Human and Institutional Capacity Development for Non-Critical Priority Countries (HICDpro Non-CPC)

The US Agency for International Development Bureau for Management Office of the Assistant Administrator established this Master IDIQ on November 12, 2013, to support human and institutional capacity development activities in non-critical priority countries, with a shared ceiling of $300 million and ordering authority that closed on November 12, 2018. This vehicle is no longer active for new task orders.

The IDIQ executed eight task orders between March 2015 and September 2018, generating $38.2 million in combined potential value with $34.7 million obligated (91% of combined value). Ordering momentum declined from three orders annually in 2015–2016 to one per year in 2017–2018, reflecting the vehicle's final years of operation. Social Impact Inc. dominates by potential value with a single $19.3 million task order focused on civil society capacity in Mexico, while Integrated Business & Technical Consultants, Inc. leads by order count with three awards totaling $6.6 million. Me&A, Inc. holds $7.4 million across one order, and International Business Initiatives LLC and The Kaizen Company, LLC together account for $5 million. The five primes show no dominant player by order count; the top three by potential value control roughly 74% of the vehicle's total committed funding.

Task orders funded diverse USAID regional missions, with USAID/Mexico placing the largest single order at $19.3 million and USAID/El Salvador issuing two orders totaling $8 million. USAID/Georgia, Kosovo, Egypt, and Morocco each placed one order. Seven of eight task orders carried no set-aside designation; one small-business task order was included.

Work centered on organizational performance assessments, institutional capacity strengthening, and civil society development. Typical task-order values ranged from $432 thousand to $19.3 million, with cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price vehicles both used. Performance periods extended to completion dates between 2017 and 2023. Geographic performance was dispersed across USAID regional missions in Central America, the Middle East, Africa, and the Caucasus, with administrative oversight from USAID Washington. The E3 bureau provided implementation infrastructure including tools for performance solution design, evaluation, and impact reporting, along with ongoing technical support.

The E3 bureau will support HICD activities offered under this Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Contract by providing an infrastructure for implementation including: a package of tools to aid performance solution design, implementation, research, evaluation, and success/impact reporting; and by providing ongoing technical support to sponsoring units.