USAID/Ghana - Feed the Future Ghana Fisheries Recovery Activity

The Feed the Future Ghana Fisheries Recovery Activity (GFRA) is a five year, $17.9 million cost plus fixed fee completion type activity that was awarded competitively in accordance with FAR 6.102. GFRA serves to mitigate the near collapse of Ghana's small pelagic fisheries sector and establish a durable basis for its ecological recovery. GFRA will be implemented across Ghana's coastal districts in fishing villages and at fish landing sites across the nation's four coastal regions for the benefit of artisanal fishers, fish processors and traders, fishing association and local community members, local and national government, and university researchers. Successful implementation of GFRA includes tangible benefits for women and youth (ages 15'35) associated with and working in the small pelagic fisheries sector to strengthen their capacity to successfully advocate for ecologically sustainable, safe, and inclusive pelagic fisheries operations and management. The Contractor must fulfill this purpose through a balanced and strategic approach that reduces fishing overcapacity and increases controlled access over Ghana's small pelagic fisheries sector to encourage ecological sustainability while enhancing socio-economic well-being and local resilience of artisanal fisherfolk and their communities. A cost reimbursement type contract was selected because this award contains complex techincal services that will involve uncertainties in implementation. As such, per FAR 16.301-2, these circumstances do not allow the agency to define its requirements and pricing sufficently enough to allow for a fixed-price type contract.