Agency for International Development February 2020 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is issuing a final rule amending the Agency for International Development Acquisition Regulation (AIDAR) to streamline the procedures for issuing contracting officer and agreement officer warrants to U.S. Personal Services Contractors (US PSCs) and Cooperating Country National Personal Services Contractors (CCN PSCs).

As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, USAID/CDI requests comments on a proposed generic collection of information for USAID-sponsored open innovation competitions prizes, challenges, and hackathons. USAID/CDI will consider all comments received in response to this notice before requesting approval of this generic collection of information from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The information collected includes: Organizational contact information, organization size disaggregated by gender, point of contact, the name of the project, stage and amount of funding requested, partner organizations and management teams, sectors the innovation addresses, country(ies) project is situated, presence/absence of permanent offices in that country, project duration, other sources of funding past and present including USAID, method and source of referral to the challenge/prize/hack-a-thon, and detailed information about the innovation including expected impact.