Restoring the Environment through Prosperity, Livelihoods And Conserving Ecosystems (REPLACE)

The U.S. Agency for International Development established the REPLACE Master IDIQ on December 17, 2013, with a shared ceiling of $700 million across all awardees over a five-year ordering period that closed on December 16, 2018. This vehicle is no longer active—ordering closed seven years and seven months ago, and no new task orders can be placed against it.

The vehicle procured integrated technical assistance for sustainable natural resource management, addressing environmental governance, biodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation, and rural livelihoods across USAID priority landscapes. Work spanned environmental threat assessments, tropical forest and biodiversity analysis, project evaluations, carbon accounting, climate-smart agriculture uptake, and implementation support for regional and country-specific conservation activities including LESTARI (Indonesia), PROTECT (Philippines), GEMA (Central America), BIJAK (Indonesia), and CARPE (Central Africa).

Thirty-one task orders were awarded between May 2014 and October 2017. The portfolio concentrated heavily among a small set of primes: Ard, Inc. captured $137.5 million across five orders, DAI Global LLC held $78.9 million across four orders, and Chemonics International secured $47.9 million across three orders. These three firms represented the dominant share of potential value. Ecodit LLC and Integra Government Services International LLC split the remaining volume through nine orders each, with smaller combined values. Two-thirds of task orders (20 of 31) carried no set-aside designation, with the remainder split between partial small business (7 orders), total small business (3 orders), and one service-disabled veteran-owned small business sole-source award.

USAID distributed orders across 17 customer agencies, with USAID headquarters accounting for 11 orders worth $9.2 million in potential value, though field missions in Indonesia, Tanzania, and other regions drove larger individual task-order values. The largest single awards were cost-plus-fixed-fee implementation contracts: West Africa Biodiversity and Climate Change at $53.8 million obligated, LESTARI at $45.6 million obligated, Protect Wildlife (Philippines) at $22.5 million obligated, and PANI (Nepal) at $23.6 million obligated. Smaller awards—many firm-fixed-price assessments and mid-term evaluations—ranged from roughly $100,000 to $500,000. Combined potential value across all 31 task orders reached $313 million, with $302.8 million obligated as of the most recent update, representing 97 percent of potential value realized.

REPLACE offers an integrated approach to sustainable resource management. The aim of REPLACE is to provide a clear framework to address the ecological or natural resources program goals supported by transparent lines of governance and policy and with significant economic incentives for stakeholders.