REQUEST FOR SUBCONTRACTOR PROPOSAL
RFP No. 2019-003

Dear Prospective Offerors:

Abt Associates Inc. (Abt) invites qualified organizations to submit a technical and cost proposal for the “USAID Feed the Future Bangladesh Nutrition Activity (BNA) Baseline Household Survey” (Scope of Work in section 3 of the attached RFP). The anticipated period of performance of this project is August 1, 2019 to October 31, 2019.

  • Proposals should be directly responsive to all items, terms, conditions, specifications, and other documents referred to in this RFP.
  • Questions should be submitted no later than June 26, 2019, 5:00 PM (BST)
  • Any information given to one prospective offeror concerning this solicitation will be furnished to all such offerors as an amendment of the solicitation
  • Interested parties should submit their final proposals no later than July 7, 2019 (BST)

Responding offerors are advised that this solicitation does not in any way obligate Abt to make a contract award or compensate the responding firms for any costs associated with the preparation and submission of their proposals. Additionally, Abt may award a subcontract without conducting negotiations; therefore, all proposals should be submitted initially using your most favorable terms. Abt reserves the right to award any resultant subcontract to other
than the offeror submitting the lowest price proposal based on technical, quality, schedule priority or client request.

For the purposes of cost comparison, offerors should propose costs for the baseline survey. In addition, offerors should propose illustrative costs for midline and endline surveys. Please assume that sample parameters (number of households,regions) will be the same and state assumptions for escalating costs for the future surveys. Initial funding will be awarded for the baseline survey only; future efforts will be dependent on satisfactory performance on the baseline effort.

All communications regarding this RFP should be addressed via email to the following Abt Associates representatives:

Kindly advise Abt Associates, Inc., within two (2) business days of receipt of this RFP of your intentions to respond.

Cordially,
Abt Associates BNA team

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