Crossboundary LLC

Crossboundary LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based for-profit limited liability company, delivers development finance advisory, transaction structuring, investment facilitation, and staffing services to federal development agencies as both a prime contractor (42% of recent awards) and subcontractor (58% of recent awards), competing without set-aside designation in full-and-open competitions across emerging-market and climate finance portfolios.

The company's customer concentration is acute and geographic-mission specific. The International Development Finance Corporation (IDFC) alone accounts for 22 awards valued at $184.9 million in combined potential value—approximately 90% of the vendor's total federal pipeline—with the remainder distributed across USAID regional offices (28 awards across multiple USAID entities), the Export-Import Bank (3 awards, $15 million), the Millennium Challenge Corporation ($1.1 million), and smaller civilian agencies including the U.S. Mission in Mozambique and South Africa. The top five customer agencies by potential value represent 100% of tracked pipeline, a concentration that mirrors IDFC's dominance by award count. Crossboundary operates without minority, HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other SBA set-aside certifications; all awards reflect competitive procurement against unrestricted vendor pools.

IDFC work anchors Crossboundary's prime capability portfolio. The vendor holds a $100 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with IDFC—awarded September 2023, running through September 2028—covering international and domestic staffing and recruiting across five service areas: management consulting, investment advisory, financial advisory and management, economic analysis, and program implementation support. Against this IDC, IDFC has issued delivery orders including a $16.6 million Africa Investment Advisors Staffing order (March 2026, labor hours pricing, South Africa performance), a $11.9 million Oil and Gas Environmental & Social Consultants order (July 2026, five-year completion through July 2031), a $6 million Transaction Advisory Services order (January 2025), and multiple smaller orders for environmental and social specialists, Latin America contractor hiring, Ukraine and Poland project support, and risk-assessment services. Crossboundary also holds two additional IDCs with IDFC: a $7.5 million Direct Equity Consulting Services contract (December 2023–December 2028, single award) and a $5 million Private Equity Investment Advisors Services contract (November 2021, multiple award, completion November 2025). Delivery orders under the latter two vehicles include environmental due-diligence ($1 million definitive contract, June 2023), Latin America catalytic-batching pilot work ($155.8 thousand, July 2023), and India healthcare market mapping ($129.2 thousand, February 2023). Outside IDFC, Crossboundary holds a $1.5 million GSA Schedule contract (June 2024–June 2029, 13 labor categories spanning administrative roles at $101.70/hr through senior legal advisory at $469.06/hr, no cleared positions offered) and a $1.1 million Millennium Challenge Corporation definitive contract for blended-finance consultancy services (August 2024, base plus two option years, time-and-materials structure). The vendor also holds two Ex-Im Bank BPAs under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule with ceilings of $7.5 million each: one for loan-underwriting due diligence and analysis (February 2026, completion January 2031) and one for related activities in labor hours and labor-inclusive pricing (January 2026, same completion date).

Activity trajectory shows volatile concentration risk. Awards per year climbed from seven in 2022 to 33 in 2024, then dropped to five in 2025 and recovered to seven in 2026, with the source current as of mid-September 2026. Six prime and sub awards (combined potential value $13.7 million) complete within the next twenty-four months, presenting modest recompete exposure relative to the IDFC backlog but signaling potential pipeline volatility given the 2024 spike.

Crossboundary operates predominantly as a subcontractor to large development contractors. Across 48 sub-awards, the vendor subcontracts primarily to DAI Global LLC (20+ sub tasks spanning Prosper Africa Trade and Investment activity transaction support, deal facilitation, investment landscape assessments, and trade-and-investment facilitation across Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia), Deloitte Consulting LLP (West Africa Energy Program and Nigeria Power Sector Program funding, environmental and social advisory), Chemonics International (Climate Finance for Development Accelerator work in Brazil and Southern Africa), Research Triangle Institute (USAID Energy IDIQ II South Asia Regional Energy Partnership and Tanzania agricultural credit landscape), AECOM Technical Services (Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment Fund infrastructure advisory, 2025–2026), and ARD, Inc. (USAID Regional Water and Vulnerable Environment technical assistance). The vendor's sub footprint is investment advisory and transaction structuring for development-finance-focused delivery; it does not operate as a feeder subcontractor to general government services primes. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, Crossboundary disclosed zero subcontract hours, indicating in-house delivery on captured service work.

Service Contract Inventory data captures only three prime records and 24 sub records above the $150,000 reporting threshold across FY2022–FY2025, reflecting Crossboundary's primary business model via higher-value IDCs and delivery orders not routinely escalated into SCI. SCI-reported invoiced revenue totaled $370 thousand in FY2023 (1.1 FTEs) with zero invoicing in FY2024 and FY2025 on the three prime records tracked; the FY2022 sub record set shows 35.2 FTEs, FY2024 shows 15.4 FTEs across one prime and eleven sub records, and FY2025 shows zero FTEs on one prime record and six sub records. The single SCI prime-contract government-paid rate stands at $158.32/hr across all percentiles (FY2023), suggesting a standardized consulting labor rate that does not capture the full spectrum of Crossboundary's advisory-services pricing anchored to GSA Schedule rates reaching $469.06/hr for senior legal advisory roles. SCI captures less than 2% of the vendor's total federal footprint by count and a smaller fraction by value; the dataset is not representative of Crossboundary's true federal revenue or workforce scale, which are concentrated in IDC and delivery-order work spanning staffing, investment advisory, and transaction support across emerging-market development programs.

Crossboundary's corporate structure includes a subsidiary, Crossboundary East Africa LIMITED, a for-profit limited liability company registered in an East African jurisdiction, which the source does not explicitly characterize as an operating subsidiary versus a regional entity, though the naming signals geographic service-delivery capability in sub-Saharan Africa consistent with the vendor's IDFC Africa Investment Advisors and South Africa regional work.

Cross Boundary provides investment and economic development advisory services in frontier markets and conflict zones. Clients include governments, development finance institutions, private equity firms, and public policy research institutions.