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Current Contract Vehicles

  • United States Agency for International Development
    • USAID | Health Policy Initiative IQC
      9/2005-9/2010
    • Project SEARCH IQC
      2/2007-2/2012
    • TASC3 Global Health
      2/2007-2/2012
    • Tuberculosis (TB) IQC
      7/2009-7/2014
    • ADVANCE IQC
      9/2007-9/2012
  • The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
    • Local Fund Agent (LFA) Framework Contract
      1/2009-1/2013
    • Global Fund Operations and Grant Management Support IQC
      10/2007-9/2010

Government agencies and other organizations can access technical assistance and additional services through several task order contract vehicles. These indefinite quantity contracts (IQCs) or framework contracts allow easy access to the services of technically and financially pre-qualified firms, to facilitate a rapid response to short- and long-term needs.

Current Futures Group contract vehicles are both global and regional in scope and include those awarded by USAID, and the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Futures Group has a solid track record managing large, complex projects with significant overseas activities, such as the USAID | Health Policy Initiative Task Order 1, POLICY I and II projects , and the Social Marketing for Change projects (SOMARC I, II, and III). Our experience on these global projects, combined with a strong history of handling task orders under IQCs, demonstrates our ability to effectively respond to, manage, and implement multiple task orders simultaneously. Some of the past IQCs/framework contracts we have held in recent years as a prime contractor include USAID Private Sector Project (PSP) and USAID TASC2 Media/Publics Relations; and as a subcontractor: USAID TASC2 Global Health, CDC Global AIDS Program (GAP), and EC Lot 8 Health.

In response to task order requests, we present practical approaches, assemble experienced teams of staff and consultants, and provide efficient pricing. Under the USAID IQCs, task orders may run up to three years beyond the IQC end-date if the task order is awarded prior the IQC end-date. For further information, contact our Business Development Manager.

United States Agency for International Development

USAID | Health Policy Initiative IQC 2005-2010

Futures Group IQC Director: Tom Goliber

The USAID | Health Policy Initiative (HPI) IQC was awarded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Global Health Bureau. Via global leadership and field-level programming, HPI helps foster an improved enabling environment for health, especially HIV/AIDS, family planning/reproductive health, maternal health, and infectious diseases.

Futures Group’s available services under HPI include policy formulation, implementation, and monitoring; advocacy, network formation and strengthening; multisectoral engagement; operational barriers analysis; strategic planning; costing and resource allocation, and projection of epidemic and population trends. Futures Group brings additional expertise to the HPI crosscutting issues of gender, poverty and equity, and stigma and discrimination.

Futures Group currently implements five task orders under the HPI IQC:

  • HPI Task Order 1 (Global; 2005-2010)  HPI Task Order 1 At-A-Glance
  • South Africa (2007-2012)
  • PASCA (2008-2013)
  • Tanzania (2008-2012)
  • Peru (2007-2009)

Futures Group’s HPI team includes active subcontractor partners, as well as other collaborating organizations that may be brought on as subcontractors under a new task order.

Subcontractors

  • Centre for Development and Population Activities
  • Cultural Practice, LLC
  • Futures Institute
  • Social Sectors Development Strategies, Inc.
  • White Ribbon Alliance
  • World Council of Religions for Peace

Collaborating Partners

  • AIDS Responsibility Project
  • Family Health International
  • Johns Hopkins Bloomburg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs
  • John Snow, Inc.
  • QED Group, LLC
  • Sibley International Corp.

Visit the USAID | Health Policy Initiative website at HealthPolicyInitiative.com , and the USAID HPI IQC website at ghiqc.usaid.gov/hpi for additional information and resources.

Project SEARCH IQC 2005-2011

Futures Group IQC Director: Farley Cleghorn

Project SEARCH (Supporting Evaluation and Research to Combat HIV/AIDS) supports HIV/AIDS research and evaluation in developing countries. Managed by the USAID Global Health Bureau and made possible through the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the goal of the project is to carry out research and evaluation to improve the coverage, quality, and effectiveness of HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment programs worldwide, and to strengthen local capacity in HIV/AIDS research and public health evaluations through training and in-country collaborations.

The Futures Group team includes a talented set of subcontractors, including several small businesses:

  • Cloudburst Consulting Group
  • Cultural Practice
  • University of Washington Center for AIDS and STD, representing the National Centers for AIDS Research Global AIDS Research Consortium(C-GARC)
  • Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
  • Futures Institute

Project SEARCH may be used by USAID’s central Bureau of Global Health or by USAID Missions to

  • Develop and evaluate models for HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment programs;
  • Carry out public health evaluations to investigate the effectiveness of interventions and integrate successful results into public health guidelines;
  • Identify and disseminate best practices to improve program efficiency and effectiveness;
  • Develop national and international standards and indicators to monitor and evaluate programming;
  • Conduct analyses of clinical, community- level, and population-based epidemiological, demographic, and surveillance data;
  • Test program implementation models, including research on practical applications of new technologies and intervention models in resource-poor settings;
  • Carry out feasibility and community preparedness studies and policy analyses; and
  • Develop local capacity in applied research and ethical procedures by increasing the technical skills of developing country investigators and providing technical assistance to in-country institutions.

Futures Group currently implements the SEARCH Nigeria Data Analysis and Triangulation for Evaluation (DATE) Task Order (2009-2010). Visit the SEARCH website at projectsearchiqc.com, and the USAID SEARCH IQC website at ghiqc.usaid.gov/projsearch for more information.

TASC3 Global Health 2007-2012

Prime Contractor: Management Sciences for Health (MSH)

Technical Assistance Support Contract 3 (TASC3) Global Health IQC covers global health needs including, but not limited to, policy reform, behavior change, monitoring and evaluation, capacity building, system strengthening, and commodity system management and development. The mechanism allows USAID Missions and Bureaus to easily access quality technical assistance and support for their activities in maternal and child health, nutrition, infectious diseases, and HIV/AIDS. Futures Group brings to TASC3 our depth of health sector expertise and institutional knowledge in such areas as building local capacity of civil society and governmental organizations, forging public-private partnerships, policy barriers analysis, evidence-based advocacy in support of policy development, and policy implementation.Futures Group currently works on the following TASC3 task orders:

  • AWARE II (Support for Investing in People for Health Action in West Africa Region; 2009-2012)
  • Malawi Community-based Family Planning and HIV/AIDS Services (2007-2011)
  • Grant Management Solutions (2007-2011)

For more information on TASC3 Global, please the USAID TASC3 website at ghiqc.usaid.gov/tasc3.

Tuberculosis (TB) IQC 2009-2014

Prime Contractor: University Research Corporation (URC)

The goal of USAID’s TB program is to halve TB prevalence and death rates in USAID assisted countries by 2015. This contract mechanism provides global technical leadership for the introduction of new interventions and to build sustainable TB programs at the country level. This TB IQC will implement and scale up all components of the STOP TB Strategy, including interventions to slow the emergence and spread of MDR-TB and XDR-TB. Resulting task orders will support country efforts to build sustainable TB control programs that achieve USAID’s and the STOP TB Partnership’s targets.

As a subcontractor on the URC team, Futures Group brings its significant experience implementing infectious disease programs, including for TB, and we are currently a partner organization within the Stop TB Partnership. We have developed the capacity of national and regional governments to plan, implement, and monitor TB services including improved detection, diagnosis, treatment, and care. Futures Group has supported efforts to overcome attitudinal barriers toward the use of new TB detection, treatment, and care methods, and produced a TB/HIV Advocacy Training Manual.

ADVANCE IQC 2007-2012

Prime Contractor: Nathan Associates

Futures Group is a subcontractor to Nathan Associates on the US State Department/US Agency for International Development’s ASEAN Development Vision to Advance National Cooperation for Economic Integration (ADVANCE) IQC. Our niche role on the Nathan Associates team is to support public health-related activities, which thus far has included technical assistance in pandemic influenza preparedness.

The ADVANCE IQC provides support to the ASEAN Secretariat and works with ASEAN member states’ governments, civil society, and the private sector to achieve regional integration and sustainable economic development. Target areas include economic development and reform, trade and investment, promotion of good governance, and public health.

Under the ASEAN-US Technical Assistance and Training Facility, Phase II task order, Futures Group helped respond to the outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) caused by the H5N1 and affecting many ASEAN member countries. Futures Group designed and implemented infectious disease and pandemic preparedness activities and placed a pandemic preparedness consultant at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta, Indonesia for one year to provide ongoing technical assistance to the Secretariat Coordinator for AI and various units to coordinate, monitor and communicate on influenza pandemic and avian influenza related activities.

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Local Fund Agent (LFA) Framework Contract 2009-2010

Prime Contractor: Prime Contractor: PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Futures Group provides ongoing health and monitoring and evaluation advisory support complementing PwC’s financial advisory services on LFA contracts with the Global Fund. LFAs assess the capacity of principle recipients to manage the implementation of activities funded under Global Fund grants and provide ongoing information on issues which might affect grant performance.

Futures Group works with PwC as the LFA in Tanzania (including Zanzibar), Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Eritrea, Indonesia, and Vietnam.

Global Fund Operations and Grant Management Support IQC 2007-2010

Futures Group is a pre-qualified Global Fund contractor providing consulting services for operations and grant management support in East, West, and Central Africa. The purpose of this three-year Indefinite Quantity Contract (IQC) is to supplement the capacity of the Global Fund secretariat to manage grant risks, identify challenges to implementation and oversight, and document grant processes and activities.

Under this IQC, Futures Group provided technical assistance to strengthen the Sierra Leone Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM), and facilitated development of its 12-month action plan.