RAISE PLUS

USAID established the RAISE PLUS Master IDIQ on April 22, 2005, to procure services supporting broad economic growth programs encompassing agriculture, natural resource management, policy reform, institutional governance, and sustainable development for USAID missions and bureaus. The vehicle's ordering period closed on February 27, 2012—fourteen years ago—and no new task orders may be placed against it.

The vehicle issued 86 task orders over its seven-year ordering window, with peak activity in 2008 (22 orders) followed by a decline through 2012 (2 orders). Combined task-order potential value reached $3.93 billion, of which $912.1 million (23 percent) has been obligated. Ordering activity concentrated in the early years; the most recent task order award was February 27, 2012.

Work spans agricultural development, food security, trade competitiveness, natural resource governance, and project evaluation. Representative task orders include a $40.6 million ceiling order for the ACCESO food security initiative in Honduras (Fintrac Inc.), a $36.2 million order for agricultural productivity improvements in East Africa, a $183 million Uganda rural productivity program, and a $480 million ceiling order for EGAT support. Pricing models mix cost-plus-fixed-fee (majority of large orders), firm-fixed-price, and cost-plus-award-fee structures. Most task orders run multiple years; evaluation and analytical studies typically complete within months.

Competition concentrates heavily among five primes. Domestic Awardees (Undisclosed) hold the largest potential value at $2.24 billion across 20 orders. Fintrac Inc. (12 orders, $862.3 million combined potential value), ABT Global LLC (14 orders, $448.3 million), and Ard, Inc. (14 orders, $276.5 million) follow. Weidemann Associates, Inc. holds 26 orders but only $103.5 million combined potential value, indicating smaller average order size. All 86 task orders carry no set-aside designation.

Customer concentration is modest. USAID and its bureaus place the top orders, with the parent agency accounting for 24 orders valued at $602.4 million combined potential. The remaining task orders distribute across 27 customer agencies, with USAID regional missions in Indonesia, Zimbabwe, and the Bureau for Management representing secondary customers. Geographic scope is globally distributed, spanning Africa, Central Asia, South Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean, reflecting USAID's field presence.

Because ordering closed in February 2012, this vehicle is closed to new business and serves only as a reference for understanding USAID's historical economic-growth procurement patterns and active task-order management through closeout.

The RAISE PLUS Master IDIQ is a follow-on mechanism to the RAISE Master IDIQ. It was established to offer USAID missions and bureaus a contract mechanism to obtain services in broad economic growth programs which include agriculture and natural resource elements of policy reform, economic growth, sustainable natural resource management, environment, and institutional governance.