LONDON — The United States’ biggest development contractor, Chemonics, has landed in London, United Kingdom, in the hopes of winning more contracts from the Department for International Development and Foreign & Commonwealth Office.
The American development giant, which employs 5,000 staff across 100 countries, looks set to shake things up for British aid contractors, a number of which have been left reeling after DFID introduced tough reforms to crack down on “profiteering,” cronyism, and unethical behavior.
“We heard the message coming from [the British government] around seeking a different approach to development from their suppliers, and that call really resonated with us and we felt we could actually deliver on a number of [those] areas,” Jeff Wuorinen, who heads up Chemonics’ new U.K. division, told Devex.