DOS Technical and Advisory Services 2012-2017

The Department of State Bureau of the Comptroller and Global Financial Services awarded this Master IDIQ for technical and advisory services in support of program evaluation and performance reporting on August 15, 2017, with ordering authority ending August 15, 2017 — the vehicle is now closed to new task orders.

The vehicle funded design and implementation of quantitative and qualitative program evaluations, monitoring activities, assessments and appraisals, strategic analysis, evaluation training and guidance, and meta-evaluations across Department of State bureaus. Over its five-year life, 89 task orders were awarded with a combined potential value of $66.2 million, of which $57.4 million (87%) has been obligated. Ordering activity peaked in 2013 at 25 orders and declined steadily to 4 orders in 2017 as the vehicle approached expiration.

Dexis Interactive LLC dominated the vehicle by both order count and value, capturing 22 of 89 task orders worth $33.8 million in combined potential value. The next three primes — Development & Training Services, Inc. (19 orders, $13.2 million), Social Impact Inc. (20 orders, $9.1 million), and Devtech Systems Inc. (19 orders, $8.1 million) — collectively held roughly 48% of remaining value. The top four firms account for approximately 85% of all task-order potential value; Weidemann Associates, Inc. rounded the awardee base with 9 orders.

Roughly half the task orders (47 of 89) carried a Total Small Business set-aside; the remainder were either unrestricted (41 orders) or competitive 8(a) (1 order). Customer concentration was distributed across 30 funding agencies, though five bureaus accounted for 49% of awards: the Bureau of International Narcotics Law Enforcement (10 orders, $5.8 million), Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (10 orders, $3.2 million), Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor (10 orders, $2.5 million), Bureau of African Affairs (7 orders, $19.9 million), and Bureau of Population Refugees and Migration (7 orders, $2.6 million).

Task orders ranged from under $36,000 to $8.7 million in ceiling value, with durations extending from several weeks to multi-year performance periods. Individual orders typically used Firm Fixed Price or Labor Hours pricing. The vehicle is no longer available for new solicitations.

The Office of Strategic and Performance Planning and the Office of the Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance at the U.S. Department of State has awarded Master IDIQ for Technical and Advisory Services in support of Department of State (DoS) Program Evaluation requirements. Services include: design and implementation of a variety of short-term and long-term quantitative and qualitative program and project evaluations, monitoring activities, assessments and appraisals; strategic analysis; development of evaluation training and guidance; evaluation case studies, meta-evaluations, and other evaluative studies.