USAID Southern Africa Program Evaluation Services IDIQ

The US Agency for International Development established this Master IDIQ on July 17, 2012 to provide evaluation services for USAID programs in Southern Africa (Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland), with a shared ceiling of $5 million and a last date to order of July 16, 2016. Ordering under this vehicle closed ten years ago and is no longer available.

The vehicle awarded 13 task orders across four prime contractors over its four-year ordering window. All task orders are unrestricted, non-set-aside competitive awards. Khulisa Management Services (Pty) LTD captured the majority of activity with 7 orders totaling $1.6 million in potential value, followed by Aquity Innovations with 3 orders valued at $661 thousand, DNA Economics (Pty) LTD with 2 orders at $290 thousand, and Open Space Consultants CC with 1 order at $159 thousand.

Awarded task orders executed program evaluations across USAID Southern Africa's development portfolio. The work included performance evaluations of health programs (HIV/AIDS services, tuberculosis projects, hospice care), education initiatives (early grade reading activities in Malawi, school literacy interventions in South Africa), civil-society strengthening in Botswana, and data quality assessments. Task orders were firm fixed price with typical durations between six and eighteen months and individual ceiling values ranging from approximately $120 thousand to $453 thousand.

Nearly all orders funded USAID/Southern Africa regional programs, with two orders supporting USAID/South Africa. The combined potential value of all awarded task orders was $2.8 million, with $2.7 million obligated by January 2016, representing full utilization of the combined ceiling before the vehicle's ordering deadline.

Ordering momentum peaked in 2014 and 2015, with four orders awarded in each year, before declining to a single order in 2016. The most recent delivery order, awarded January 18, 2016, was an end-term performance evaluation modification to Khulisa.

This vehicle is closed and no longer available for new task order activity.

The objective of this Master IDIQ is to provide evaluation services for USAID Southern africa, which includes Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland programs, in a manner that permits timely access to appropriate evaluation expertise. This vehicle also supports client missions in the above-mentioned countries with an accessible evaluation mechanism.