Democracy International, Inc.

Democracy International, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation based in Bethesda, Maryland, delivers governance, democracy promotion, electoral integrity, conflict prevention, and peacebuilding services to USAID and the Department of State as a prime contractor exclusively — the firm competes full-and-open and does not operate as a subcontractor.

The company's federal footprint centers on USAID's international development and transition-initiatives work. Top customers by potential value are USAID's Bureau for Management Office of the Assistant Administrator (10 awards, $6.05 billion combined ceiling), USAID El Salvador ($802.8 million across 2 awards), USAID central operations ($590.7 million across 15 awards), and USAID Mexico ($250.1 million across 2 awards), accounting for 94% of combined potential value across all awards. By award count, the concentration spreads wider: USAID (15 awards), USAID Bureau for Management ($10 awards), USAID Bangladesh (5 awards), the Department of State Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs (4 awards), and GSA Federal Acquisition Service (3 awards). Recent contract work includes a $15.8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee task order from USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives under the Programming for Prevention and Peacebuilding (P4P2) IDIQ for recruiting and deployment of conflict-mitigation and peacebuilding experts (notice of termination for convenience issued; period of performance ended February 10, 2025); a $5.56 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract with the U.S. Mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina for electoral integrity support (ultimate completion February 11, 2025); a $13.2 million cost-plus-award-fee definitive contract with the U.S. Mission in Kosovo for a social contract activity introducing sustainable public participation practices across municipalities (notice of termination for convenience issued; ultimate completion December 14, 2026); and multiple cooperative agreements as prime recipient under USAID's Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas program (CFDA 98.001), including a $3.325 million five-year award beginning October 1, 2024, with the U.S. Mission in Central Asia for civil society strengthening in Kyrgyzstan, a $1.056 million five-year award with the U.S. Mission in Bangladesh for responsive local governance, a $4.9 million five-year award with the U.S. Mission in Libya for democratic institution-building, and prior-year cooperative agreements in Tunisia, Armenia, Malawi, Ghana, and Bangladesh. Additionally, Democracy International holds a $339,170 delivery order under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule from the National Assessment Governing Board (Total Small Business set-aside; completion December 15, 2027) for civics framework content advisory services.

Democracy International's parent IDVs reflect its USAID specialization. The company holds a seat on the OASIS+ Total Small Business set-aside IDIQ (GSA Federal Acquisition Service, awarded December 19, 2024, through December 18, 2029, no specified ceiling) and operates under five USAID indefinite-delivery vehicles: the Programming for Prevention and Peacebuilding (P4P2) IDIQ (10 task orders, $5.4 million combined potential value), the Elections IDIQ (7 task orders, $5.3 million), the International Rule of Law Technical Services vehicle (6 task orders, $12.1 million), the USAID Monitoring and Evaluation vehicle (6 task orders, $5.5 million), and a single-award USAID Central America Regional Support Services (CARSS) IDIQ with a ceiling of $800 million (notice of termination for convenience issued; ultimate completion February 26, 2025). The company also held single-award IDIQs for Mexico ($250 million ceiling; terminated for convenience) and a multi-agency SWIFT 6 (Support Which Implements Fast Transition 6) vehicle for USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives ($5 billion ceiling; ultimate completion February 26, 2025).

Activity has remained sparse by award count but voluminous by ceiling value. The source captures 82 prime awards spanning 2005 to 2026, with peaks in 2023 (8 awards) and 2024 (6 awards), one award in 2026, and only 2 awards per year in 2021 and 2022. Combined potential value stands at $8.2 billion, though only $341.7 million (4%) has been obligated across all awards. Five awards with combined potential value of $13.5 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. By NAICS code, the vendor's work clusters in All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (39 awards) and Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services (15 awards), with primary PSC coding under Support Professional: Other (31 awards).

Service Contract Inventory reporting shows minimal invoiced activity: zero SCI-reportable invoiced revenue across FY2022–FY2025 despite 16 SCI records (15 as prime, 1 as sub), and negligible FTE attribution (0.2 FTEs in FY2024, 0.0 FTEs in other years). This reflects the fact that many of Democracy International's awards are either fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee, or cost-plus-award-fee structures that may not trigger labor-hour-based SCI reporting, or periods of performance that have not yet commenced or have concluded. The vendor does not subcontract work on prime contracts captured in SCI; all 82 prime awards reflect internal delivery.