Under Contract

• The U.S. Agency for International Development inked a contract worth up to $12 million with Fintrac, a consulting company that works to develop “agricultural solutions to end hunger and poverty,” to assist the agency in its poverty-reduction efforts in Zimbabwe. The Poverty Reduction and Food Security program aims to help farmers in the country with improving the cultivation of high-value crops, staple food crops, beef cattle and dairy cattle. The objective is to “reduce rural poverty and improve food security of targeted smallholder agricultural producers through increased agricultural production, productivity, and market linkages, [and] improve the nutrition and hygiene practices leading to improved nutrition status of beneficiary households,” according to contract documents.

• The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) awarded a $28,400 contract to Laura Liswood, who co-founded the Council of Women World Leaders, for “diversity and inclusion training services.” The CFPB, which just had its four-year anniversary of operation, has come under fire after allegations that it unfairly treated women and minority employees. The bureau announced it would undertake efforts to train employees to spot unconscious biases, and it awarded Liswood the sole source contract because of her “unique, copyrighted training program,” according to documents on the General Services Administration website.

• Central Louisiana Technical Community College won a $928,414 contract from the Justice Department’s Bureau of Prisons to provide vocational training instructors for the inmates at the Federal Correctional Complex located in Oakdale, La. Classes include welding, building trades and horticulture and must be accredited by the Council on Occupational Education and meet the primary Bureau of Prisons program objectives. The contract is for one year, with the option to extend for another four one-year periods. 

• The Bureau of Land Management in the Alaska region awarded a $19,284 contract to Golden Eagle Outfitters, an air taxi company in the state, to help the agency conduct an “aerial survey for doll sheep.” 

Contract information compiled from General Services Administration data and government press releases. Send announcements about government contracts to mwilson@digital-staging.thehill.com.