Power Africa

USAID's Bureau for Africa established this Master IDIQ for Power Africa transaction advisory services, engineering support, technical assistance, and enabling-environment work across 14 technical areas in sub-Saharan Africa on February 19, 2018, with ordering authority that closed on February 18, 2025—the vehicle is no longer open to new task orders.

The vehicle carried a combined potential value of $900 million at establishment. Nine task orders have been issued across generation, transmission, and distribution transactions; finance; legal and engineering services; utility reform; electricity access; and energy efficiency, with awards concentrated in large regional programs. The most recent task order was issued in August 2020, reflecting declining ordering momentum from five orders in 2018 through just one in 2020. Combined task-order potential value stands at $324 million with $291.5 million obligated (90% of potential), indicating substantial execution against the vehicle before its ordering authority expired.

Deloitte Consulting LLP dominates the competitive landscape, holding three orders valued at $188.7 million combined potential—58% of all task-order value. Research Triangle Institute secured two orders worth $120.5 million (37%). Ecodit LLC and Green Powered Technology LLC each hold two orders but capture only $8.8 million and $6 million respectively. The vehicle is unrestricted at the vehicle level; two orders (22%) were designated Small Business, with the remainder unrestricted. Customer concentration is pronounced: USAID South Africa placed six orders worth $179.3 million combined potential, while the USAID Bureau for Africa placed three orders worth $144.7 million, accounting for 100% of task-order activity.

Task orders ranged from firm fixed-price feasibility studies under $2 million to large cost-plus-fixed-fee regional programs exceeding $100 million, with durations extending into 2024 and 2025. The Nigeria Power Sector Program order alone reached $109.3 million ceiling value; the East Africa Energy Program and West Africa Energy Program each exceeded $65 million potential value. All awarded work is performance in sub-Saharan Africa with administrative oversight at USAID. The vehicle is no longer receptive to new business development activity.

USAID's Power Africa IDIQ contract for transaction advisory services, enabling environment technical support, engineering services and technical assistance that will lead to 30,000 megawatts of new generation and 60 million connections in sub-saharan Africa. Assistance will be rendered under 14 technical areas: 1) Generation, transmission, and distribution transactions; 2) Finance; 3) Legal; 4) engineering; 5) planning; 6) electric utility reform and restructuring; 7) electricity access; 8) international power exchange and power trading; 9) demand-side management and energy efficiency; 10) cleaner energy technologies; 11) gas; 12) governance; 13) legal and regulatory framework; 14) coordination and cooperation.