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Wordie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:27 AM
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US offering $1,020,000,000 in grant for Iraq Cities Stabilization Plan
http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/AID/OM/BAG/RFA&%23032%3B267-06-001/Grant.html



FGO for Applicants

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IRAQ: Strategic City Stabilization Initiative (SCSI)


General Information

Document Type: Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number: RFA 267-06-001
Posted Date: Nov 30, 2005
Original Due Date for Applications: Jan 31, 2006
The Request for Application will be issued after December 16, 2005
Current Due Date for Applications: Jan 31, 2006
The Request for Application will be issued after December 16, 2005
Archive Date: Mar 02, 2006
Funding Instrument Type: Cooperative Agreement
Category of Funding Activity: Regional Development
Expected Number of Awards: Not Available.
Estimated Total Program Funding: $1,020,000,000.00
Award Ceiling: $1,320,000,000.00
Award Floor: $1,020,000,000.00
CFDA Number: 98.001 -- USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: No

Eligible Applicants

Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"

Agency Name

Agency for International Development, Overseas Missions, Iraq (CPA) USAID-Baghdad

Description

The United States Agency for International Development is seeking applications for an Assistance Agreement from qualified sources to design and implement a social and economic stabilization program impacting ten Strategic Cities, identified by the United States Government as critical to the defeat of the Insurgency in Iraq. The number of Strategic Cities may expand or contract over time. USAID plans to provide approximately $1,020,000,000 over two years to meet the objectives of the Program. An additional option year may be considered amounting to $300 million at the discretion of USAID. Funds are not yet available for this program.

Link to Full Announcement

IRAQ: Strategic City Stabilization Initiative (SCSI)

If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:

Feurtado, Yvette, Contracting Officer, Phone 962-6-590-6477, Fax 962-6-590-6333, Email yfeurtado@usaid.gov Feurtado, Yvette


Just heard about this on Countdown and thought DUers would find it interesting. Ideas, anyone? The RFA won't be issued for another week or so.
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WindRavenX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:29 AM
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1. hey, how about some money for OUR SCHOOLS AND OUR CITIES
Unfuckingbelievable.
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GrumpyGreg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:42 AM
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4. Jesus !
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WindRavenX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:08 AM
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13. does jesus offer health care?
coz if so, that'd be super.
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 11:29 PM
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30. WTF? Shouldn't Pinhead** figure this out for himself? He started this
thing! "Mission Accomplished" my a$$! What bushit!
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HeeBGBz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 11:29 PM
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31. Yeah, Biloxi, Gulfport, Long Beach, Pass Christian
Waveland, Bay St Louis, New Orleans

They could use that billion so maybe people wouldn't have to spend the holiday season in a tent.

Appalling.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:31 AM
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2. If they handle it like the 9/11 money...
no reason we can't apply for some of that money for New York, right?
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pbca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:39 AM
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3. They should be offering alot more than that
God knows how many tens of billions it will take to fix Iraq, and it's entirely the US's bill (ok the UK and Australia can pony up a bit too) but the "Coalition of the Willing" now needs to pay it's bills.
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Wordie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:58 AM
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9. The Pier One rule: we broke it.....the problem is, can it be fixed? nt
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pbca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:05 AM
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11. No effort should be spared in trying
The alternative is creating a new Afghanistan and starting the whole process (Everything that's happened since 9/11) all over again.
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Wordie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:12 AM
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15. I just don't know. It appears to me we will be throwing good money after
bad at this point. I waver back and forth because it just seems we have a choice between bad and worse at this point. We shouldn't have gone in there in the first place.
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ticapnews Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 02:02 AM
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21. Ding!
We have a winner!

The war isn't meant to be won, it's meant to be continuous.
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shraby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:43 AM
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5. One of the Republican lackeys will
probably get it then it will go into the re-election coffers.
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AuntPatsy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:45 AM
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6. Proof positive people they HAD NO PLAN
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Erika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:47 AM
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7. Paid for by our needy and middle class
I can hear the GOP out there yelling now against helping any American community for roads, schools, or hospitals.
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soothsayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:58 AM
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8. Let's apply!
I could use that money.
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Wordie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:02 AM
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10. It's an open RFP! Go for it! Maybe we should form a group, here at DU, to
try to come up with ideas. I could use some of that, too. LOL
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Historic NY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 02:00 AM
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20. Not a bad idea........
then use the money for 06 & 08 elections like Republicans have been doing. (Wilkes Co. & Duke Cunnningham, etc.)
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soothsayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 11:21 PM
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28. Brilliant!
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pinto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:06 AM
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12. Though unfunded as yet, this grant sounds like a part of an "enclave" plan
Edited on Tue Dec-06-05 01:11 AM by pinto
There was a thread a few days ago about the grant announcement. Seemed to me then as a "Green Zone Franchise" think-tank proposal.

Fortified enclaves in strategic cities as recipients of another US funding stream of sub-contracts. Devil's always in the details, which in this case (US AID administered grants) is who gets the money, where does it go, what's it for and who does the "oversight"...?

Given the record of subcontractors for graft, theft and thuggery,
I'll reiterate my comment from the earlier thread - sure hope the House and Senate take a good look at this funding...
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Wordie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:18 AM
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18. You seem to be familiar with these things.
Could you explain some of that? I don't know what a "enclave" plan is, or what you meant by "Green Zone Franchise."

Is there, as far as you know, a good way to ensure that the money isn't lost to corruption?

(I must have missed that other thread. Sorry for the repetition.)
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pinto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 02:31 AM
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22. Hi. The "Green Zone Franchise" is my blurb. What I was referring to is
Edited on Tue Dec-06-05 02:43 AM by pinto
the Green Zone in Baghdad. As you know, US administrative personnel basically operate within the zone's military cordon, a safer "enclave" - all else is in reality a volatile war zone.

The Green Zone is a bubble of "success" and American influence in an otherwise chaotic landscape of insurgents fighting the American occupation, warring familial and religious factions, your basic thugs and private contractor "Rambos".

The earlier thread I mentioned referred to a British Colonial response to its Malay uprising and discussion about the feasibility among US officials on the viability of replicating that plan in the Iraq situation.

(The Brits apparently established a checkerboard of enclaves in cities throughout Malay and built up the infrastructure in those areas as an incentive to lure people to the cities and dampen the insurgency.)

I made the correlation between the USAID grants - which are pretty specific about targeting funds to cities of "strategic interest" - and the earlier discussion of enclaves.

Follow the money seems a pertinent theme in our Iraq debacle.

(Oh, on edit, re: corruption. The best I can think of is push Congress to perform it's oversight responsibility, and the press as well....)
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Wordie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 03:44 AM
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24. That's really interesting.
So, by establishing zones of relative safety, to which people would be drawn from the chaos of the war zones, the fabric of the society could theoretically be re-woven? Did it work for the British? Were people willing to move to the cities and was the Malay insurgency overcome? (Forgive me, I'm a long way from a history class, and simply don't remember anything about this.)

I'm afraid, just listening to the stories today about how our own 9/11 funds were spent rather stupidly (to provide air conditioning in fire trucks in one city, for instance, a crucial homeland security issue), there appear to be some questions about the ability of Congress to provide oversight. I guess it'll be up to the press... :(

One other bad note I picked up someplace recently is an Iraqi official was saying that the military, where it exists, is more and more frequently being used to carry out personal vendettas and crime. What a mess.
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Booster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:10 AM
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14. Just how much f____king money is this idiot going to spend
before he calls it a day. I can't understand why any true conservative could possibly stand by this administration. We will go bankrupt before these goons are finished robbing all of us.
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:15 AM
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16. And while you're applying for the $$$, don't forget the payoff to the GOP.
Er...contributions to the worthy policians who funded this boondoggle..er... humanitarian effort.
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:17 AM
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17. I doubt this is true ...... LBJ tried the same thing on the V.C.
They laughed @ him. bush has to know the story ......
Oh well it might be true after all.
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:25 AM
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19. george bush...the greatest boondoggle to befall the united states...
since the retail sale of snake oil, here at home in his 'ownership society', loan services & mortgage fraud up by staggering percentages, billions in unearned profits to home spun evil doers while regulation is lacking and the nation is looking elsewhere.

it is thee classic 'watch the birdie' form of republican con & shell game applied on a national level :thumbsdown:
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cap Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 03:40 AM
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23. well, now that the ex-dean of liberty university
is head of USAID, you know that money is going to be squandered on fundamentalist charity organization. Well, Fox is going to trumpet this . Watch and see the PR.

Although this might actually work if it were implemented correctly. Set up 10 working cities. Cities that really work. Too bad Bush has his paws on this.
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Wordie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 02:52 PM
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26. Yeah, the idea itself actually seems a good one, the implementation though
is problematical, given the history so far. How many billions have just gone missing???
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BronxBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 06:14 AM
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25. Can NOLA Apply for some of that money?
Oh never mind.....Seems you only get money if you have an insurgency going on.

Getting hit by a bad ass hurricane only qualifies you for heaps of scorn not heaps of cash.

God I love the republican way of life! :sarcasm:
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 02:53 PM
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27. Ahem...
so how much of that goes to the city and towns that were ravaged by hurricanes this year? None you say? For shame...
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 11:26 PM
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29. Could I get some of that? How about NOLA?
How bout the Louisiana coast? Mississippi?

So can I at least get a choice in what BFEE Grand American Failure Project my taxpayer money goes to? I want a refund on the subsidy paid to the airlines and I don't want to pay for GMs future bailout.
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