SUPPORTING UNIVERSITIES TO PARTNER ACROSS THE PACIFIC

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The purpose of this Amendment No. 4 to APS No. Indonesia 09-014 “Supporting Universities to Partner Across the Pacific” is to clarify and revise the language in No. 12 of the Q&A for APS Amendment No. 3 with regard to the eligibility of applicants under this APS. AMENDMENT NO. 2ANNUAL PROGRAM STATEMENT (APS)NO. INDONESIA 09-014 “SUPPORTING UNIVERSITIES TO PARTNER ACROSS THE PACIFIC”Issuance Date of Original APS: August 10, 2009Issuance Date of this Amendment No. 2: February 3, 2010Deadline for Receipt of Questions for ConceptPapers for Second Phase: March 4, 2010Deadline for Receipt of Questions for Concept Papers for Third Phase: June 28, 2010Closing Dates for Concept Papers: First Phase September 8, 2009 Second Phase April 30, 2010 Third Phase August 27, 2010Closing Time for Submission of Concept Papers: 4:00 PM, local Jakarta timeSubmit Concept Papers to: aps09-014@usaid.govThe purpose of this Amendment No. 2 to APS No. Indonesia 09-014 is as follows:(1) To allow Indonesian universities to submit applications as a lead institution;(2) To change the dates for second and third phases of competition in order to provide institutions of higher education with more time to prepare quality concept papers. The new closing dates are: Second Phase – April 30, 2010 and Third Phase – August 27, 2010;(3) To revise the following sections of the APS: Section I.E “Intended Partnership Characteristics; Section IIB.b. “Application Requirements – Technical Narrative”; Section IIC. “Technical Evaluation Criteria for Concept Papers”; Section III.A.1(a)(4) Management Plan; and Section IIIC. “Technical Evaluation Criteria for Full Applications”.(4) In Section III “Full Application Submission and Information”, add two new sections, as follows: Section D “Responsibility Determination” and Section E – Pre-Award Survey (Grant worthiness Assessment).For the Second and Third Phases of competition under this APS, there is no preference for the lead institution to be an Indonesian or U.S. institution of higher education, as long as all other requirements (see Section III) are met.Organizations who submitted Concept Papers in 2009 and were not selected are welcome and encouraged to revise their Concept Papers (based on the detailed advice in this announcement), and should submit a new proposal in order to be considered again.Attached is the Revised APS, incorporating the above changes.

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