Local Partner and Sub-Partner Outreach – Request for Information

Notice Type:

Request for Information (RFI)/Expression of Interest to
Partner
and Sub-Partner with USAID/Mexico

Subject:

USAID/Mexico-RFI 2023-003

Title:

Local Partner and Sub-Partner Outreach –
Request for Information

Issuance Date:
Question Due Date:
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Questions

Preguntas y Respuestas

RFI Response Due
Date (Closing Date):
Overview
The United States Government, represented by the U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID) Mexico, is seeking to increase understanding of the
organizational landscape throughout the country to enhance USAID’s
development approach and understand local organizations’ priority topic areas
and capacities.
USAID is issuing this Request for Information (RFI) to solicit information and
potential interest from organizations to diversify USAID’s partner and sub-partner
base. The goal of the RFI is to 1) better understand the organizational landscape
in Mexico; 2) diversify USAID/Mexico’s partner and sub-partner base by creating
avenues for new and underutilized partners and sub-partners to work with USAID;

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and 3) brainstorm methods to support partners and sub-partners to become selfreliant and capable of achieving their development goals.
Response Requested
USAID/Mexico requests your participation IF:
1. You are NOT currently working directly with USAID/Mexico;
2. You are a Mexican firm, university, community group, non-profit
organization, private sector company or other local Mexican entity
interested in partnering with USAID; AND
3. Your entity focuses on one or more of the following subject areas:
a. Natural Environment -Medio Ambiente
i. Climate finance - Financiamiento Climático
ii. Biodiversity - Biodiversidad
iii. Sustainable Natural resources management - Manejo
Sustentable de Recursos Naturales
iv. Energy efficiency - Eficiencia Energética
v. Clean energy - Energia Limpia
vi. Greenhouse gas emissions reductions - Reducción de
emisiones de Gases de Efecto Invernadero
vii. Sustainable landscapes/Nature-based solutions - Paisajes
sostenibles / Soluciones basadas en la Naturaleza
viii. Environmentally sustainable economic growth - Crecimiento
Económico Sostenible Rural
b. Crime and Violence Prevention - Prevención Del Delito y la
Violencia
i. Reinsertion and tertiary prevention- Reinserción y prevención
terciaria
ii. Civic justice, mediation, and culture of lawfulness - Justicia
cívica, mediación y cultura de la legalidad
iii. Crime reduction and deterrence - Reduccion del crimen y
disuasion
iv. Community policing - Policía comunitaria
v. Substance abuse - Abuso de sustancias
vi. Alternative and restorative justice - Justicia alternativa y
restaurativa

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c. Transparency and anti-corruption - Transparencia y anticorrupción
i. Business integrity (compliance, internal controls, code of
ethics and conduct, whistleblowing) - Integridad empresarial
(cumplimiento de regulaciones, controles internos, código de
ética y conducta, denuncia de irregularidades)
ii. Audits- Auditorías
iii. Public procurement - Contrataciónes públicas
iv. Regulatory improvement - Mejora regulatoria
v. Open government - Gobierno abierto
vi. Transparency and Accountability - Transparencia y Rendición
de cuentas
d. Human Rights- Derechos Humanos
i. Protection of journalists and human rights defenders Protección de periodistas y defensores de derechos humanos
ii. Forced disappearances - Desapariciones forzadas
iii. Torture - Tortura
iv. Femicides and gender-based violence - Feminicidios y
violencia de género
e. Rule of Law - Estado de Derecho
i. Access to justice - Acceso a la justicia
ii. Cross-government coordination - Coordinación
intergubernamental
iii. Evaluation and oversight - Evaluación y supervisión
f. Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL)
i. Training on MEL - Capacitación en Monitoreo, Evaluación y
Aprendizaje
ii. Facilitation for adaptation and learning - Facilitación de
procesos de adaptación y aprendizaje
iii. Qualitative and quantitative evaluations - Evaluaciones
cualitativas y cuantitativas
iv. Performance monitoring - Monitoreo del Desempeño
g. CommunicationCom
i. Social media engagement - Participación en redes sociales
ii. Event planning and project launch - Planificación de eventos y
lanzamiento de proyectos
iii. Current links with media platforms - Enlaces con plataformas
de medios

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iv. Mexican cultural knowledge and influence - Conocimiento e
influencia cultural de México
h. Cross Cutting Areas - Civil Society Strengthening Actividades
Transversales - Fortalecimiento de Sociedad Civil
Network Strengthening - Fortalecimiento de redes
Systemic Change - Cambio Sistemico
Adaptive Management - Gestión adaptativa;
Fundraising and Mobilization of resources - Movilizacion de recursos
Planning - Planeacion
i. Organizational (not individual) consulting in any of the above areas Consultoría organizacional (no individual) en cualquiera de los
rubros antes mencionados.
Please review Attachment A for information requested. Responses may be
submitted in English or Spanish.
How to Submit a Response
Organizations may submit the information requested in this form. Please note
that organizations responding to this RFI will not receive individual feedback or
suggestions regarding their submission.
Please do not enter any unsolicited personally identifying (PII) information for
yourself or others in your responses. The results may be shared with USAID
partner organizations. Participation in this RFI is voluntary.
Questions
Questions regarding this notice can be directed to [email protected] by the
due date, mentioned above. USAID will answer the questions publicly in this
spreadsheet. Please note, all individual questions may not be directly answered,
and similar questions may be combined or adjusted.
If necessary, an additional round of questions and answers with a second due
date may be added to the RFI.

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Please note that this RFI is not a commitment by USAID to issue a solicitation,
award or grant, or pay for costs incurred by organizations for any information
submitted as a result of this request. USAID/Mexico may use the information
provided against this RFI for further sharing with USAID current and potential
contractors, recipients, diaspora, and private sector entities. USAID may include
this information as part of future solicitations or informing the prospective
offerors of the type of local entities available in the market. USAID/Mexico, its
current contractors and potential offerors may approach the Point of Contact
(POC) of your organizations for future partnership opportunities.

Responding to this RFI does not give any advantage to any firm or organization in
any subsequent competition. This RFI does NOT restrict the USAID’s acquisition
approach on future solicitations. No phone calls related to this RFI will be
accepted. All correspondence shall be via email. USAID shall not be liable for or
suffer any consequential damages for any proprietary information not properly
identified. Proprietary information or trade secrets should be clearly identified. All
information received in response to this RFI that is marked PROPRIETARY will be
handled accordingly, and proprietary information will be safeguarded in
accordance with the applicable USAID regulations. USAID reserves the right to
respond to any, all, or none of the comments and questions submitted.
Thank you for your interest.
A courtesy Spanish translation is attached, but in the event of any discrepancy
between the two documents, this English version controls.
Sincerely,

Andrea Capellán
Supervisory Contracting and Agreement Officer

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FAR 52.215-3 REQUEST FOR INFORMATION OR SOLICITATION FOR PLANNING
PURPOSES (OCT 1997)

(a) The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this
solicitation or to otherwise pay for the information solicited except as an
allowable cost under other Disclaimers contracts as provided in subsection 31.20518, Bid and proposal costs, of the Federal Acquisition Regulation.
(b) Although “proposal” and “offeror” are used in this Request for Information,
your response will be treated as information only. It shall not be used as a
proposal.
(c) This solicitation is issued for the purpose of identifying and better
understanding the wide range of capabilities of Mexican organizations to
implement development projects of carrying sizes and types. USAID/Mexico also
desires to gather information on the number and type of local partners and subpartners operating in different geographic locations of Mexico to consider eligible
organizations for future solicitations/information sharing.
(End of provision)

Annex A

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Request for Information: RFI 2023-003 (google.com)
Additional optional questions:
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Describe the overall management capability and leadership structure of
your organization. Add any fact sheets if available.
Identify any needs your organization has for organizational capacity
strengthening (management, strategic planning, etc.) support.
What are some of the specific opportunities and challenges in the area in
which you work?
Is there anything else you would like to share with USAID?