Subject: Special Notice to All Foreign Assistance Recipients
Special Notice Posted
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- Place of performance
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About this opportunity
The Special Notice issued by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) pertains to a legal development involving a temporary restraining order (TRO) against multiple federal entities, including the Department of State, USAID, and the Office of Management and Budget. The TRO stems from a court case involving the AIDS Vaccine Coalition and Global Health Council, which challenged recent executive actions related to foreign assistance. The legal order specifically prevents the named defendants from suspending, pausing, or preventing the obligation of foreign assistance funds for contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, and loans that existed as of January 19, 2025. The court's ruling aims to maintain continuity of existing foreign assistance programs and prevent unilateral interruption of ongoing international aid initiatives.
The Special Notice indicates that the restrained defendants are required to take specific actions, including providing written notice to all recipients of existing foreign assistance contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements. By February 18, 2025, these agencies must file a status report demonstrating compliance with the court order. The TRO explicitly allows the defendants to continue enforcing the terms of existing contracts and grants, ensuring that current international aid programs can proceed without disruption. While the notice does not outline new contractor eligibility criteria or introduce specific program opportunities, it serves as a critical communication to foreign assistance recipients about the legal protections surrounding their current agreements. USAID has committed to providing additional guidance regarding the TRO's implementation in subsequent communications.
Notice text
On February 13, 2025, the Court hearing the case of AIDS Vaccine Coalition v. U.S. Department of State and Global Health Council v. Trump entered a temporary restraining order against the Department of State, USAID, and OMB, that contains the following operative language:
“Consistent with the reasoning above, it is hereby ORDERED that Defendants Marco Rubio, Peter Marocco, Russell Vought, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the Office of Management and Budget (the “Restrained Defendants”) and their agents are temporarily enjoined from enforcing or giving effect to Sections 1, 5, 7, 8, and 9 of Dep’t of State, Memorandum, 25 STATE 6828 (Jan. 24, 2025) and any other directives that implement Sections 3(a) and 3(c) of Executive Order Number 14169, “Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid” (Jan. 20, 2025), including by:
• suspending, pausing, or otherwise preventing the obligation or disbursement of appropriated foreign-assistance funds in connection with any contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, loans, or other federal foreign assistance award that was in existence as of January 19, 2025; or
• issuing, implementing, enforcing, or otherwise giving effect to terminations, suspensions, or stop-work orders in connection with any contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, loans, or other federal foreign assistance award that was in existence as of January 19, 2025.
“It is further hereby ORDERED that nothing in this order shall prohibit the Restrained Defendants from enforcing the terms of contracts or grants.
“It is further hereby ORDERED that the Restrained Defendants shall take all steps necessary to effectuate this order and shall provide written notice of this order to all recipients of existing contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements for foreign assistance.
“It is further hereby ORDERED that the Restrained Defendants shall file a status report by February 18, 2025, apprising the Court of the status of their compliance with this order, including by providing a copy of the written notice described above.”
We will provide further guidance on this TRO as soon as we are able to do so.
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