Bureau of International Organization Affairs

The Department of State's Bureau of International Organization Affairs is the civilian agency responsible for managing U.S. participation in international organizations and funding related diplomatic, humanitarian, and development initiatives. The Bureau executes its mission primarily through a distributed contracting model and a smaller grant program focused on international civil society and multilateral organizations.

The Bureau has awarded 3,043 federal contracts totaling $290.3 million in combined potential value since 2003, with $249.4 million obligated to date. Recent contract volume has declined: 120 awards in 2022, 112 in 2023, 126 in 2024, 62 in 2025, and 35 year-to-date in 2026. The most recent award was recorded in late September 2026. Contract competition is highly fragmented across 539 distinct prime contractors, with the top five primes covering only 45 percent of recent awards by count and 2 percent by potential value. Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees account for 144 awards (110 and 34 in separate rows) generating $4.3 million combined potential value over the last five years; no single U.S. or foreign named prime contractor exceeds thirty awards. New TECH Solutions, Inc., At&T Mobility National Accounts LLC, and Mariethoz Alain SARL each hold between 18 and 30 awards, but their combined potential values fall below $500 thousand each. This highly dispersed competitive landscape reflects the Bureau's practice of direct awards to foreign entities and small specialized vendors supporting multilateral engagement rather than consolidation around major primes. Nearly all awards carry no set-aside designation (97 percent), with the remainder split among small-business categories (2 percent total, heavily dominated by Total Small Business).

The Bureau has awarded 128 federal grants totaling $2.5 million in federal dollars since 2015, with 20 awards in 2024, 17 in 2023, 11 in 2021, 10 in 2022, and 1 in 2026. Grant competition is moderately concentrated: the top five recipients by award count cover 42 percent of recent awards, and the top five by federal dollars cover 22 percent. The Geneva Centre For Security Policy and Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees each hold six and five awards respectively; Dev.tv and Service International Pour Les Droits De L'homme account for three and four awards respectively. Grant awards are overwhelmingly Project Grants (95 percent) with a small share of Cooperative Agreements (5 percent). Recent grant activity has slowed considerably, with only one award recorded in 2026 and none between late 2024 and mid-2026.

No recent contract opportunities or grant opportunities are recorded in the source material. Current pursuit interest depends on sector focus — the contract portfolio favors foreign vendors and international NGO partners, while the grant program targets established international organizations with demonstrated multilateral engagement experience.