Private Financing Advisory Network-Asia (PFAN-Asia) Program, USAID/RDMA, Thailand

The PFAN-Asia program is intended to assist Asian businesses, governments, and others to mobilize and scale up investments in clean energy through increased access to financing. The primary goal of the PFAN-Asia program is to increase investment in clean energy in Asia's developing countries as a key part of comprehensive efforts to promote low carbon economic development. The ultimate goal is to avoid and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as a result of such increased investment over the near and long term. As set forth in the RFP, the key objectives over the five year program period include: - Strengthen the capacity of businesses to develop high-quality projects and proposals, and of financial institutions to evaluate clean energy investment proposals; - Match selected projects with sources of financing; and - Establish a permanent, self-sustaining regional platform which can effectively share knowledge and facilitate access to climate financing over the long term. As set forth in the RFP, the expected key results are the following: - At least $1 billion in funds directly or indirectly mobilized for clean energy investments, through actions of the Contractor itself and actions of the - PFAN-Asia platform which the Contractor establishes; and - Avoided or reduced greenhouse gas emissions amounting to at least 40 million metric tons of CO2e over an assumed average 20-year project life cycle. Key co-benefits of the program include: promoting economic development and local livelihoods; increasing energy security; reducing local air pollution and improving human health; expanding opportunities for U.S. firms to access Asian clean energy carbon markets; and improving corporate social responsibility (CSR) of private sector partners. The contract is a cost plus fixed fee, completion type. This contract type was determined to be the appropriate type because uncertainties involved in contract performance for the anticipated five-year period of performance do not permit costs to be estimated with a high degree of certainty or accuracy to use a fixed-price contract.