US Mission in Libya

The US Agency for International Development Libya is the civilian agency responsible for managing USAID's bilateral development assistance portfolio in Libya, including both direct contracting and grant-making to implement development programs.

The agency has awarded 4 federal contracts totaling $34.8 million in combined potential value, with $21 million obligated as of the most recent award date in August 2024. Activity is sparse: one award each in 2016, 2017, 2023, and 2024. All four awards carry no set-aside designation. Chemonics International, Inc. holds $18.9 million of the recent contract volume and accounts for 55 percent of combined potential value over the last five years. A second domestic awardee (undisclosed) received one award valued at $77 thousand. With only four total prime contractors and recent activity concentrated in a single vendor, the contract competitive base is highly fragmented by count but concentrated by dollar value.

The agency has obligated $231.2 million in federal grant dollars across 8 cooperative agreements since 2012, with the most recent award closing in September 2024. Grant activity shows 1 award in 2018, 1 in 2019, 1 in 2022, 2 in 2023, and 2 in 2024. All eight grants are structured as Cooperative Agreements. Chemonics International, Inc. is the largest recipient by federal dollars, holding $29 million across one award. The American Bar Association ($7.8 million), Democracy International, Inc. ($4.9 million), the United Nations Development Programme ($3.5 million), and BBC Media Action ($2.1 million) account for the remaining recent awards. Five recipients split the last five years of activity, with Chemonics holding 20 percent of recent federal dollars obligated and the remaining recipients highly fragmented across the long tail.

The contract and grant portfolios operate independently: Chemonics appears in both, but the agency's contract base and grant recipient base do not substantially overlap. Contract awards are rare and cyclical; grant-making through Cooperative Agreements is more active but still modest in annual cadence. No recent contract opportunities or grant opportunities are recorded in the source data.