Opportunity Information: Apply for USAID UKRAINE SME RFI 2023
USAID/Ukraine issued a Request for Information (RFI) titled "Private Sector Development in Ukraine" to gather ideas and market input that could shape future USAID programming. This notice is not a grant competition or procurement solicitation; it is strictly an information-gathering step under FAR 52.215-3. USAID makes clear that responding will not provide any competitive advantage in a later solicitation, the U.S. Government is not committing to issue an award, and it will not reimburse any costs associated with preparing a response. Responses will be used internally and treated as confidential, and USAID may contact respondents only if it needs clarifications.
The RFI is identified as USAID-UKRAINE-SME-RFI-2023, issued on December 11, 2023, with responses due by January 11, 2024 at 1500 Ukraine local time. Submissions were to be emailed electronically to Ms. Tetiana Shevchenko at tshevchenko@usaid.gov using the subject line "USAID/Ukraine RFI Private Sector Development." USAID accepted responses in either English or Ukrainian. Eligibility is effectively open (unrestricted) to all qualified firms, but the notice strongly encourages participation from local Ukrainian organizations and firms as well as U.S. small businesses, signaling that USAID is particularly interested in solutions grounded in local capacity and implementation realities.
Programmatically, USAID frames its private sector development objective around three core outcomes for Ukrainian small and medium enterprises (SMEs): increased exports, job creation, and increased sales. USAID notes that its private sector programming typically pursues these outcomes through three broad intervention types: (1) co-investment grants to firms and financial institutions, (2) firm-level technical assistance, and (3) reforms that improve the business enabling environment. The central purpose of the RFI is to ask the market what else should be added to that toolkit given wartime constraints and the likely conditions of Ukraine in the post-war period. Put plainly, USAID is asking partners to identify approaches that it is not currently using (or not using enough) that could meaningfully improve export competitiveness, employment, and revenue growth for SMEs despite disruption, risk, infrastructure damage, displacement, and the financing and logistics challenges created by the war.
The RFI contains one main question for partner feedback: beyond co-investment grants, technical assistance, and policy/enabling environment reforms, what other approaches could be effective for USAID to achieve its private sector development outcomes in the current situation and in the post-war economy, and what is USAID not doing that it should or could be doing. USAID emphasizes that it is especially interested in approaches that actively engage local Ukrainian for-profit and non-profit organizations, which suggests an interest in models that can be delivered through Ukrainian institutions, intermediaries, business associations, accelerators, chambers of commerce, NGOs, and other local ecosystem actors rather than relying primarily on external implementers.
The submission format is intentionally light and constrained. Responses were limited to one page, single-spaced, using 12-point font and 1-inch margins, with an optional cover page allowed but not required. That format signals USAID is looking for clear, actionable concepts rather than long proposals: concise descriptions of approaches, why they would work in Ukraine now and later, and how local Ukrainian organizations could be part of delivery. The posting metadata also reflects that this is categorized as "Other" as a funding instrument type and shows no award ceiling and no expected awards, reinforcing that this is not itself a funded opportunity but a way to inform possible future activities under CFDA 98.001.Apply for USAID UKRAINE SME RFI 2023
- The Ukraine USAID-Kiev in the other sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "USAID/Ukraine - Request for Information (RFI): Private Sector Development in Ukraine" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 98.001.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2023-12-11.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-01-11. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted.
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