Esteban Enriquez-Salazar

Esteban Enriquez-Salazar serves as an Acquisition & Assistance Specialist at USAID/Haiti, where he plays a pivotal role in executing mission-critical procurement and assistance actions to advance sustainable development and institutional resilience across Haiti. He specializes in managing personal services contracts and technical assistance instruments that deploy U.S. and third-country national experts in health systems strengthening, rule of law, electoral integrity, economic opportunity, and infrastructure development. His work directly supports USAID’s mandate to build local capacity through targeted, expertise-driven interventions, ensuring that acquisitions align with strategic objectives and compliance frameworks under the Federal Acquisition Regulation and USAID’s Automated Directives System. Enriquez-Salazar collaborates with a diverse range of professional services contractors, including international consulting firms, U.S.-based technical assistance providers, and local Haitian institutions with specialized domain expertise. His procurement patterns emphasize long-term, performance-based engagements with subject matter experts in governance, public finance, and public health, fostering deep institutional partnerships that extend beyond transactional relationships to include capacity transfer and knowledge sharing. He prioritizes contractor accountability, performance metrics, and adaptive management to ensure programmatic impact. His contracting activity shows no reliance on socioeconomic set-asides, with 100% of acquisitions conducted under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic focus on securing the highest-caliber technical expertise available globally, rather than prioritizing socioeconomic categories, while still adhering to all applicable transparency and fairness requirements. His primary procurement focus is under NAICS 541990—All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services—encompassing expert consulting, technical advisory services, and specialized support functions critical to USAID’s development objectives. He routinely procures services related to institutional diagnostics, policy design, monitoring and evaluation, and training delivery, demonstrating deep expertise in the technical domains of public sector reform and development programming.