Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs

The Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs is a civilian sub-agency that administers diplomatic engagement, development assistance, and capacity-building funding across East Asian and Pacific Island nations, with contract and grant mechanisms supporting both direct procurement and cooperative programs with foreign and U.S. institutions.

The Bureau has issued 43,543 federal contract awards totaling $3.46 billion in combined potential value since 2001, with $1.76 billion obligated. Recent contract volume declined: 1,823 awards in 2022, 1,812 in 2023, 1,631 in 2024, 1,161 in 2025, and 868 year-to-date in 2026. The most recent recorded award date is November 6, 2026. Contract awards are highly fragmented by prime contractor—the top five by award count cover 47 percent of recent awards but are dominated by aggregated "Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees" entries totaling roughly 2,848 awards across multiple country-level groupings; disaggregated named contractors are sparse, with New TECH Solutions, Inc. and Ethan Allen Retail, Inc. among the few identified primes by name. By potential value, the top five cover only 3 percent of combined potential value, reinforcing a highly dispersed competitive base where most individual awards are small. Nearly all awards—97 percent—carry no set-aside designation; the remaining 3 percent distribute across small-business categories, with total small-business awards at 1,379 across all designations.

The Bureau has issued 5,485 federal grant awards totaling $545.5 million in federal dollars obligated since 2010, with total combined federal and non-federal share of $589.7 million. Grant volume contracted sharply: 606 awards in 2022, 615 in 2023, 584 in 2024, 51 in 2025, and 47 in 2026 through October 1. Grant recipients are fragmented by award count—the top five hold 20 percent of recent awards—but moderately concentrated by federal dollars: the top five recipients account for 24 percent of federal dollars obligated. The Asia Foundation dominates the dollar side with $90.4 million federal dollars across 9 awards; the remainder of the top tier consists of miscellaneous foreign awardees. Grants are predominantly Project Grants (93 percent), with Cooperative Agreements comprising 7 percent.

Among recent grant opportunities, the Bureau posted a Cooperative Agreement solicitation (DFOP0019436) on August 25, 2026, due August 26, 2026, for a Legal Competency and Training Program in Southeast Asia and the Pacific targeting public higher-education institutions to strengthen legal capacity of government officials in public international law and maritime boundary negotiation.