IQCs
U.S. government agencies can quickly engage Partners’ services through a simplified procurement process using the following indefinite quantity contracts (IQCs).
- BRDG: Building Recovery and Reform Through Democratic
Governance
2005-2010 with Chemonics International
Fragile and failed states not only jeopardize their citizens’ livelihoods, but also pose a threat to international security and create space for various illicit activities. Chemonics recognizes that any effort to rehabilitate these states must begin with improved governance and better democracy. Only then can states effectively tackle development challenges such as poor economic growth, disease, and environmental degradation. Through BRDG, Chemonics is reinforcing and promoting state legitimacy, enhancing public management and administration, and seeking policy and institutional reform — all building blocks for a better future.
- ENGAGE: Encouraging Global Anticorruption and Good
Governance Efforts
2008-2013 with QED
Corruption forms a barrier between the public and the
institutions that are supposed to be accountable to it. The growing recognition
of the harmful effects of corruption, both grand and petty, on international
development efforts has culminated in the Encouraging Global Anticorruption and
Good Governance Efforts IQC, which supports innovative anticorruption measures,
transparency, integrity, and accountability around the world. With its broad
scope of work and ease of use, ENGAGE is designed specifically to help USAID
missions and other agencies working through USAID (such as the Department of
State and the Millennium Challenge Corporation) to rapidly procure short- and
long-term technical assistance and other resources necessary to help partner
countries to curb corruption in economic, political, and social service
sectors.
- PLACE: Prosperity, Livelihoods, and Conserving Ecosystems
2006-2011 with ARD, Inc.
PLACE is USAID’s primary mechanism for the
promotion of transformational development and integrated landscape management
through sustained, increased biodiversity conservation and natural resource
management. Through PLACE, ARD and its consortium members provide targeted
support to USAID missions, offices, and partners in five primary natural
resource management categories, including biodiversity conservation
(terrestrial, freshwater, and marine), sustainable forestry, sustainable
tourism, ecologically sustainable agriculture, and the provision of ecosystem
services.
- Decentralization/Local Governance Strengthening
Technical Assistance
with AECOM
This IQC provides: A) decentralization and participatory
government and B) public management and administration services. USAID promotes
decentralization of government, although decentralization comes with many challenges. Many local governments lack the experience
and capacity to carry out new functions and to respond to citizen expectations
and demands that have been heightened by efforts to mobilize citizen
involvement or by the promises made in the decentralization effort. Lack of authority over resources makes local
officials reluctant to raise citizen expectations by creating mechanisms for
citizen participation, and many local officials find that involving citizens is
time consuming, costly, and results in conflict. Local authority may be unclear and local
officials may be ill informed of their responsibilities. Regular town meetings are often closed to
the public; hiring and procurement practices are not always open or objectively
competed; dissemination of key information such as budget and annual financial
reports is limited.
- ICRP: Instability, Crisis and Recovery Program
2004- 2009 with AMEX
AMEX is the small business prime contractor for this IQC. Under this IQC, the AMEX Consortium supports USAID’s Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA), Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation (CMM), regional offices, and field missions through task orders in the following areas: Early Warning; Capacity-Building; Security Sector Reform; Conflict Prevention; Peace Processes; Good Governance; Conflict Sensitive- Economic Development; and Technical and Logistical Support.
As AMEX is the small business holder of the ICRP IQC, the task order CO has the authority to place task orders directly with AMEX without having to go through the competitive process with the five IQC awardees.
For additional information, please contact Dina Dukhqan, Director of International Programs (ddukhqan@partnersglobal.org)
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