Acquisition Support Services

The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is soliciting to award a single indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) personal services contract in support of the Contracts & Grants Management Division (CGM) for Acquisition Support Services. The Government contemplates award of a Time & Materials(T&M) contract resulting from this solicitation. The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is a U.S. Government corporation whose mission is to provide assistance that will support economic growth and poverty reduction in carefully selected countries that demonstrate a commitment to just and democratic governance, economic freedom, and investments in their citizenry. For more information on the MCC, please visit www.mcc.gov. On January 23, 2003, the United States established the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), an innovative foreign assistance program designed to reduce poverty by promoting sustainable economic growth. MCC, a U.S. government corporation, is based on the principle that aid is most effective in countries that promote good governance, economic freedom, and investments in people. MCC's overriding objectives are to promote economic growth and a significant reduction in poverty in our partner countries. MCC does not take it for granted that programs that stimulate growth will invariably reduce poverty. MCC looks at the likely distributive effects of projects and, to the extent that data are available to perform such an analysis, identifies the beneficiaries and estimates the impact on poverty reduction. Ultimately, MCC seeks significant and measurable increases in incomes of large numbers of poor people and significant reductions in poverty. MCC analyzes the likely impact on economic growth of its programs by analyzing whether they are consistent with international and country evidence on drivers of economic growth and by use of economic rate of return (ERR) analysis. The essence of such an analysis is a straightforward comparison of costs and benefits, where the costs are the MCA grants, other front-end project development costs, and associated project life cycle operating and maintenance costs, and the benefits are increases in incomes in recipient countries. The MCC Department of Administration and Finance (A&F), Contracts & Grants Management (CGM) Division, provides acquisition support for the MCC operations. The MCC is required to follow the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) when processing contract actions. The majority of contracts awarded are for professional services, including consultants with expertise in such fields as agriculture, finance, procurement, U.S. law and/or the laws of MCC compact recipient countries, and architect & engineering services. Many contracts are issued for services to be performed outside the United States. Since the MCC has authority to contract for personal services, a large number of them are procured through personal services contracts. Additional information on the MCC can be found on MCC's website, www.mcc.gov. For full details of the solicitation see attached MCC-17-RFP-0057.