Common use of Leader with Associate Awards Clause in Contracts

Leader with Associate Awards. Effective Date: 12/23/2019 A Leader with Associate (LWA) Award involves the issuance of a Leader Award that covers a specified worldwide activity. The Leader Award includes language that allows a Mission or other office to make one or more separate awards, called Associate Awards, to the Leader Award recipient without using restricted eligibility. The Associate Award must be within the terms and scope of the program description of the Leader Award and support a distinct local or regional activity. Leader with Associate Awards must not be confused with Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Contracts that are used in acquisition or any of the procedures used under an IDIQ. As examples, a Leader Award cannot be made without a program description and a budget with sufficient funds to carry out the program description in the Leader Award, and Associate Awards are not made using fair opportunity procedures. a. Justification for Use of a Leader with Associate Instrument ● The specific, quantifiable, and demonstrable economies of scale or responsive timing to be achieved through use of the LWA, ● Whether any specific, identified needs in non-presence countries can best be addressed through an LWA, and ● How the LWA will achieve the Agency goal of centralizing knowledge or expertise or demonstrating global technical leadership in a specific technical area. ● Specify what specialized technical skills are required to plan and manage the activities that are not available in the field, or ● Demonstrate that an anticipated and frequent need to respond to compelling urgent programmatic requirements cannot be foreseen in terms of location, timing, or magnitude and can best be met through the use of a LWA. ● The highly technical or specialized nature of the program and the lack of field staff with the required expertise to plan or manage such activities, or ● An anticipated frequent need to respond to truly urgent programmatic requirements that cannot be foreseen in terms of location, timing, or magnitude, or ● Needs in non-presence countries