COLOMBIA RESILIENTE

USAID/Colombia seeks comments during the design phase of an anticipated Climate Change Activity. The Activity includes the following three objectives: •Objective 1: National policy and institutional capacity of Colombia to take early actions towards the achievement of its UNFCCC Paris Agreement obligations including its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC), strengthened. •Objective 2: Colombia's low carbon, climate resilient development policies implemented at the sub-national level •Objective 3: Transformational shift towards diversified, large-scale, market-based clean renewable energy facilitated. Given the critical nature of the activity, we're reaching out to you, our potential respondents, to get comments/suggestions on the attached draft portion of the statement of objectives (SOO). This is a "special notice", not a Request for Proposals, and is not to be construed as a commitment by the U.S. Government to issue any solicitation or to pay for any cost incurred in the preparation and submission of comments on this notice. Responding to this notice will not give any advantage to any firm or organization in any subsequent procurement and will not lead to an organizational conflict of interest. Responses will strictly be held confidential. Potential respondents must not expect a direct response from the U.S. Government to any of the comments/suggestions. To expedite our review and be considerate of your time, please keep comments/suggestions to no more than 1 page in length if possible. Responses to the notice must be written in English, and use 11 pt font. (Please number each page consecutively.) All responses should be submitted no later than 3 pm on April 18th (Bogota time). The full content of the notice is included as an attachment to this Special Notice.