Fatema Zil-e-Resalat

Fatema Zil-e-Resalat serves as an Acquisition and Assistance Specialist at USAID/Bangladesh, where she plays a pivotal role in executing strategic procurement and assistance instruments to advance the agency’s development objectives. She manages the full lifecycle of non-procurement awards and federal contracts, primarily supporting technical assistance, capacity building, and institutional strengthening initiatives across agriculture, trade, finance, urban infrastructure, and environmental sustainability. Her work directly enables USAID’s mission to foster resilient economic systems and community-level resilience through evidence-based, results-driven interventions. She specializes in professional services acquisitions aligned with long-term development outcomes rather than commodity procurement. Fatema maintains a consistent working relationship with AMD INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC, a primary contractor providing high-level technical expertise in program design, monitoring and evaluation, and systems strengthening. Her procurement patterns reflect a preference for established, mission-aligned firms with demonstrated experience in international development contexts. She engages vendors through competitive solicitation processes, prioritizing technical merit, organizational capacity, and alignment with USAID’s strategic goals, often utilizing task orders under indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) vehicles. Fatema’s contracting portfolio reflects a 100% no set-aside profile, indicating a focus on open competition rather than socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB. While she does not prioritize small business set-asides, her selections are driven by technical capability and programmatic fit, ensuring that the most qualified entities deliver high-impact results across complex development challenges. Her primary procurement focus is under NAICS 541990—All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services—encompassing consulting, research, evaluation, training, and systems design services. She routinely procures expertise in monitoring and evaluation frameworks, economic modeling, governance diagnostics, and climate-resilient infrastructure planning, reflecting deep domain expertise in international development technical services.