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Doing Business with USAID

Acquisition and Assistance

The USAID Business site is your one-stop place for finding important information to get you started. Contracts are awarded primarily for technical assistance but also for commodities and/or equipment, transportation services and occasionally, construction. Grants are awarded for a variety of programs --- some recurring (e.g., Food for Peace grants and other grant programs exclusively for Private Voluntary Organizations) --- and some for unique non-recurring programs. All contracts and grants issued ultimately support objectives of that part of the U.S. foreign assistance program managed by USAID.

USAID utilizes various acquisition and assistance instruments to implement its activities. Contracts, grants, cooperative agreements and purchase orders are some of the instruments which are negotiated and signed worldwide by USAID. These instruments provide a variety of commodities and technical assistance to support the attainment of the agency's objectives. Acquisition refers to obtaining goods and services, through various types of contracts, for the use or benefit of the Agency. Assistance refers to transferring funds (or other valuables) from USAID to another party for the implementation of programs which will contribute to the public good through the furtherance of the objectives of the Foreign Assistance Act.

OFFICIAL SERVICE CONTRACT INVENTORY Please find USAID’s Service Contract Inventory Report which provides information on service contract actions in excess of $25,000 taken in FY 2010. This information comes from the U.S. Federal Procurement Data System—Next Generation (FPDS-NG), in accordance with Section 743 of Division C of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-117). You will find information organized by service category to show how contracted resources are distributed throughout the Agency. Guidance issued on November 5, 2010 by the Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) regarding this report can be found here . View the Service Contract Actions information below: Fiscal Year 2011 USAID Service Contract Inventory Summary (PDF 252 KB) USAID Small Business Service Contract Inventory Summary (PDF 214 KB) Fiscal Year 2010 USAID Service Contract Inventory Summary (PDF 134 KB) USAID Small Business Service Contract Inventory Summary (PDF 195 KB) USAID Service Contract Analysis (Word Doc. 131 KB)

About one half of the contract and grant awards made by USAID are negotiated, issued and administered by our Washington D.C. Office of Procurement. The other half are negotiated, issued and administered by Contracting and Grant staff located at USAID Missions worldwide. Information regarding the vast majority of our worldwide business opportunities is accessible through this site.

In addition to business opportunities, this site provides all the regulatory and policy information needed for detailed searches to specific questions as well as general information especially helpful to those who are new to working with USAID.

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