BEAM
Business Environments for Agile Markets (BEAM) offers USAID missions and their local partners a broad range of services in economic growth programming, such as needs assessments, training, monitoring and evalution, identifying public-private partnerships and rapid-response support.
Paul Fekete Contracting Officer’s Representative EGAT/EG/TI, USAID Washington, DC 20005 pfekete@usaid.gov +1(202)712-1163 | Erin Endean Chief of Party CARANA Corporation Arlington, VA 22203 eendean@carana.com +1(703)778-3211 |
Specialties include:
- Trade capacity building
- Customs reform
- Value chain optimization
- Export diversification and competitiveness
- Private-sector approaches to health, environment and food security challenges
- Business-enabling environment
- Transport and logistics
- Services trade and investment
- Public-private partnerships
Managed by CARANA Corporation and its consortium partners, BEAM opens access to a wealth of economic growth expertise and uses a variety of ready-made and custom-built analytic tools to help missions achieve their goals, including BIZCLIR, TCBaseline and CARANA's own Transport and Logistics Cost Assessment Too
As a time-and-materials tax order with fixed daily rates under the GBTI II IQC, BEAM can quickly deploy experts for short-term assignments--it requires no further competition. It has core funding and can also share programming costs with missions.