FOA-Broad
Agency Announcement for Remote Monitoring of the Humanitarian Supply Chain;
February 1, 2021
Agency
Agency
for International Development
Description
The
United States Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Humanitarian
Assistance (USAID/BHA) is exploring innovative solutions that allow for the
tagging, tracking, locating, and monitoring of food and non-food items (NFIs)
through the international humanitarian supply chain. This Broad Agency
Announcement (BAA) seeks opportunities to co-create, co-design, co-invest, and
collaborate in the research, development, piloting, testing, and scaling of
innovative, scalable, and cost-effective remote sensing solutions for our
global supply chain. The application(s) to be implemented will enable our
organization to: Capture data and establish baseline parameters such as
temperature, humidity, moisture, tilt, and shock on humanitarian commodities as
they are shipped around the world; Improve visibility into the location,
condition, and quality of humanitarian commodities as they are shipped around
the world; Reduce waste, loss, damage, risk, and inefficiencies through access
to timely, valuable, and quantifiable data, analytical insights, dashboards,
and reporting; and Improve the operational oversight and the ability to make
information available to stakeholders, including receivers of commodities, U.S.
Government (USG) and private sector partners, and donor governments. Any awards
issued under this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) will be for Applied Research
or Development, as those terms are defined in 48 USC 35.001, as follows:
“Applied research” means the effort that: (a) normally follows basic research,
but may not be severable from the related basic research; (b) attempts to
determine and exploit the potential of scientific discoveries or improvements
in technology, materials, processes, methods, devices, or techniques; and (c)
attempts to advance the state of the art. When being used by contractors in
cost principle applications, this term does not include efforts whose principal
aim is the design, development, or testing of specific items or services to be
considered for sale; these efforts are within the definition of “development,”
given below. “Development” means the systematic use of scientific and technical
knowledge in the design, development, testing, or evaluation of a potential new
product or service (or of an improvement in an existing product or service) to
meet specific performance requirements or objectives. It includes the functions
of design engineering, prototyping, and engineering testing; it excludes
subcontracted technical effort that is for the sole purpose of developing an
additional source for an existing product. Expressions of Intertest are due by February 1, 2021 by 2:00PM
EST.
Announcement
Number:
BAA-BHA-21-000001
Closing
Date:
February
01, 2021
Link
to Full Announcement
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=330368
Contact
Information
BHA
Procurement