Contract Mechanisms

Support That Augments Rapid Transition (START) IQC

In September 2012, the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Office of Transition Initia-tives (OTI) awarded Democracy International an Indefinite Quantity Contract (IQC) to support U.S. foreign policy objectives through targeted, short‐term assistance in priority countries in transition or crisis. The combined contract ceiling for the START ICQ is $30 million with a period of performance that runs through September 2017.

Under START, DI will establish, staff, manage, operate, and support a flexible, rapid‐response mechanism to provide management, operational, and technical support to OTI’s goals and prior-ities in Washington and around the world. DI will provide a range of services for OTI programs under the contract, including logistical support, technical assistance, and activity implementation. OTI established the START mechanism to provide rapid, flexible support services and short-term program management in countries where U.S. involvement can make a critical difference in the trajectory of a transition. DI and its partners, the QED Group and XL Associates, have extensive experience working in complex and transitioning environments, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, El Salvador, Haiti, Indonesia, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, South Sudan, Sudan, Timor-Leste, and Tunisia, among others.

Mission Oriented Business Integrated Services (MOBIS)

DI holds U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule 874 for Mission Oriented Business Integrated Services (MOBIS). We hold the SIN 874-1 for MOBIS Consulting Services and SIN 874-3 for MOBIS Survey Services.

Elections and Political Processes (EPP)

In September 2005, USAID awarded the firm a five-year IQC for Elections and Political Processes. Under the contract, Democracy International can provide a full range of technical assistance in support of election administration, political party development, citizen participation in political processes and technical leadership in elections and political processes. DI leads a team comprising RTI International, the League of Women Voters, the QED Group, Charney Research, Civic Action Strategies and the Pollworker Institute. The combined ceiling on this contract is $400 million.

Democracy and Governance Analytical Services (DGAS III)

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded Democracy International (DI), along with four other organizations, a five-year Indefinite Quantity Contract with a combined ceiling of $75 million to support the Agency’s democracy and governance work worldwide.

DI supports USAID’s central bureaus, field missions, regional bureaus, and other USG agencies around the world by conducting democracy and governance assessments and evaluations in specific countries, designing democracy and governance programs and strategies, and carrying out applied research and writing projects. The evaluations cover the full scope of USAID’s programs in democracy and governance and will inform the design and implementation of USAID-funded democracy and governance strategies and programs. Such services will ensure that USAID’s democracy and governance strategies, programs and activities, and monitoring and evaluation plans are based on in-depth and well-informed analysis, cutting-edge research, valid data, and best practices in the field of democracy and governance.

DI’s approach focuses on bringing innovative ideas and fresh perspectives of practitioners and opinion researchers to the new challenges of effective impact evaluation, use of technology, security sector reform, and disarmament, demobilization and reintegration. DI’s team includes The Carter Center, Charney Research, Chemonics International, Global Business Solutions, and Planning and Learning Technologies (Pal-Tech).