Objective. The objective of this USAID funded project was to facilitate and provide for multiple quick response task orders, which are of short duration, limited scope and require immediate action. Like regular task orders, quick response task orders have separate, stand-alone budgets but fall outside the scope of existing task order authorizations.

Both small scale and recurring technical support activities fall into this category. Examples of services include: geotechnical services, environmental assessments, technical studies, social assessments, economic studies, and bidder or contractor prequalification.

Background. A contracting mechanism was needed to cover small-scale, recurring technical support activities, and this task order was created to address that need. One of the quick-response task orders provided security, management support, and construction services for the Southern Strategy Road – Segment A Project. The project was initially funded and managed though a grant to the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS). However, when the grant ended in January 2008 and the construction project was not completed, the IRP team was requested to expedite an agreement with the construction subcontractor to continue the work under IRP. A quick-response task order was executed with the construction subcontractor in March 2008, and field operations continued on the Southern Strategy Road Project with little interruption. A follow-on task order to complete the last 35 kilometers of the Southern Strategy Road has since been developed, implemented and completed.

Status. Thirty-six quick-response task orders were implemented. All are now complete.

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