Subject: IHD Wins Major Award, Further Expanding Abt’sImportant Work in Malaria Prevention
From: JKnott-EVP <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 19:40:41 +0000

Dear Colleagues,

It is with great pride and pleasure I announce Abt’s largest win in the company’s 50-year history.

IHD Wins Major Award, Further Expanding Abt’s Important Work in Malaria Prevention

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded Abt the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI)-funded Task Order 6 contract—Indoor Residual Spraying 2—which builds on our current work in the Africa Indoor Residual Spraying (AIRS) project. This three-year contract began on September 26, 2014, and is a single-award task order with a total value of $268 million.

Under this contract, Abt will continue to assist PMI in reducing the burden of malaria in Africa through indoor residual spraying (IRS), rigorous entomological monitoring, and capacity building in 15 countries where malaria is endemic. Abt also will continue to support PMI in IRS monitoring and evaluation, as well as environmental compliance. This important win is a testament to our demonstrated excellence in on-the-ground implementation of the AIRS project as well as other IRS work in Uganda. Our outstanding coverage of IRS in some of the world’s most challenging countries and our ability to ensure cost-efficiency and environmental safety has helped to protect more than 27 million people from malaria since 2011.

Abt’s innovative measures in making IRS more cost-effective, efficient, safer, and sustainable was a key win theme that ran through the proposal’s discussion of  logistics, procurement, monitoring and evaluation, mHealth, environmental compliance, and capacity building. Of Abt’s four subcontracting partners on the contract, three are small-businesses, including two of which are women-owned, contributing to Abt’s priority to strengthen the participation of small, minority-owned businesses.

Congratulations to the entire proposal team, including Project Director Bradford Lucas, lead technical writer Nancy Nachbar, technical leads Dereje Dengela, Peter Chandonait, and Allan Were, as well as to the many others from the AIRS team who made major contributions including, Paula Wood, Nicole de Gier, Mariandrea Chamorro, Josh Rosenfeld, Jane Coleman, Lena Kolyada, Beth Brennan, Jennifer Burnett, Ana Maria Paddack, Angela Sanchez, Djenam Jacob, Elana Fiekowsky, Tanya Svynarchuk, Sherreen Tolliver, Pamela Dasher, Alledia Adams, and Miriam Mokuena. Such a large award requires the work of many outside of the project team. Thanks also go to Margarita Fernandez, Pat Poulton, Rebecca Rishty (who led the 900-plus-page cost proposal), Jeff Leone, Judy Ward, Jonathan Angerer, Brad Longman, Tim Irgens, Kathy Echols, Kerry DeSomma, Missy Robinson, Kathleen Linton, Cara Capizzi, and Busi Langa.

Best Regards,

Jay

Jay L. Knott | Executive Vice President, Chief Business Officer | Abt Associates

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