Please note that this solicitation is also intended to encourage the use of the Collaboration Agreement, a new obligating instrument for building alliances, where appropriate. USAID routinely uses grants and cooperative agreements as implementing mechanisms to resource many public-private alliances. However, a relationship between USAID and another resource partner may not be best supported by conventional assistance instruments, particularly when dealing with non-traditional partners, (e.g., a private organization offering resources at a leveraged ratio in excess of one to one, whose principal business purpose is other than foreign development assistance, and who has not routinely received federal funding under traditional grants and cooperative agreements). The Collaboration Agreement is an innovative mechanism and may be considered for use as an implementing instrument when:
• A Non-Traditional Partner will be receiving USAID funds directly;
• The proposed alliance is within the GDA precepts and the alliance program is deemed appropriate under the terms of this APS;
• There is a compelling reason for government and non-government funding resources to be pooled (co-mingled) in the alliance implementing agreement; and
• It would be necessary to make an impracticable number of changes to standard agreement provisions.