communications technology.
• Capacity building and knowledge management in the field of public-private partnerships.
• Design, procurement, and implementation of public-private partnerships across a range of sectors.

SEGIR II has a $500,000,000 ceiling. SEGURA/IP3 Joint Venture, a prime contractor for SEGIR II, is the sole small business amongst the group of IQC holders and the only consortium eligible for direct selection of Task Orders.

Sustainable Urban Management (SUM) II

IP3 is a subcontractor to Associates in Rural Development (ARD) Inc. for the SUM II IQC. This IQC will deliver short, medium and long-term technical assistance, training and advisory services in five main functional areas: (a) Urban Services Provision and Shelter; (b) Improved Local Government Management; (c) Improved Environmental Management; (d) Disaster Mitigation, Preparedness, Response & Recovery; and (e) Urban Finance and Credit Systems. SUM II can facilitate a wide and very flexible range of activities related to multi-sectoral and integrated urban development issues and will help USAID to address urbanization, management of local and regional growth, urban environmental and health concerns, municipal and local governance and urban poverty reduction.

IP3 provides the following expertise under SUM II:

• Leadership in forging public-private partnerships to improve the provision of-and increase investment in-urban services.
• Over 250 such partnerships formed, and over 10,000 officials trained over the past decade.
• Success in helping local governments to strengthen their financial management and local economic development planning practices.
• Strengthened provision of potable water and sanitation services.
• Breadth and depth of experience in municipal credit, both in emerging markets as well as in the United States.

The total available ceiling (cumulative total of all 6 awards) within this mechanism will be $300 million. Services are obtained through negotiated Task Orders, which may be written for any time period up to the entire length of the SUM II IQC, through September, 2009. The period of performance extends three years past the end of the ordering period through September 2012.

Support for Economic Growtn and Institutional Reform: Commercial, Legal and Institutional Reform (SEGIR CLIR)

The Commercial, Legal and Institutional Reform (CLIR) IQC provides USAID with technical assistance services necessary to support broad-based, sustainable economic growth in recipient countries worldwide. The CLIR IQC seeks to build upon the work completed under the original SEGIR LIR IQC, accumulating the intellectual and technical resources necessary to better understand, and thereby overcome, legal and institutional constraints to economic growth experienced by developing countries.

IP3 provides the following expertise under the CLIR IQC:

• Development of corporate governance policies and strategies.
• Design of the legal and regulatory environment to promote economic growth including capital markets development, commercial law reform, improvement of rules governing foreign investment and contract law, and drafting privatization laws, competition policy, and public procurement policies.
• Guidance and development of rules for dispute resolution.
• Sector reform, including horizontal and vertical unbundling, and deregulation.
• Design and operationalization of regulatory agencies.

The CLIR IQC has a $600,000,000 ceiling over the five year period of performance. Task Orders may be issued by USAID Washington Contracting Officers and field Contracting Officers. All statements of work must be cleared by the IQC Cognizant Technical Officer (CTO).

Integrated Water and Coastal Resources Management (IWCRM)

IP3 is a subcontractor to Associates in Rural Development (ARD) Inc. for the Integrated Water and Coastal Resources Management (IWCRM) IQC. The IWCRM IQC supports USAID's efforts to increase and improve protection and sustainable use of natural resources by helping the agency carry out all aspects of integrated water and coastal resources management, including sustainable fisheries and aquaculture.

IP3 provides the following expertise under the IWCRM IQC:

• Design of over-arching strategies for reforming the water, sewerage and sanitation sectors, including institutional and regulatory reform, and competition policies.
• The development of systems to support the collection of data relating to the delivery of potable water, wastewater collection, and sanitary sewerage services, including programs to benchmark the performance of enterprises involved in service delivery.
• Willingness and ability to pay studies.
• Promoting public participation and stakeholder involvement in water sector reform.
• Training water sector stakeholders on issues relating to competitive utility management, public-private partnerships, and regulation.
• Development of policies governing tariff setting and user subsidies for water services.
• Design, procurement, and implementation of public-private partnerships for water services delivery.
• Development of regulatory agencies and regulations.
• Advice on appropriate methods to finance investments in water infrastructure.

The IWCRM IQC has a maximum ceiling of $2 billion over the course of the five year period of performance. Task orders issued during the five years of the IQC may extend their period of performance up to three years beyond the five year IQC period.

People, Energy and Development (PED) IQC

IP3 is a subcontractor to the Academy for Educational Development (AED) for the PED IQC. The purpose of the "People, Energy, and Development - Increasing the Ability of People to Cause Their Own Development" (PED) IQC is to facilitate more effective and efficient knowledge management in the energy sector focusing on specific areas of interest within the broader themes of governance, social development, and the environment. It will systematically capture and organize knowledge and experience gained from staff, clients, and development partners in order to make this knowledge more readily accessible and to create linkages between groups and communities working on similar topics. It will focus on (1) institutional strengthening; (2) energy policy reform; (3) environmental and related infrastructure; (4) promoting greater efficiency of energy production, distribution and use; (5) fostering the commercialization and use of renewable energy technologies and demonstrating appropriate technologies to reduce energy-related environmental degradation and mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases; and (6) stakeholders roles and participation.

IP3 provides training and capacity building services and conducts training needs assessments in the following areas under the PED IQC:

• Energy management and operations.
• Privatization, commercialization, and corporatization of energy utilities.
• Management, privatization and regulation of oil and gas operations.
• Policy, legal and regulatory reform in the energy sector.
• Methods for financing energy projects.
• Transportation infrastructure, management and policy development.

In addition, IP3 is the only PED IQC holder that offers people who successfully complete our training programs both continuing education units (CEUs) that are recognized by the International Association of Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and the opportunity to apply those CEUs towards the achievement of a post-graduate, professional certification in the fields of Competitive Utility Management, Public-Private Partnerships, and/or Regulation.

The PED IQC has a $100 million ceiling over the five-year period of performance.

Environmental Health

IP3 is a subcontractor to Camp, Dresser & McKee (CDM) International for the Environmental Health (EH) IQC. The purpose of the EH IQC is to establish world-wide mechanisms to support the Bureau for Global Health as well as other USAID Missions and Bureaus in the implementation of environmental health activities. It provides access to a broad range of expertise in interventions to reduce exposure to agents of disease and to hazards that exacerbate disease, by focusing on improvements in the physical environment and in key behaviors.

IP3 provides the following expertise under the EH IQC:

• Capacity building and training in environmental health, focusing on developing country institutions.
• The application of public-private partnerships models towards the solution of environmental health challenges.

The EH IQC has a five-year duration and a $110 million ceiling. The specific activities to be carried out under the IQC will be determined on a task order basis.