Bureau for Economic Growth Education and Environment

The US Agency for International Development Bureau for Economic Growth Education and Environment is a civilian sub-agency within USAID that funds economic development, educational capacity-building, and environmental initiatives in partner countries through both contracts and grants. The Bureau executes its mission through a mix of contracting for technical services and grant-making to international organizations and foreign governments.

The Bureau's contract portfolio comprises 237 awards totaling $1.4 billion in combined potential value since 1998, with $464.6 million obligated. Recent contract activity has slowed substantially: the Bureau awarded 48 contracts in 2017, 16 in 2018, 14 in 2019, 6 in 2020, and 4 in 2021; the most recent recorded award closed on 2021-09-29. Among 103 distinct prime contractors, competitive concentration is highly fragmented—the source does not identify top-tier primes by award count or by potential value. The contract set-aside mix strongly favors open competition: 95 percent of awards carry no set-aside designation, with 3 percent awarded as 8(a) sole-source and 1 percent as total small business. Recent awards with no reported potential value account for a portion of the portfolio, suggesting the Bureau transacts through Schedule task orders, BPA calls, or modifications alongside definitive contracts.

The Bureau's grant portfolio comprises 49 awards totaling $380.7 million in federal dollars obligated since 2004, with a combined federal-plus-non-federal total of $404.7 million. Grant activity over the last five years—2 awards in 2019, 4 in 2020, 5 in 2021, 1 in 2022, and 2 in 2023—is modest and irregular; the most recent grant award closed on 2023-10-01. Among 40 distinct recipients, the top three by recent award count are Deutsche Gesellschaft Fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GMBH ($1.3 million federal share), Union Network International (UNI) ($8 million), and Department For International Development ($6.3 million). Grant recipient concentration is highly fragmented, with the top five recipients accounting for only 4 percent of recent federal dollars obligated. The assistance-type mix is dominated by Cooperative Agreements (84 percent of awards) with a smaller share of Project Grants (16 percent).

No recent contract opportunities or grant opportunities are recorded in the source. The Bureau's contracting activity has declined sharply since 2018, and grant-making cadence remains low; both signals suggest limited near-term pursuit opportunity unless the agency reactivates its solicitation pipeline.