Bhawna Chadha

Bhawna Chadha serves as a key procurement professional within the U.S. Agency for International Development, where she plays a central role in advancing the agency’s global development mission through strategic contracting. She manages complex, performance-based acquisitions aligned with USAID’s priorities in democratic governance, education, environmental sustainability, and private-sector-led growth. Her work primarily involves securing high-impact technical services that support institutional capacity building, policy reform, and adaptive program design in partner nations. Chadha’s portfolio is dominated by professional, scientific, and technical services contracts, reflecting her focus on outcome-driven, evidence-based interventions rather than commodity procurement. She maintains consistent, long-term relationships with leading international development contractors, including Chemonics International, DAI Global, ABT Global, and Credence Management Solutions. These partnerships are characterized by deep technical collaboration, with vendors often engaged in multi-year, results-oriented engagements that require specialized expertise in monitoring and evaluation, systems strengthening, and local capacity development. Chadha’s contracting approach emphasizes performance metrics, risk mitigation, and compliance with USAID’s developmental effectiveness standards. Chadha’s procurement activity shows no reliance on socioeconomic set-asides, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic preference for selecting the most qualified global providers based on technical merit, past performance, and programmatic alignment, rather than socioeconomic criteria. While small business participation is not formally prioritized in her portfolio, the nature of her acquisitions often involves subcontracting to local firms in host countries as part of program implementation. Her primary focus is on NAICS 541990—All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services—encompassing a broad spectrum of technical assistance, research, training, and advisory services critical to USAID’s mission. She procures specialized expertise in governance diagnostics, economic policy analysis, environmental impact assessments, and education system reform, ensuring that technical solutions are contextually grounded and sustainably implemented.