The Active Communities – Effective States (ACES) Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract is an important tool to help USAID elevate DRG issues within the current administration’s foreign policy agenda. The ACES IDIQ is designed to integrate democracy programming throughout USAID’s core development work and prioritize the engagement of local development parties as critical players in a country’s development and its ability to achieve DRG goals.

Through the ACES IDIQ contract, Tetra Tech’s DRG and rule of law experts will assist USAID missions around the world to support countries to achieve gains in freedom and development by:

• Advancing participatory, representative, and inclusive political processes and government institutions
• Strengthening accountability of institutions and leaders to citizens and to the law
• Promoting and protecting individual human rights
• Improving development outcomes through the integration of DRG principles and practices across USAID’s development portfolio

The ACES IDIQ contract brings together industry-leading expertise from Tetra Tech (through the Tetra Tech DRG JV Inc., a joint venture between Tetra Tech and MSI, A Tetra Tech Company) and consortium partners, including Crown Agents USA, Development Professionals Inc., Gender Resources Inc., Integra LLC., International Research and Exchanges Board, Mobile Accord, Inc., National Academy of Public Administration, Pact, RE!NSTITUTE, and Resonance.