The Natural Resources Consulting Engineers, Inc. (NRCE) and CH2M will provide engineering and technical support services to the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) missions, bureaus, and offices worldwide in implementation of the agency’s water and development strategy. This is a multiple-award indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract, with a ceiling of $1 billion, over a 5-year period of performance.
Under this Water and Development IDIQ (WADI) contract, NRCE and major subcontractor CH2M, along with a team of partners including Deloitte Consulting, Futures/GRM Group, IMPAQ International, JE Austin, IDEO, NEWDEA, and Panagora Group, will provide services in water programming to improve health through the sustainable delivery of water, sanitation, and hygiene, as well as advance water resource management in agriculture for enhanced food security. The team will help USAID prioritize and implement water solutions to protect public health and increase stainable development.
From 1998-2001, NRCE participated in CH2M’s Department of Defense Mentor Protégé Program. CH2M, who has earned numerous awards for small business subcontracting, has been an official mentor to many federal mentor protégé programs for the last 8 years and is pleased to work with NRCE on this contract, one of three set aside for small businesses.
Located in Fort Collins, Colorado, (with offices in Oakland, California, and Asmara, Eritrea), NRCE was founded in 1989. NRCE has a well-regarded history in engineering, water rights, water resource studies, and agricultural and irrigation development globally. NRCE has worked with government agencies, judiciary systems, communities, Indian tribes, attorneys, and engineering firms as well as a variety of clients in the public and private sectors to deliver projects spanning civil, water, and environmental disciplines and specialties.
NRCE experts have worked on four continents and have extensive experience improving water supply in East Africa.