EVAL ME II – Monitoring Evaluation Learning Services (EVAL ME II)

USAID's Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning awarded EVAL ME II – Monitoring Evaluation Learning Services on July 30, 2020, as a multiple-award Master IDIQ for monitoring, evaluation, and learning services, with ordering open through September 20, 2027. The solicitation was set aside for total small businesses and was structured to award up to fifteen 7-year IDIQ contracts under a $655 million shared ceiling. Ordering authority has 10 months and 2 weeks remaining. The vehicle has 44 task orders, with $271.4 million obligated (61%) against $446.4 million in combined potential value.

Ordering has slowed: 9 orders in 2021, 23 in 2022, 8 in 2023, and 4 in 2024, with the most recent award on September 30, 2024. The solicitation named Amex International, Banyan Global, Cultural Practice, DevTech Systems, and Democracy International as incumbents.

Task orders buy evaluation design and implementation using quantitative and qualitative methods, performance monitoring, mid-term and final performance evaluations, third-party monitoring including in-country work in a non-permissive environment in Haiti, mission-level monitoring, evaluation, and learning platforms, and collaborating, learning, and adapting support.

Activity is concentrated among a small group of primes. Encompass LLC holds the most value at 7 orders and $86.3 million, and Linc LLC ties it at 7 orders with $27 million. International Business Initiatives LLC holds 3 orders worth $63.6 million. Socha, LLC, Integrity Global Inc., and Bixal Solutions Incorporated each hold 4 orders. The top five primes by order count account for 59% of task orders, with a wider field of 16 total awardees beyond them.

US Agency for International Development Mexico is the largest customer, placing 11 orders worth $173.6 million in combined potential value. The top five customers account for 50% of orders across 25 distinct customer agencies.

Set-aside use is overwhelmingly unrestricted: 34 orders (77%) carry no set-aside, 9 (20%) are Total Small Business, and 1 (2%) is Woman-Owned Small Business sole source.

Recent orders are predominantly cost-plus-fixed-fee. Examples include the Mission Strategic Support Program for USAID/DRC and USAID/CARPE, with $24.0 million obligated against a $29.2 million ceiling, and MESCLA 2.0 with a $24.6 million ceiling. Several recent orders carry termination-for-convenience notices, and an administrative modification terminated the USAID/Ghana MEL platform order citing a March 18, 2025 notice.

Performance spans worldwide locations, including African countries such as Malawi, Tanzania, Ghana, Senegal, Djibouti, and the DRC; Asian operating units including Bangladesh and Burma; Latin America and the Caribbean including Mexico, Jamaica, Colombia, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic; and Serbia and Lebanon.

Provide monitoring, evaluation and learning services in order to promote evidence-based decision making for adaptive management across USAID. The services under these awards require skills in monitoring, evaluation research design (including qualitative methods, quantitative impact evaluation methods, experimental and quasi-experimental design), data collection, analysis, and synthesis, report writing, and planning for USAID's Office of Policy, Planning and Learning, Office of Learning, Evaluation, and Research (USAID/PPL/LER)