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    The largest-ever USAID award is under protest

    A group of development implementers is protesting the U.S. Agency for International Development's $10.5 billion health supply chain award — the agency's largest ever. The Government Accountability Office has 100 days to make a decision.

    By Michael Igoe // 05 May 2015

    A partnership of government contractors including John Snow, Inc. is protesting the U.S. Agency for International Development’s decision to award its largest-ever contract to a group led by development consulting firm Chemonics International.

    The Global Health Supply Chain — Procurement and Supply Management project is an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract, by far the largest in a suite of contracts worth up to $10.5 billion over the next eight years — and USAID’s largest-ever single award, according to an agency representative. The program is meant to support the delivery and distribution of a range of global health commodities used to prevent and to treat illnesses, including HIV and AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis.

    USAID announced its award decision April 17, effectively unseating JSI, one of the agency’s largest implementing partners, from its leadership of USAID’s health supply chain programs.

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      Michael Igoe is a Senior Reporter with Devex, based in Washington, D.C. He covers U.S. foreign aid, global health, climate change, and development finance. Prior to joining Devex, Michael researched water management and climate change adaptation in post-Soviet Central Asia, where he also wrote for EurasiaNet. Michael earned his bachelor's degree from Bowdoin College, where he majored in Russian, and his master’s degree from the University of Montana, where he studied international conservation and development.

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