Definitive Contract 72011519C00003

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded a $13,575,000.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to Energy And Security Group, LLC (ESG), a small professional services company, for the CASA-1000 Secretariat Project. The objective of this 5-year contract is to provide effective functioning of the CASA-100 Intergovernmental Council Secretariat to facilitate the successful completion of the $1.2 billion CASA-1000 regional electricity transmission project, which aims to enable the Central Asian countries of the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan to sell surplus hydropower to Afghanistan and Pakistan. The contract was set aside for small businesses.