Business Lead Generation Program - Prioritized Commodities

Update

Deadline for questions: May 2nd

Deadline for offers: May 18th

Introduction

The USAID Agriculture Program is a five-year, USAID-funded program implemented by CNFA in Georgia.  The goal of the USAID Agriculture Program is to accelerate growth of agricultural sub-sectors that demonstrate strong potential to create jobs and increase micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) revenues. In support of this agenda, the USAID Agriculture Program plans to deliver firm-level investment and tailor-made technical assistance to entrepreneurial, market-driven enterprises, production clusters and supporting associations and service/information/extension providers to foster inclusive and sustainable market systems development. 

The USAID Agriculture Program also provides competitive cost-shared grants and technical assistance to address identified gaps in targeted value chains (VCs) that will result in the improved productivity and productive capacity of MSMEs, strengthened value chain linkages, increased access to markets, and improved capacity of MSMEs, cooperatives, associations and service/information/extension providers. 

As part of these endeavors, the USAID Agriculture Program in cooperation with Enterprise Georgia and the Rural Development Agency (RDA) would like to better connect Georgian producers of prioritized commodities with qualified buyers in Germany as well as Gulf states including Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. 

The USAID Agriculture Program will consider proposals in response to this RFP from international firms with the relevant experience in lead generation and sales of the prioritized commodities outlined herein. Offerors are responsible for ensuring that their offers are received by the USAID Agriculture Program in accordance with the instructions, terms, and conditions described in this RFP. Failure to adhere with instructions described in this RFP may lead to disqualification of an offer from consideration.

Application Submission

Offer Deadline and Protocol: Offers must be received no later than 17:00, Georgia Standard Time, on May 11, 2022. Offers must be submitted by email to: bsp@apgeorgia.org. Please reference the RFP number in any response to this RFP. Offers received after the specified time and date will be considered late and will be considered only at the discretion of CNFA. The cover page of this solicitation summarizes the important dates of the solicitation process. Offerors must strictly follow the provided deadlines to be considered for award.