Commercial Recruiting Services in Support of SAGCOT Catalytic Trust Fund

The Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) is an international public-private partnership launched at the World Economic Forum on Africa in May 2010 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. As part of the development support to SAGCOT, USAID is providing technical support to its Catalytic Trust Fund (CTF) as it moves forward to become a cohesive working unit that provides financial resources and guidance for the international public-private partnership. The purpose of this request for proposals is to provide commercial recruiting services to the CTF. Those services include two activities: 1. To provide international recruiting services that will help the CTF identify, vet and present a slate of candidates to the current Board of Trustees to approve and seat (three trustees and one board chairman); and, 2. To provide international recruiting services to the CTF that will help identify, vet and present a slate of candidate organizations that can perform professional Fund Management for the CTF. Depending on responses to this request for proposals, USAID/Tanzania may issue up to three contracts to perform these required services. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for a Commercial Services fixed price contract prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6 as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation. Proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. This solicitation is issued as a Request for Proposals. Submit written proposals (technical proposal, budget and budget notes) referencing USAID/Tanzania AID-SOL-621-13-000002_REVISED. See attached Solicitation/Contract Order for Commercial Services (SF-1449) for further information.