Millions of dollars in additional U.S. assistance is being provided to the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to create a civil-service institutional structure in that nation.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded a $17.1 million extension to Deloitte Consulting LLP to provide another five months of work in support of the Independent Administrative Reform and Civil Service Commission. (Contract award #306-C-00-07-0508-23)
The agency initially awarded a $2.4 million contract for this endeavor, known as the Afghan Civil Service Support project, early last month. (Contract award #306-C-00-07-00508-22)
Other than stating that the contract extension would enable Deloitte to perform these services “until the new end of the program October 31, 2011,” USAID did not specify why—just a month after the first award to Deloitte—that a contract nearly seven times larger than the original amount suddenly was necessary.
This project is related to a $219 million project (Solicitation #306-06-011APSO) for which main contractor Bearing Point in 2007 began carrying out “reform and capacity building” projects in Afghanistan. (Contract award #306-C-00-07-00508-22)
On a related front in the region, USAID recently awarded a $151 million contract to a vendor to provide similar civil-service reform services in Iraq (Monitor; June 13, 2011)
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