DCHA Learning and Development (LeaD)

The US Agency for International Development Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance awarded this Master IDIQ on September 29, 2017, with a shared ceiling of $20 million and a last date to order of September 28, 2022—the vehicle is no longer active and closed to new task orders over three years ago. The IDIQ supports learning and development capacity-building across USAID's humanitarian assistance portfolio, including knowledge management, performance evaluation, organizational development, and staff training for prevention, response, recovery, transition, and governance activities.

Only three task orders have been awarded across the vehicle's entire lifecycle, with $10 million in combined potential value and $9.8 million obligated (99% of the ceiling). The most recent order was issued in September 2022, at vehicle closeout. Activity was heavily front-loaded to 2018, when two orders were placed; only one order was issued in 2022. This sparse ordering pattern and the vehicle's closure make it unsuitable for new business development.

Encompass LLC dominates the vehicle, holding two orders valued at $9.4 million (94% of combined potential value), while The Kaizen Company, LLC holds the remaining $594 thousand in a single order. Two distinct customer agencies are served: USAID proper funded $7.6 million across two orders, and the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance funded $2.4 million. Set-asides are split: two-thirds of orders were unrestricted, and one-third (the most recent order, the Generating Results in Our Work and Thought Leadership task order to Encompass) was set aside as Total Small Business. All three task orders use cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing. The September 2022 GROWTH task order represents the vehicle's largest action at $6.96 million; two earlier orders for knowledge management and learning support ranged from $594 thousand to $2.43 million. No place of performance detail is available in the source, though work is likely concentrated at USAID regional bureaus and field missions supporting humanitarian programming.

The primary objective of the DCHA Learning and Development (LeaD) IDIQ is to strengthen staff capacity to lead and manage the design, implementation and evaluation of prevention, response, recovery, transition, and governance activities by building capacity, providing information and resources, sharing knowledge, supporting performance management and organizational development efforts, evaluating activities to maximize learning and professional development.