Startup activities on the largest-ever U.S. Agency for International Development award are locked in a holding pattern.
The Partnership for Supply Chain Management has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in further objection to decisions surrounding a USAID award worth almost $10 billion. The Global Health Supply Chain — Procurement and Supply Management project will coordinate the supply and distribution of commodities like antiretroviral medicines for HIV and AIDS, insecticide-treated bed nets to combat malaria, condoms, contraceptives, and vaccines.
The partnership — a group of aid organizations led by John Snow Inc. that coordinates health commodities distribution on behalf of the U.S. government — protested USAID’s April 2015 decision to award the contract to a new consortium that includes Chemonics International. The Government Accountability Office denied the protest, so PfSCM is taking further legal action.