Solicitation
Recovery Worldwide BPA
Export-Import Bank of the US
AI summaryThe Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) wants one or more blanket purchase agreements (BPAs: standing agreements for repeat orders) with firms that collect money owed on claims EXIM has paid, with work in the United States and worldwide. EXIM would place individual orders (BPA calls) case by case, with a five-year ordering period. Firms with legal, collection and recovery capability in many countries are favored. The response due date is November 11, 2026, 10:00 AM Eastern. More in the summary
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The Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) wants one or more blanket purchase agreements (BPAs: standing agreements for repeat orders) with firms that collect money owed on claims EXIM has paid, with work in the United States and worldwide. EXIM would place individual orders (BPA calls) case by case, with a five-year ordering period. Firms with legal, collection and recovery capability in many countries are favored. The response due date is November 11, 2026, 10:00 AM Eastern.
Who can bid
- Hold an active SAM registration when the BPA is set up and while performing
- Use duly qualified, registered or licensed professionals in each country where litigation or enforcement happens
- Show three or more recovery, enforcement, collection, restructuring or asset-recovery projects
How to submit: Email only, in PDF format, to Travis Finkle at travis.finkle@exim.gov. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (9)
From the version posted Oct 21, 2026.
- Serious: Worldwide coverage and foreign offices drive the score. Verified coverage in many countries and your own offices abroad are significant discriminators, so a small firm with few foreign offices may rate lower.
- Serious: Three past performance projects required. A quote with fewer than three projects can be rated incomplete or unacceptable.
- Serious: Licensed professionals needed in every country you cover. You must use properly licensed professionals in each jurisdiction and follow that country's laws, including labor, tax and data-protection rules; local counsel and travel are at your cost.
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- Worth checking: Unsupported country claims get little credit. EXIM may verify offices and partners, and a quote that passes off third-party resources as your own offices may be rated Unsatisfactory.
- Worth checking: No guaranteed work. A BPA is not a contract and does not obligate funds; the $9,000,000 figure is for planning only, and each BPA call is competed.
- Worth checking: Paid mostly on results. The contingency fee is paid only on accepted recoveries, and litigation or unusual expenses outside the approved scope are not reimbursed without advance written approval.
- Worth checking: Quick turnaround on BPA call quotes. Once you hold a BPA, you may have only 2 to 5 business days to quote on each call.
- Worth checking: Court action needs written approval. You may start legal proceedings only after EXIM's Office of General Counsel approves in writing.
- Minor: Number of BPAs described differently. The SF 1449 describes a BPA with one qualified vendor, while the request for quotations says one or more BPAs may be set up.
Read from the notice and 2 attachments. Show which files.
- 83310127Q0007 Worldwide Solicitation SF1449.pdf (read)
- 83310127Q0007 RFQ_BPA_Worldwide_Recovery.pdf (read)
Full summary
What they want
- Recover money owed to EXIM by borrowers (obligors) and guarantors, worldwide
- Research each case: asset searches, credit analysis and a review of legal actions against the debtor
- Try collection without going to court (extrajudicial collection) within the timeframe in each BPA call
- Negotiate settlements and workouts, and handle credit restructuring and recovery agreements
- File and manage legal proceedings and enforcement only after written approval from EXIM's Office of General Counsel
- Deliver a written recovery plan within 60 calendar days of each BPA call, unless the call says otherwise
- Deliver an extrajudicial collection status report within 90 calendar days, and litigation and recovery status reports semiannually or as the call states
- Use licensed or authorized professionals, and local counsel at your own cost, in each country where you work
- Contract type
- Blanket purchase agreement (BPA). CLIN 0001 (contract line item number: one priced line) is a firm-fixed-price due diligence fee per case. CLIN 0002 is a contingency fee: a percentage of money recovered, paid only on accepted recoveries.
- Period of performance
- BPA ordering period of five years from each BPA's effective date; the SF 1449 lists December 1, 2026 to November 30, 2031. Each BPA call states its own period.
- Place of performance
- United States and worldwide; work may be done at the contractor's facilities or EXIM offices in Washington, DC
- Estimated value
- Government's estimate: about $9,000,000 in total purchases under each BPA over the BPA period; not a minimum or a guarantee
- Contract vehicle
- New blanket purchase agreements (BPAs) set up under this solicitation; no existing vehicle is required
- How they'll choose
- Best-value tradeoff under FAR 13.106-2; Factor One is more important than Factor Two, and Factors One and Two together are significantly more important than Price
- Offers due
- November 11, 2026, 10:00 AM Eastern
- How to submit
- Email only, in PDF format, to Travis Finkle at travis.finkle@exim.gov
- Page limits
- Past performance: each project narrative no more than three pages
What they'll judge offers on
- Factor One, Technical and Management Approach: approach, breadth of verified country coverage, and Vendor-owned or Vendor-controlled offices outside the U.S.
- Factor Two, Past Performance: three or more similar recovery projects, with extra weight for U.S. federal agency work
- Factor Three, Price: due diligence fee and contingency fee checked for fairness and reasonableness
What to include when you submit
- Send the technical quote and the price quote as separate PDFs; the technical quote must not contain any pricing
- Technical quote: company name, address, unique entity ID, CAGE code, business size and active SAM status
- Include a technical and management approach, key personnel and their qualifications, and any known conflicts of interest
- Complete Appendix C, the Worldwide Capability Summary and Country Coverage Matrix, listing every country you want credit for
- Label each country's coverage 1 to 4: your own office, an affiliated office, an established subcontractor or partner, or another third party
- Do not call an affiliate, subcontractor or local counsel your own office
- Name the countries that can support case mobilization within 48 hours and back that up
- Send three or more completed or ongoing projects showing recovery, enforcement, collection, restructuring or asset recovery, one Appendix B form per project
- Complete the pricing sheet (Appendix A): a due diligence fee per case and a contingency fee percentage; supplemental pricing by country or region is allowed
- State that prices are in U.S. dollars and valid for the required acceptance period (30 calendar days after the due date unless an addendum says otherwise)
- Acknowledge any amendments
- Write everything in English
After award, you must have
- Staff who work on the contract must sign a non-disclosure agreement before work starts, and staff who need EXIM building or network access must complete forms and show photo ID From 83310127Q0007 Worldwide Solicitation SF1449.pdf:
…this contract shall execute and submit a Non-Disclosure Agreement prior to the commencement of any…
Not in the notice text
- The documents do not name a set-aside; the SAM.gov set-aside field says not stated
- The countries and cases for the first BPA calls are not listed; each call will name them
- How host-country taxes such as value-added tax are treated in prices is not stated
- The request for quotations has a placeholder note for the contracting officer to attach a provision-and-clause list; check the clause list in the SF 1449 document
- The pricing sheet gives no expected fee levels or contingency percentage
Eligibility and how to respond
- No set-aside: any business, large or small, can bid unless the notice says otherwise.
- How to submit, from the AI summary: Email only, in PDF format, to Travis Finkle at travis.finkle@exim.gov. Check it in the notice before you send anything.
- Service contracts usually set minimum pay rates (the Service Contract Act). Price the labor with the SCA price calculator.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 21, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Office
- Export Import Bank of US
- Product/service code
- R418 · Support – Professional: Legal
- Business type
- Consulting & professional services (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 541110)
- Attachments
Past awards and competition
Who has won work like this before, the likely incumbent, and what similar contracts paid, from USAspending.gov.
Before you respond
- How to respond to a solicitation (8 steps)
- How to read a government solicitation
- How to price a government contract
Terms on this notice: Solicitation
Full notice text from SAM.gov
EXIM Bank seeks to establish a BPA for recovery assistance Worldwide from a recovery firm principally collecting balances of certain paid claims under its credit guarantee and insurance programs. The Contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, supplies, facilities, transportation, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and non-personal services necessary to perform loan recovery services as stated in this Performance Work Statement except for those items specified as Government furnished property and services. See attachment for full requirements.
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