USAID Indonesia - Higher Education Partnership Initiative (HEPI) | 72049721RFI00002

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USAID Indonesia - Higher Education Partnership Initiative (HEPI) is a USAID/Jakarta information-gathering opportunity intended to shape a future activity focused on higher education collaboration between the United States and Indonesia. It is issued as a Request for Information (RFI), meaning USAID is not yet asking for full proposals or making an immediate award decision. Instead, the agency is collecting written input from interested parties to better understand feasible approaches, partnership models, and implementation ideas for an initiative preliminarily titled "Higher Education Partnership Initiative (HEPI)." The central aim described is to strengthen higher-education partnerships linking U.S. and Indonesian institutions, which typically can involve joint academic programs, research collaboration, curriculum and workforce-relevant training improvements, faculty and student engagement, institutional capacity building, and systems that make partnerships sustainable over time.

The opportunity is listed under Funding Opportunity Number 72049721RFI00002 and is categorized as "Other" for both opportunity category and funding instrument type, reflecting its nature as an RFI rather than a standard grant or cooperative agreement solicitation. The activity area is Education, and it is associated with CFDA (Assistance Listing) 98.001, which is commonly used for USAID foreign assistance programming. Eligibility is described as unrestricted, meaning USAID is open to receiving input from any type of entity, subject to any additional eligibility details that might appear in the full RFI document. In practice, RFIs often draw responses from universities, higher education consortia, nonprofits, research organizations, private sector entities, and implementers with experience managing international academic partnerships.

Although this is an RFI, the posting includes planning figures that signal the potential scale of a later award: an anticipated award ceiling of up to USD 6,000,000 and an expectation of one award. These figures should be read as preliminary and for market-research purposes; they do not guarantee funding at that level and may change when (and if) USAID releases a formal solicitation. The notice was created on November 6, 2020, with an original closing date of November 24, 2020, indicating a short response window typical of RFIs. Anyone seeking the full scope, specific questions USAID wants answered, formatting instructions, and submission requirements would need to consult the complete RFI document referenced in the "Related Documents" section of the posting.

• The Agency for International Development, Indonesia USAID-Jakarta in the education sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "USAID Indonesia - Higher Education Partnership Initiative (HEPI)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 98.001.
• This funding opportunity was created on Nov 06, 2020.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Nov 24, 2020. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $6,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.

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