DCHA-DRG Analytical Services IV

USAID's Bureau for Management established this Master IDIQ on May 14, 2019, to provide analytical services supporting democracy, human rights, and governance strategy and policy development, with ordering authority closing May 1, 2024—the vehicle is no longer open for new task orders.

The vehicle is a total small business set-aside established under the Analytical Services IV solicitation (SOL-OAA-16-000175) and succeeds the DCHA-DG Analytical Services III IDIQ (awarded July 29, 2010). The shared ceiling stands at 70 million dollars, with 52.5 million dollars in combined task-order potential value obligated across seven task orders awarded between September 2019 and September 2021. Obligated dollars reached 46 million dollars (88% of combined potential), with ordering activity heaviest in 2020 (four orders). The most recent task order award occurred in September 2021; no new orders have been placed in the past four years, and the ordering period has been closed for two years.

Work encompasses in-country sectoral analysis for mission strategic planning, rapid analytical and technical support during democratic transitions, assessments of foreign authoritarian influence, gender-based violence research, and citizen security analysis. Task orders typically structure work on a cost-plus-fixed-fee basis with periods of performance up to five years. Representative task-order ceilings range from approximately 2.9 million dollars to 19 million dollars.

Development Professionals Inc.-Making Cents International dominates the competitive landscape, holding four of seven awards valued at 36.2 million dollars combined potential (69% of portfolio value). Navanti Group LLC holds two orders (8.5 million dollars combined potential), and Devtech Systems Inc. holds one order (7.9 million dollars). Six of seven task orders carry no set-aside designation; one order is small-business set-aside. Customer concentration is moderate—USAID core agency funds three orders (17.2 million dollars combined), while regional bureaus and field missions (Kosovo, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Latin America and Caribbean) split remaining orders. All work is performed at contractor facilities with travel and deployment worldwide as needs arise.

The Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance's Center of Excellence on Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DCHA/DRG) has an ongoing requirement for analytical support and resources to inform mission, bureau, and agency strategies, policies, program design, planning, and decision making; and secondarily, to provide USAID missions and other operating units the means to source rapid response analytic, and expert advisory/programmatic support during periods of rapidly evolving political change. Analytic services under this Master IDIQ will improve USAID's ability to promote resilient, democratic societies, and to support U.S foreign policy objectives.