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

USAID's Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning established EVAL ME II, a $655 million Master IDIQ for monitoring, evaluation, and learning services, on July 30, 2020, with ordering authority through July 31, 2027—approximately one year and two weeks remaining. The vehicle was fully set aside for small businesses at award but task-order execution shows 80 percent are now issued without set-aside designation, 18 percent under total small business set-aside, and 2 percent under woman-owned small business sole-source.

Forty-four task orders totaling $446.4 million in combined potential value have been awarded since February 2021, with $271.4 million obligated (61 percent of potential). Ordering momentum has declined substantially: nine orders in 2021, twenty-three in 2022, eight in 2023, and four in 2024. The most recent award was September 30, 2024.

Task orders procure evaluation research design services including qualitative and quantitative impact evaluation, experimental and quasi-experimental design, data collection, analysis, report writing, and organizational learning support for USAID missions, regional bureaus, and the Office of Learning, Evaluation, and Research. Work is performed worldwide. Recent awards include monitoring and evaluation platforms in Bangladesh, Ghana, Senegal, Tanzania, and Haiti; impact evaluations and final performance evaluations across multiple countries; and learning and adaptation support for regional bureaus covering Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia.

Encompass LLC leads by potential value at $86.3 million across seven orders; International Business Initiatives LLC holds $63.6 million across three orders; and Socha, LLC commands $63 million across four orders. These three firms represent 37 percent of combined potential value. A wider field of thirteen additional small business firms share the remainder. USAID/Mexico dominates customer concentration, placing twelve orders worth $177.8 million—roughly 40 percent of all task-order potential value. Remaining orders distribute across regional missions and USAID bureaus.

Task-order values span from $166,089 to $29.2 million in potential ceiling. Orders typically employ cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price constructs, with performance periods ranging from several months to multi-year arrangements. Several large awards feature incremental funding across multiple years.

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)