MCC Threshold Compact Development Support BPA

The Millennium Challenge Corporation has established a master BPA for threshold and compact development support, with ordering closed as of December 31, 2019; the vehicle is no longer active for new orders.

The BPA, awarded June 14, 2013, supported the Department of Policy and Evaluation and Department of Compact Operations across six scope areas: threshold and compact development, monitoring and evaluation, economic analysis, finance and investment, social and gender issues, and institutional review boards. Fifty-eight task orders were awarded between June 2013 and September 2018, with peak ordering in 2015–2016 (12–14 orders annually) declining to five orders in 2018. Combined potential value across all awards stands at $96.2 million, with $79.1 million obligated (82% utilization).

Work contracted under the vehicle centered on independent evaluations of specific MCC programs in developing countries—water and sanitation projects, land management initiatives, energy sector reforms, agricultural programs, education projects, and health interventions—alongside threshold-program advisory services and gender and social inclusion consulting. Task orders typically carried time-and-materials or firm fixed-price structures with durations extending into the 2020s; a representative sample includes evaluations in Zambia ($2.5 million ceiling), Morocco II ($4.1 million obligated), Malawi ($2.3 million), Ghana ($3.0 million), and Cabo Verde ($3.1 million ceiling).

Mathematica Inc. dominated the vendor base, holding 14 orders worth $44 million in combined potential value (46% of the portfolio by value). Nathan Associates LLC, Social Impact Inc., Integra Government Services International LLC, and ABT Global LLC collectively account for an additional 35% of potential value; the remaining 18 task orders were distributed across a long tail of smaller firms. All orders were unrestricted (98%) or small-business set-aside (2%), with no GSA or other category reservations.

MCC was the sole customer agency. Task orders carried no geographic set-aside; work was performed worldwide in support of MCC's international development programs.

The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has awarded multiple Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPA) under FAR 13.5 "Test Program for Certain Commercial Items" to support the requirements of MCC's Department of Policy and Evaluation (DPE) and the Department of Compact Operations (DCO). The Scope areas include: 1) Threshold and Compact Development, 2) Monitoring and Evaluation, 3) Economic Analysis, 4) Finance, Investment and Trade, 5) Social and Gender Issues, and 6) Institutional Review Boards.