CamiloPena

Camilo Pena serves as Acquisition Assistance at USAID/Colombia, providing critical procurement support to advance the agency’s mission of sustainable development and institutional resilience. In this role, he facilitates the planning, solicitation, and award of technical assistance contracts aligned with Colombia’s economic transformation, environmental sustainability, and governance priorities. His work centers on securing professional services that enable policy advisory, cross-sectoral program design, and capacity-building initiatives with local stakeholders. Pena operates within the full lifecycle of acquisition processes, ensuring compliance with federal regulations and USAID’s development objectives while coordinating with technical units to translate program needs into enforceable contractual instruments. Pena maintains a consistent working relationship with AMD INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC, a primary contractor delivering high-impact technical services across USAID/Colombia’s portfolio. His procurement patterns reflect a preference for established, mission-aligned firms capable of delivering complex, context-sensitive solutions in climate-smart agriculture, inclusive economic growth, and accountability systems. These partnerships are characterized by long-term engagement, performance-based deliverables, and deep alignment with USAID’s strategic outcomes, rather than transactional procurement. Pena’s acquisition portfolio reflects a 100% non-set-aside orientation, with no reliance on 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other socioeconomic preferences. This reflects the agency’s strategic focus on securing specialized technical expertise from a competitive, globally vetted pool of providers, prioritizing capability and mission fit over socioeconomic categorization. While small business participation is not formally targeted, all procurements adhere to fair and open competition principles under FAR and USAID policies. His procurement activity is exclusively concentrated under NAICS 541990—All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services—encompassing consulting, analytical services, monitoring and evaluation, and institutional strengthening support. He routinely acquires services requiring advanced technical knowledge in development economics, environmental policy, and public sector governance, ensuring that USAID’s interventions are evidence-based, locally grounded, and scalable.