SEGIR Global Business Trade and Development II (GBTI II)

The US Agency for International Development Bureau for Management Office of the Assistant Administrator established GBTI II, a Master IDIQ for global business trade and development technical assistance, on December 12, 2006, with a shared ceiling of $3 billion and ordering authority expiring September 30, 2012 — the vehicle is no longer available for new orders and closed more than thirteen years ago.

Ninety task orders awarded under GBTI II between June 2007 and August 2012 obligated $1.07 billion of the $1.71 billion combined task-order potential value (62% utilization). Orders declined sharply in the vehicle's final two years — from 21 orders annually in 2008–2009 and 24 in 2010, to 9 in 2011 and only 5 in 2012 — signaling wind-down activity as the ordering deadline approached.

Awarded work spanned economic growth, trade facilitation, private sector development, tax administration reform, competitiveness programs, and targeted sectoral assistance worldwide. Representative task orders included support for trade and accession facilitation in Afghanistan ($19.3 million), economic governance assistance to South Sudan's central bank and ministries ($19.7 million), trade capacity building in Peru and the Andean region ($17.0 million), and a Local Development Program in Kyrgyzstan ($26.8 million). The vehicle also funded evaluations, analytical assessments, and cross-cutting policy work alongside multi-year implementation programs.

Eight distinct prime contractors shared the workload, with a concentration among a small set. Undisclosed domestic awardees (likely a category placeholder for multiple small contractors or domestic agents) held 31 task orders worth $743.3 million combined potential value. Carana Corporation led named primes with 14 orders valued at $448.4 million, followed by DAI / Nathan Group GBTI II, LLC with 13 orders at $250.1 million and Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. with 5 orders at $151 million. These five entities captured 96% of the combined potential value.

USAID's own operating units dominated customer concentration. The parent USAID agency and its Bureau for Management Office placed 39 of 90 task orders (43% of total order count); additional orders supported USAID regional missions in Ukraine, Central Asia, and West Bank and Gaza. Across 35 funding customer agencies, geographic dispersal reflected USAID's global presence, with significant concentration in Eastern Europe, South Asia, the Middle East, and sub-Saharan Africa.

The set-aside distribution was heavily skewed toward unrestricted competition: 82 task orders (91%) carried no set-aside designation, while only 8 orders (9%) were designated for small business. Task orders employed mixed pricing structures—predominantly time-and-materials for large implementation programs, with firm fixed price and cost-plus arrangements for defined evaluations and specific sectoral work. Task-order potential values ranged from under $100 thousand for small evaluations to over $300 million for the West Africa Trade Hub and major Pakistan competitiveness initiatives, with typical operational programs in the $5–25 million range.

USAID's primary objectives for GBTI II focus on devising and implementing robust strategies to promote real economic growth, reduce poverty, graduate transitional countries from aid to trade, promote open competitive markets, develop the private sector, and mobilize private financing sources to supplement and eventually replace development assistance.