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Worldwide-Selected IRG Projects
Support Which Implements Fast Transition III (Swift III), 2008–2013 |
USAID |
Under this IQC, IRG will provide the Office of Transition Intitiatives with the means to support U.S. foreign policy objectives by helping local partners advance peace and democracy in priority countries in crisis. IRG works on the ground to provide fast, flexible, short-term assistance targeted at key political transition and stabilization needs. IRG establishs, staffs, manages, operates, and supports a flexible quick-response mechanism capable of administering and implementing targeted activities. IRG works in an environment where it will be necessary to overcome significant challenges, destroyed or damaged infrastructure, lack of security, restricted movement of U.S. citizens, scarcity or lack of banking and currency exchange institutions, and the lack of adequate communication services. |
Program/Project Management Training IQC, 2005–2013 |
USAID |
Under this single-award $50,000,000 IQC, IRG will carry out a wide range of training courses for USAID staff over the next five years. This project is the Agency’s new flagship activity designed to improve the quality of its program and project management and implementation skills. Training is to be given in program and project planning and implementation, procurement planning and skills for Cognizant Technical Officers (CTOs), as well as a range of short courses and specialty courses. It also can be used to train staff with other USG agencies, such as the State Department and the Department of Defense. IRG leads a unique consortium composed of the key contractors involved with training for USAID over the last decade. IRG is the prime contractor on this project.
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Support Services to USAID’s Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA), 2000-2013 |
USAID |
Since 2000, IRG has provided the USAID Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) with full-time expert training and development staff who design, coordinate, implement, and manage the strategic development and delivery of effective training programs, staff development services, and other activities that support the achievement of the OFDA mandate. IRG has developed and delivered a comprehensive curriculum of blended and instructor-led courses aimed at improving the skills and knowledge disaster response staff need to work safely in unpredictable and often dangerous environments. As part of the contract, IRG manages the Joint Humanitarian Operations Course (JHOC) which establishes a formal learning environment for select US military leaders and planners to discuss the relationship between USAID, its partners, and the US Military in preparing participants to work collaboratively during humanitarian assistance/disaster response operations. The IRG training team received a USAID meritorious honor group award in 2005 for extraordinary responsiveness to the training needs of OFDA and its USAID and interagency partners, especially during the Iraq, Sudan, and South Asia tsunami disaster responses. |
Accelerated Microenterprise Advancement Project (AMAP), 2004–2007 |
USAID |
The promotion and practice of microenterprise development requires the appropriate tools as well as committed practitioners. IRG designed and implemented a knowledge sharing system that increased interest and commitment among a broad set of users. Specific technical requirements included reviewing, redesigning, and maintaining knowledge management websites, implementing and sustaining their core technology, building and adapting new knowledge management systems, migrating data, and integrating these tools with other AMAP activities. IRG was a subcontractor on this project. |
| Environmental Compliance and Policy Support (ENCAP), 2004-2007 |
| USAID |
| The objective of this Task Order was to provide short-term technical assistance to strengthen the capacity to implement USAID's Environmental Procedures (commonly referred to as Regulation 216). In addition, the project provided short-term technical assistance to USAID/W, USAID Bureaus, and Missions and the Department of State to support the development and implementation of more effective environmental policies and related institutional strengthening. |
| Framework Strategic Planning
and Program Analysis for Environmental Investments, 2003-2004 |
| USAID |
| IRG assisted USAID's Bureau for Economic Growth,
Agriculture and Trade and Bureau for Africa in supporting field-based
activities that accelerated environmentally sound sustainable
development in Africa. More specifically, IRG enabled USAID
missions and partners to make better resource management choices
by providing effective tools, methods, and approaches to environmentally
sound resource management. The scope of this project included
not only strategic planning, but also environmental trend analysis
and capacity building. |
Related Publication:
2004-10 Nature Wealth Power-Revitalizing Rural Africa.pdf (727Kb) |
Management, Organizational, and Business Improvement Services
(MOBIS),
2001-2011 |
| General
Services Administration |
| MOBIS is a Federal Supply Schedule offered to federal agencies
by GSA to provide them with a streamlined procurement device
to acquire management consulting, facilitation, survey and quality-related
training services for the implementation of quality management
and other related system change processes within their agencies.
Under MOBIS, IRG offers services in its core business sectors
of environment, natural resources, energy, and relief and reconstruction
as well as cross-cutting areas such as knowledge management,
governance, economic analysis, and policy analysis. We supply
these services to federal agencies and other organizations authorized
to use the General Services Administration's Federal Supply
Schedule Contract. IRG's MOBIS services include Consulting (SIN
874-1), Facilitation (SIN 874-2), Training (SIN 874-4), and
Program Management (SIN 874-7). more |
| Environmental Services, 2004-2009 |
| General
Services Administration |
| The Environmental Services Schedule provides contract support
to help federal agencies comply with environmental initiatives
and meet environmental goals. IRG's services under this Schedule
include (SIN 899-1) Environmental Planning Services & Documentation,
(SIN 899-2) Environmental Compliance Services, (SIN 899-3) Environmental
Occupational Training Services, and (SIN 899-5) Reclamation,
Recycling and Disposal Services. more |
Environmental Policy and
Institutional Strengthening IQC (EPIQ I & II),
1996-2011 |
| USAID |
IRG and its partners provide quick-response short-, medium-,
and long-term advisory services and technical assistance to
USAID's Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade,
missions, and regional bureaus in the following areas: environmental
assessment and strategic planning; environment sector design;
policy analysis and implementation; development of performance
monitoring systems; information management and dissemination;
research, surveys, inventories, and special studies; institutional
development; support for international forums on the environment;
commodity procurement; and grant management. Through EPIQ,
IRG helps decision makers in developing countries analyze,
develop, and implement policy options that balance growth
with environmental sustainability, thus enhancing economic
development while reducing long-term threats to the global
environment.
IRG was the sole awardee of the EPIQ I IQC (1996-2002) under
which the firm implemented $105 million in contracts in 40
countries. IRG provided senior policy advisors, a technical
advisory group, and other experts to help develop innovative
strategies that would achieve effective and timely results
on policy and institutional strengthening issues. Reports
completed under this contract include Environmental Policy
Implementation: Lessons Learned II (English-part
1) (English-part
2) (Spanish);
Assessment of Joint Programming Possibilities Between
the Department of State's Bureau of Oceans, International
Environmental and Scientific Affairs and USAID's Global
Bureau Center for the Environment; and Environmental
Guidelines for Development Activities in Latin America.
IRG is the prime contractor of the multiple award EPIQ II
IQC (2003-2011) that has a $250 million ceiling. The five-year
contract also helps EGAT's sustainable environmental management
program, which includes natural resource management, biodiversity
conservation, sustainable urban development, and sustainable
energy systems. |
| Energy II IQC, 2004-2012 |
| USAID |
| IRG and its partners provide quick-response, short-, medium-,
and long-term advisory services and technical assistance across
the energy sector, including: fossil fuel sectors (oil and gas,
coal); renewable and alternative energy sources; energy sector
reform (planning, restructuring, regulatory development, and
privatization); regional energy planning and trade; energy efficiency,
utility management, and environmental resource management; transportation;
rural energy services; climate change; and technology transfer.
IRG is the prime contractor of this multiple award IQC that
has a $500 million ceiling. (Brochure) 110Kb |
| Disaster Assistance IQC, 1996-2004 |
| USAID |
| Under this contract, IRG was mandated to provide quick response
short-term disaster assistance through the distribution of food
and non-food aid to disaster-stricken areas worldwide. IRG provided
experienced personnel for the implementation of emergency relief
within 72 hours of the first notification through the issuance
of delivery orders under this contract. IRG was the prime contractor. |
| Global Disaster Relief
Assistance IQC, 2003-2009 |
| USAID
Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) |
| IRG was the prime contractor providing support services to USAID's Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) for immediate short-term disaster relief assistance in the areas of water, sanitation, health and nutrition, and food relief in response to international emergency requirements |
| Coalbed Methane Outreach
Program (CMOP), 1995-2005 |
| US
Environmental Protection Agency |
| For nine years, IRG served as a prime contractor
supporting USEPA's public-private partnership program with the
coal industry. Specifically, IRG identified and promoted opportunities
for increasing the extent to which coal producers in the United
States and around the world could capture and use coal mine methane
(CMM). The tasks IRG implemented to achieve this goal include:
identifying and disseminating information on new technologies
and approaches to capture and productively utilize methane emissions
from underground coal mining; preparing technical documents
and conference papers on CMM project structure, finance, and
markets; analyzing the US energy sector's abatement of methane
emissions; managing CMOP's database of collaborator contact information;
and supporting technical analysis of ventilation methane emission
mitigation. In the process, IRG established a close working
relationship with most of the major coal industry partners in
the program. IRG's analysis of technologies for beneficially
using CMM included both evaluation of a given technology's performance
expectations under field conditions, as well as the economics
of technology deployment. Such economic analysis typically necessitated
an identification and evaluation of local markets for CMM project
output (natural gas for pipeline injection, thermal energy,
electric power) as well as of potential revenues that may be
generated through the sale of carbon emission reductions. |
| People, Energy & Development
IQC, 2004-2009 |
| USAID |
Services provided under this IQC facilitated more effective
and efficient knowledge management in the energy sector, focusing
on specific areas of interest within the broader themes of
governance, social development, and the environment. Services
included:
- institutional strengthening;
- energy policy reform;
- environmental and related infrastructure;
- promoting greater efficiency of energy production, distribution,
and use;
- fostering the commercialization and use of renewable energy
technologies and demonstrating appropriate technologies
to reduce energy-related environmental degradation and mitigate
emissions of greenhouse gases; and
- stakeholders' roles and participation.
Contractors were expected to assist developing countries and
economies in transition to design effective new strategies
to meet growing energy demand through the promotion of market-based
policies that enabled more efficient power production, energy
conservation, increased use of renewable energy sources, and
private sector participation in the energy sector. IRG was
a subcontractor on this multiple award IQC that had a $100
million ceiling. |
| Integrated Water and
Coastal Resource Management IQC, 2004-2012 |
| USAID |
| This IQC provides a wide range of services dealing with all
aspects of water and coastal resource management, with a particular
focus on integrated water resource management. Services include:
data collection, assessment, and analysis; strategic planning
and design; program implementation, support, and management;
performance monitoring; commodity procurement; and grant management.
IRG is a subcontractor on this multiple award IQC. |
| Sustainable Urban Management IQC, 1999-2002
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| USAID |
| The Sustainable Urban Management IQC supported activities
in four areas: expanded and equitable delivery of urban services
and shelter; more effective, responsive, and accountable local
government; reduced urban pollution; and credit program monitoring.
The functional labor categories included finance, local government,
environment, loan servicing, and administration. Services were
obtained through negotiated task orders that were written for
the first three years and extended for a subsequent one- or
two-year option. IRG was a subcontractor assigned to environment-related
task orders. |
| Broadening Access and Strengthening Input Market
Systems (BASIS) IQC, 1998-2003 |
| USAID |
| BASIS was developed under the umbrella of USAID's Agriculture
and Food Policy Project to provide technical assistance complementary
to research conducted by the BASIS Collaborative Research Support
Program. Both the support program and the IQC were guided by
the overall objectives of the Office of Agriculture and Food
Security, which aims to ensure adequate quantity and quality
of food, increase access to food among poorer households, and
promote agricultural practices that establish sustainable use
of the natural resource base. Specifically, the BASIS IQC was
designed to address how to improve efficiency of land, labor,
and financial markets, and how to increase access to those markets
equitably. IRG was a subcontractor. |
| Energy and Environment Training Services IQC,
1998-2003 |
| USAID |
| Emphasizing training, this IQC complemented the technical
and programmatic components of the USAID Energy and Environment
IQC. The training focused on designing, developing, and delivering
courses and materials and monitoring the impact of the training.
IRG was a subcontractor. |
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