During FY 2019, USAID had a total of 1,733 service contract actions in all Product Service Codes (PSCs) with a total obligation value of $17,637,466,658. A detailed description of each service can be found in Table 1: PSC Category Descriptions for Contract Actions Analyzed.
In accordance with guidelines from the OFPP, this analysis focuses on contract actions over $150,000 in “special interest function (SIFs)” PSCs. As required by OMB’s Memorandum regarding Service Contract Inventories, dated December 19, 2011, USAID selected PSCs that have the largest percentage of obligations for services and a large cadre of contract actions for evaluation. Additionally, the selected PSCs cover critical technical functions in USAID.
Table 2 summarizes the inventory subset that was analyzed. The percentages reported in this table are the percentages of the Agency’s total service contract inventory, which includes all PSCs. In FY 2019, USAID had a total of 1,152 contract actions with an individual obligation greater than $150,000 in the six SIFs categories. The total value of these contract actions was $14,206,947,230, including all actions for any active contract in FY 2019 in these categories. This subset of contracts represents 66.47 percent of the Agency’s total service-contract inventory, and 80.55 percent of the obligation value. For FY 2019, the PSCs with the largest contract actions include:
- R408-Support-Professional: Program Management/Support Services;
- R410-Support-Professional: Program Evaluation/Review/Development;
- R425-Support-Professional: Engineering/Technical;
- R497-Support-Professional: Personal Service Contracts;
- R499-Support-Professional: Other; and,
- R707-Support-Management: Contract/Procurement/Acquisition Support.
The PSCs with the lowest contract actions include AA36-R&D-Agriculture: Production (Management, Support); AA93-R&D- Agriculture: Other (Advanced Development); AA96-R&D- Agriculture: Other (Management/Support); and AB92-R&D- Community Service/Development: Other (Applied Research/Exploratory Development).
Personal Service Codes R425-Engineering and Technical Services and R499-Other Professional Services account for the largest percentages of obligation-value during the reporting period. The cumulative value of service contract actions in these two PSCs was $10,380,050,264. Like the special interest functions, each contract action had a minimum value above $150,000.
