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The Office of Acquisition and Assistance (OAA), Bureau for Food Security (BFS), USAID is releasing this Draft Statement of Objectives(SOO) following the RFI No. RFI720BFS19Q00001 issued last year. We ... The Office of Acquisition and Assistance (OAA), Bureau for Food Security (BFS), USAID is releasing this Draft Statement of Objectives(SOO) following the RFI No. RFI720BFS19Q00001 issued last year. We anticipate issuing the final solicitation package in early summer 2019. USAID is seeking contractor services in the support of Feed the Future's use of private sector engagement and market systems development approaches, including but not limited to 1) partnership development services and partnership management services, 2) various market research and analytics, monitoring support services, and evaluation services, 3) research studies and data collection and analytics, and 4) training development, training delivery, and event management services. The Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP) Activity seeks to improve the effectiveness of Feed the Future, USAID, and other USG programs, leading to sustained development outcomes at scale. MSP combines the technical elements of previously planned follows on to both the Partnering for Innovation activity and the Leveraging Economic Opportunities activity. The combined technical areas include: 1) private sector partnership development and management, 2) commercializing agricultural research through private sector partnership and 3) market systems facilitation.