Elections IDIQ

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) established the Elections IDIQ on September 12, 2005, to support fair and free elections worldwide, with ordering authority that closed on December 1, 2014—over 11 years ago. This vehicle is no longer available for new task-order awards.

The Elections IDIQ generated 17 task orders between September 2008 and March 2012, with a combined potential value of $916.2 million and $138.1 million obligated (15% of combined potential). One undisclosed domestic awardee holds approximately 99% of the vehicle's potential value ($909.9 million across 8 orders), while Democracy International, Inc., and Creative Associates International, Inc., hold the remaining $5.3 million and $981 thousand respectively. Competition under this vehicle was effectively nonexistent; the single dominant prime contractor captured the vast majority of work from award through the final order in 2012.

Task orders funded elections administration, election monitoring, parallel vote tabulation, civic and voter education, political party evaluation, and electoral security assessments across USAID regional and functional bureaus, with the largest single order ($174.5 million ceiling) supporting Sudan election administration and referenda under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. Geographic scope ranged widely—Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Georgia, Albania, Ecuador, El Salvador, Haiti, Morocco, and Russia/Middle East survey work—with the Afghanistan mission generating a single order valued at $655.9 million potential. All 17 orders were unrestricted (no set-aside designation). Pricing structures varied across time-and-materials, firm fixed-price, cost-plus fixed-fee, and labor-hours models.

The vehicle is closed to new activity. Historical ordering momentum peaked in 2009 (5 orders) but fell to single orders by 2012. Since March 2012, no new task orders have been issued under this IDIQ.

This is a Master IDIQ under USAID/DCHA/DG to support fair and free elections worldwide.