Working with AGChange

Senior Partners conduct or manage every project and Associates are carefully selected for their skills and abilities and brought in for specific tasks suited to their expertise. AGChange Partners and Associates often serve as team leaders to supervise projects conducted by other consulting firms.

One of AGChange's goals is to help build the capacity of underutilized human resources in developing countries. We include qualified individuals, consulting firms, NGOs, and other local talent in our teams wherever possible.

Contracting Methods

AGChange works with clients in several ways. For more information on any of the methods listed below, contact Andrew Gilboy - the Partner who manages the contracting process - directly at agilboy@compuserve.com or through the AGChange e-mail address: AGChange@compuserve.com.

• Corporate Clients, Industry Associations, and NGOs
• USAID/Washington, USAID Missions and USAID Implementing Partners
• World Bank Group (World Bank, IFC, MIGA)
• United Nations, UNDP and UN Agencies
• African Development Bank

Corporate Clients, Industry Associations, and NGOs

AGChange generally works under short-term contracts (e.g., Purchase Orders) in support of individual projects to achieve specific objectives in a limited time frame; alternatively, a longer-term retainer arrangement (for example for 12 months) can cover underlying "task orders" issued by the client for specific deliverables, such as surveys, workshops or reports.

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USAID/Washington, USAID Missions and USAID Implementing Partners

AGChange works most often under direct Purchase Orders negotiated with USAID Missions that are easy to manage, efficient and usually involve only one transaction for the client. As a small, for-profit business, AGChange can be considered on a short-list with other small firms to expedite contracting. AGChange also works frequently on Purchase Orders issued by U.S. implementing partners under USAID IQC-type acquisition mechanisms. Occasionally AGChange joins with a larger prime contractor as a resource organization or sub-contractor, as is the case with the FORECAST IQC (for institutional capacity-building and performance-improvement activities) recently awarded to the Academy for Educational Development.

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World Bank Group (World Bank, IFC, MIGA)

AGChange has concluded contracts with the World Bank Group as an vendor authorized in the World Bank's procurement system.

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United Nations, UNDP and UN Agencies

AGChange has worked with the UN Secretariat, UNDP, UNESCO, WHO and UNOPS in many African countries. Contracting can be done under AGChange's vendor number on a fixed price "lump sum" basis or based on level of effort for an agreed number of work days plus costs.

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African Development Bank

AGC has provided short and long-term consulting services to the ADB using three methods: i) contracts directly between AGC and the ADB; ii) contracts with host governments (e.g., Sierra Leone, Ghana and Nigeria) that have received a loan or grant from the ADB; and iii) contracts through intermediaries such as the German GTZ and UNESCO. AGC has provided services on a daily fee basis in some cases and on a lump sum fixed price basis in others depending upon the type and duration of services required and the contracting preferences and requirements of the client.

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