U.S. Department of State
A $518,000 contract to provide 1,200 bullet-resistant vests to the Government of Pakistan was awarded to the Alexandria, Va.-based Surveillance Equipment Group, Inc., a company operated by former U.S. and South American military and intelligence officials. The threat-level III vests are made to sustain shots from ammunition as deadly as .44 magnum hollow-point bullets. The cost of the competitively awarded State Dept. contract, which was revealed on Monday, includes shipping to the Port of Karachi, Pakistan. (Solicitation #PR1120395; Contract Award #SGE50011F0175)
The State Dept. awarded a $61.4 million contract to CHS Middle East LLC to “establish a network of Contractor operated facilities in three regional support areas” across Iraq. The project is specific to the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, where the responsibility to provide health care to about 17,000 personnel working under the authority of the U.S. Ambassador, “which includes U.S. Government civilians, military and local national employees; and supporting Contractors (U.S., third country, and local national),” will transfer from the U. S. Department of Defense to the State Dept.
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
USAID is recruiting candidates for Senior Acquisition & Assistance Specialist to oversee the agency’s $1.2 billion portfolio of contract awards being implemented in Nigeria. The annual salary range for the position is $71,674 to $110,104. The selected candidate will be stationed in Abuja, Nigeria. USAID will offer a two-year contract, with three renewable one-year options up to a maximum five-year period. (Solicitation #620-11-011)
The development of new and improved methods for identifying the prevalence of poverty among households is the goal of USAID’s Poverty Assessment Tools III (PAT III) initiative. The agency says the five-year project will help U.S. missions and partner organizations to better estimate “the share of their clients who are ‘very poor’,” according to the Statement of Work. (RFP #APP-EGAT-11-000003). The agency says that previously developed PATs must be “updated and improved.” It did not disclose the estimated cost of the project. (Solicitation #APP-EGAT-11-000003)
U.S. Trade & Development Agency (USTDA)
The proposal deadline to conduct a feasibility study on the upgrade of Pakistani urban bus fleets to liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) has been extended to June 15. As previously reported (Monitor, 04/07/2011), USTDA is offering a $482,000 grant to carry out the study and market survey as the first step toward integrating “LPG into the transportation sector in and surrounding seven major Pakistani cities.”
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