Government Contracts

Sample of some of our current and past contracts

USAEA and our parent company hold a number of government, technology and asset management contracts.  The services center on business, market and technology assessment, program development and asset management.  Our government contracting experience keeps USAEA at the forefront of technology programs, energy policy and public and private funding as well as current with the energy industry and research communities. 

1. U.S. Department of Energy Loan Guarantee Program
USAEA is under contract with the Department of Energy’s Loan Guarantee Program to design and develop the Financial Institution Partnership Program (FIPP) loan application processing and management system, which includes components for data storage and reporting.  This multiyear contract is intended to assist the DOE in with issuing loan guarantees to eligible projects that will help to sustain economic growth, yield environmental benefits, and produce a more stable and secure energy supply.

2. Ohio Advanced Energy Jobs Stimulus Package
USAEA is under contract with the Ohio Air Quality Development Authority to design and underwrite its advanced energy industry incentive program.  This multiyear contract oversees the competition for $84 million in loans and grants to Ohio’s solar, biofuels, advanced materials, automobile, geothermal, nuclear and other industries in the advanced energy supply chains.  USAEA designed the program, created award criteria, led the outreach to stakeholders, developed the validation process and is assessing applications.  USAEA works with firms across the advanced energy industrial landscape to ensure sound public investment that meet jobs, power and other State of Ohio economic goals.

3. Financial Advising and Asset Recovery Services
Our management team is the lead contractor for a number of financial management contracts for foreign and domestic banking and regulatory clients.  We have conducted financial assessments and liquidated over $1 billion in claims for the Ex Im Bank, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.  The USAEA staff brings to these contracts experience in banking, contract law, business forensics and financial due diligence. 

4. Central Ohio Community Improvement Corporation (COCIC) Management
Through our parent corporation, we manage a public-private partnership to remediate and redevelop distressed and environmentally impacted real estate.  Included among the various projects, we are currently remediating and redeveloping an 88 acre abandoned landfill and 132 acres of bordering property.  Central Park of Gahanna is being developed into a commercial and recreational mixed use area.  In this unique arrangement, our team brings investment to the project and shares in the equity of the property.  The landfill has now been closed and remediated, with a golf training facility incorporated as part of the landfill cap.  A state-of-the-art methane recovery system has been constructed and is now capable of producing electricity.  The partnership, in total, has helped bring in more than $8 million in state, federal and utility grants. 

5. Inter-American Development Bank
USAEA team members have advised Hunt Howell – former Chief Economist for the Inter-American Bank based in Washington D.C., on an intersector loan between the Inter-American Bank and the Barbados Government.  We advised on the conditionality and safety and soundness standards for the Central Bank of Barbados and its national banks after other parties were unable to complete this task.

6. Central Bank of Suriname
With the recommendation of a former RTC official, USAEA team members advised the Central Bank of Suriname on the conditionality, safety and soundness standards for their loans and deposits and developed asset management and disposition strategies for the Bank.