ALAC and MENAE Recruitment Teams OA

The ALAC Recruitment Team serves as the central procurement function for the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (720BHA), overseeing the acquisition of critical support services essential to global humanitarian operations. Responsible for end-to-end contract management, they facilitate the procurement of expert advisory services, program design support, and operational coordination capabilities that enable rapid crisis response and long-term resilience-building. Their acquisitions primarily target professional and administrative services that strengthen international relief systems, including logistics optimization, market-based intervention design, and food assistance program implementation, ensuring alignment with USAID’s strategic humanitarian objectives. While no specific contractor relationships are currently identifiable in the available data, the team engages a broad spectrum of service providers—including international NGOs, technical consulting firms, and logistics specialists—with a focus on agile, performance-based contracting models. Their working relationships emphasize flexibility, scalability, and rapid mobilization to meet dynamic field requirements, often leveraging indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) and other flexible contract vehicles to ensure timely response to evolving humanitarian emergencies. The ALAC Recruitment Team maintains a uniform preference for open, non-set-aside acquisitions, with 100% of procurements conducted without socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB designations. This reflects a mission-driven prioritization of capability, speed, and global reach over socioeconomic criteria, aligning with the urgent and complex nature of humanitarian response where specialized expertise often supersedes preference programs. Their procurement activity is exclusively classified under NAICS 921190—Other General Government Support—indicating a singular focus on high-level administrative, advisory, and operational support services. They procure technical assistance in humanitarian logistics, emergency food systems, supply chain coordination, and program evaluation, requiring deep domain expertise in international development, disaster response frameworks, and multilateral coordination mechanisms.