February 21, 2012
As part of the USAID Forward reform agenda, USAID is changing its business processes - seeking to contract with and provide grants to more and varied local partners.
As part of the USAID Forward reform agenda, USAID is changing its business processes - seeking to contract with and provide grants to more and varied local partners.
3P attended a presentation on February 21,
hosted by InterAction, an alliance of U.S.-based NGO organizations focused on the world’s most poor and vulnerable populations. More than fifty organizations were represented at the event. USAID’s General Counsel Lisa Gomer discussed the agency’s recent
developments in implementation and procurement reform (IPR).
Most notably, USAID’s IPR
initiative includes revisions to Regulation 22 CFR 228 Source and Nationality Policy which establishes USAID’s source and nationality procurement requirements. The new
regulation, published on January 10, 2012, is intended to both
simplify and streamline USAID’s procurements by::
- Authorizing procurements in the recipient and other developing countries along with the United States, as Congress directed in the Foreign Assistance Act, via a new default Geographic Code of 937.
- Eliminating the requirement to determine the “origin” of a commodity -- a difficult task in today’s globalized economy -- and simplifying and clarifying source and nationality requirements to restrict procurements from foreign government controlled vendors.
- Streamlining procedures, including those necessary to obtain a waiver in the event goods or services are needed from any other country or region.
Examples of how the objectives of IPR are being implemented can be
viewed here in a September 2011 USAID newsletter.
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