Technical Assistance Support Contract 4 (TASC 4)

The US Agency for International Development awarded Technical Assistance Support Contract 4 (TASC 4) on April 1, 2014, as a small-business set-aside Master IDIQ for information and communications technology services supporting health sector strengthening and infectious disease programs across USAID missions and operating units. Ordering closed on June 3, 2019, and the vehicle is no longer accepting new task orders.

The vehicle had a combined potential value of $60 million over its five-year ordering period, though task orders under it eventually totaled $170.3 million in potential value across six awards. By the time ordering closed, contractors had obligated $130.2 million, representing 76 percent of the combined potential value across all task orders. Ordering activity peaked in 2016 with two task orders and concluded with two orders in 2019.

Scope focused on ICT solutions for health system strengthening, data management, monitoring and evaluation, behavior change communication, and capacity building across sub-Saharan Africa. Representative orders included a five-year tuberculosis project in South Africa ($64.8 million potential value), a Zambia systems-strengthening activity ($41.4 million potential value), and a three-year client management information system build-out in Eswatini ($12.6 million potential value). All orders were Cost Plus Fixed Fee and carried no set-aside designation.

Competition was concentrated among a small set of established global health contractors. University Research Co., LLC captured the largest single order at $64.8 million potential value; ABT Global LLC held two orders totaling $50.4 million; and Intrahealth International, Inc. earned $37.6 million potential value across one award. These three firms accounted for roughly 85 percent of combined potential value, with the remaining two primes (Fei.com, Inc. and Population Services International) capturing smaller allocations.

Customer concentration was similarly narrow. USAID South Africa placed two orders representing $77.4 million in combined potential value. USAID Zambia, USAID's Bureau for Management Office of the Assistant Administrator, USAID Malawi, and USAID Senegal split the remainder. TASC 4 succeeded Population Health and Nutrition Technical Assistance and Support Contract Three, awarded in December 2006.

This ICT Health IDIQ will provide USAID Missions and Bureaus with the capacity to obtain highly-tailored sets of skills in the development and application of information and communications technology for strengthening of information systems within the health sector (e.g., routine data collection strengthening activities), as well as technical and logistical support in health communication and social mobilization, including behavior change communication and public/media relations by various health activities.