SEGIR Global, Business, Trade and Investment (GBTI) II Indefinite Quantity Contract

CARANA is pleased to continue collaborating with USAID on the Support for Economic Growth and Institutional Reform (SEGIR) GBTI II. CARANA and our subcontractors will provide a full range of services to USAID/Washington and USAID Missions throughout the world. Our support will encompass all major areas of business, trade, and investment development and reform – particularly on devising and implementing robust strategies to promote real economic growth, reduce poverty, graduate transitional countries from aid to trade, promote open competitive markets, develop the private sector, and mobilize private financing. CARANA’s GBTI II consortium includes a significant number of woman-owned, minority-owned, Veteran-owned, and disadvantaged small businesses, academic institutions, not-for profit organizations, and other private firms that will provide specific technical expertise. CARANA is also a subcontractor to The Mitchell Group, a minority-owned small business that is a GBTI II contract recipient.

GBTI II Fact Sheet (PDF, 85 KB)

USAID Cognizant Technical Officer: Ms. Theresa Stoll, 202-712-0924
USAID Activity Manager and Senior Advisor: Mark Karns, 202-712-5516
CARANA Contact: Melissa Brinkerhoff, 703-778-3227

As a subcontractor to the IRIS Center at the University of Maryland, CARANA has been awarded the SEGIR-CLIR IQC. SEGIR-CLIR task orders are intended to focus on a range of inter-related categories of commercial law and related institutions, including: property rights, commercial dispute resolution, competition policy, consumer protection, regulatory policies and practices, corporate governance, bankruptcy, public procurement, accounting, e-commerce, and contract law. The type of constraints to be addressed by SEGIR-CLIR include not only inadequacies in law “on the books” but also deficiencies in the ways that governmental organizations uphold and enforce the law, non-government organizations interact with or use the law, and the underlying connections between norms and values present in society and the formal legal system. Missions can use these specialized resources to procure various services, including short and long term technical assistance, training, analysis via assessments and diagnostics, grant management, and administration and capitalization of loan funds.

IRIS Contact: Malcolm Russell-Einhorn, 301-405-3051
CARANA Contact: Joseph Rio, 703-778-3235

Rule of Law (ROL) Indefinite Quantity Contract

As part of a team headed by Management Services for Development, Inc. (MSD), CARANA Corporation has been awarded the USAID Rule of Law IQC. The purpose of this IQC is to support transition to, and consolidation of the rule of law, and the promotion and protection of human rights throughout the world. The MSD Team includes experts in the law - criminal, civil, commercial, environmental, non-profits - and experts in strengthening legal institutions - court administrators, judicial trainers, IT and court automation, and law school administrators. Specifically, CARANA Corporation will provide anti-corruption and corporate governance expertise on this IQC.

ROL IQC Consortium (PDF, 168 KB)
ROL IQC Fact Sheet (PDF, 105 KB)

MSD Project Manager: Bertra McGann, 202-537-7410
CARANA Contact: Joseph Rio, 703-778-3235

CARANA is serving as a subcontractor to RTI under the recently awarded Decentralization/Local Governance Strengthening Technical Assistance Indefinite Quantity Contract, which provides services to USAID’s Office of Democracy and Governance. This global, five-year contract award has a ceiling of $500 million and provides technical assistance services to USAID Missions in the areas of decentralization, participatory government and public management. CARANA will provide critical linkages between democratic governance and economic growth activities at the local level, particularly in fragile, failing and failed states.

RTI Project Manager: Gary Bland, 202-728-2049 ext.2049
CARANA Contact: Melissa Brinkerhoff, 703-778-3227

EGAT Information and Communications Technology Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA)

CARANA is part of a team lead by SRA International that was selected by USAID to deliver ICT technical services for Missions and USAID offices worldwide. This contract, sponsored by the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) unit of EGAT’s Office of Infrastructure and Engineering, is designed to provide a broad range of services to expand the benefits of ICT to USAID’s cooperating countries. The BPA is designed to be accessible to Missions and USAID offices globally and offers a wide variety of solutions to USAID, the Department of State, and Department of Commerce including: delivery of ICT expert services; ICT project design, development, and implementation; telecommunications sector reform interventions; support for last mile initiatives; development of public/private partnerships; support for “imbedding” ICT into core Mission programs; ICT sector capacity building; and general support for US foreign policy objectives and processes worldwide.

USAID Project Manager: Aimee David, 202-712-0183
SRA International Project Manager: Ralph Parkinson, 703-387-4616
CARANA Contact: Robert Otto, 703-778-3242

As a subcontractor to Nexant, Inc, CARANA Corporation has been awarded the Energy & Environment II Indefinite Quantity Contract. This USAID IQC provides energy sector technical and advisory assistance worldwide to promote economic growth and reduce long-term threats to the global environment. The IQC will provide short and long-term advisory services and technical assistance in the areas of energy sector reform, utility management, energy efficiency, renewable energy, and technology transfer. The primary goal of the IQC program is to promote economic growth and reduce long-term threats to the global environment through the more efficient generation, transmission, distribution, and use of energy in selected countries.

Nexant Contact: Russ Profozich, 202-974-0611
CARANA Contact: Robert Otto, 703-778-3242

CARANA is member of Abt Associates' consortium for the RAISE Plus Indefinite Quantity Contract. The IQC is is a broad based, multi-faceted, USAID field support mechanism to provide short and long-term technical assistance that promotes the systemic shifts necessary to achieve more competitive and sustainable agricultural and rural sectors in developing countries. RAISE Plus focuses on environmentally sustainable, market driven development of food and cash crops, livestock, forests, fisheries, tourism, wildlife, and agribusinesses. CARANA’s collaboration in premised on our ability to provide short, medium, or long-term expertise at the level of sector, industry, value chain, commodity or theme with the goal of accelerating economic development, raising rural incomes, creating wealth, and reducing hunger.

Abt Associates IQC Manager: Gordon Straub, 301-718-3193
CARANA Contact: Joyjit Deb Roy, 703-778-3222
Website: www.raiseplus.com

Under a subcontract to EPOS Health Consultants USA, CARANA will provide grant advisory services for projects in Eastern Europe and Central Asia under this indefinite quantity contract.

EPOS Contact: Hannah Deutsch, 011-49-6172-930-370
CARANA Contact: Roman Ponos, 703-778-3223

As part of Coffey International Development Ltd.'s consortium for this framework contract, CARANA will provide a range of support services in economics for development; private sector development issues in developing countries; policy cycle management; and economic and private sector development training.

Coffey Contact: Laura Collinson, 011-44-118-9566066
CARANA Contact: Joseph Rio, 703-778-3235