Energy IDIQ II

USAID's Bureau for Management is operating the Energy IDIQ II, a master IDIQ established September 30, 2019, with a combined potential value of $700 million and a shared ceiling of $700 million. The ordering period expires September 30, 2026—approximately two months of remaining authority. The vehicle procures technical assistance and capacity building across the full spectrum of energy sector development, including energy planning, regulatory reform, renewable integration, energy efficiency, utility modernization, and market development, typically supporting five-year country or regional programs.

The vehicle is heavily obligated: $541.1 million of the $651.2 million combined potential value across 22 awarded task orders has been committed (83%). Task-order activity peaked in 2021 (10 orders) and has since slowed; the most recent award dates to June 2022, indicating no new orders in roughly four years. Task orders range from roughly $9 million to $144.8 million ceiling, with several mega-awards driving the portfolio: Moldova Energy Security Activity ($144.8 million ceiling), Tetra TECH ES's South Asia Regional Energy Partnership ($48.9 million), Energy Secure Philippines Activity ($45.9 million), and Power Central Asia Phase I ($44.8 million). All awards use cost-plus pricing (fixed fee or award fee structures).

Competition is highly concentrated among the top three primes: Tetra TECH ES, Inc. holds 7 orders worth $303 million combined potential value (46% of all potential value), Research Triangle Institute holds 4 orders worth $130.7 million, and Deloitte Consulting LLP holds 5 orders worth $128.2 million. These three firms capture 97% of combined potential value. A wider field including Numark Associates and Chemonics International accounts for the remaining five awards, but ordering momentum has effectively ceased since mid-2022.

Customer concentration is diffuse across USAID's geographic missions. USAID Mexico leads with 8 orders totaling $188.5 million, followed by scattered single-award missions in Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, and Kosovo. No set-aside designations apply; all 22 orders are unrestricted competitive procurements. The vehicle's remaining two months of ordering authority and dormancy since 2022 suggest the vehicle is in wind-down, with focus shifting to existing task-order performance rather than new competition.

The Energy IDIQ II aims to address the global demand for, and use of, modern energy services by fostering sustainable energy development in countries assisted by USAID. Task Orders under the Energy IDIQ II mechanism provide USAID Missions, regional bureaus, hostcountry stakeholders and partners with ready access to technical assistance and capacity building to manage the legal, regulatory, policy, governance, operational, financial, economic and transactional components of improved energy sector performance and strengthened enabling environment for private sector investment. Activities may include interventions at multiple scales, from the household level to issues of global dimension. Task Orders can also support activities at the intersection of energy and any of USAID's primary program areas, including but not limited to: agriculture and food security, economic growth and trade, democracy, rights and governance, education, climate variability and change, human population and health, social development and gender equality, disaster mitigation and response, reconstruction, environmental and natural resource management, and urban development.