Kinshasa Oaa

Kinshasa Oaa serves as a key procurement professional within USAID/Haiti, supporting the agency’s mission to strengthen sustainable development and institutional resilience through expert technical assistance. Responsible for managing the acquisition of professional and scientific services, Oaa oversees the full lifecycle of contracts designed to deliver on-the-ground capacity building in health, rule of law, elections, economic opportunity, and infrastructure. Their work ensures that U.S. and third-country national contractors are effectively deployed to support Haiti’s public systems, aligning procurement activities with USAID’s strategic objectives and compliance requirements under the Federal Acquisition Regulation. Oaa collaborates with a diverse array of international and local professional services firms specializing in governance, technical advisory, and institutional strengthening. While no single contractor dominates the portfolio, the contracting pattern reflects a preference for experienced, mission-aligned firms with demonstrated expertise in post-conflict and fragile-state environments. Relationships are built on performance-based outcomes, rigorous evaluation criteria, and a focus on local capacity transfer, often involving subcontracting to Haitian-led organizations to ensure sustainability. Oaa’s procurement activities show no use of socioeconomic set-asides, with 100% of acquisitions conducted under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic decision to prioritize technical merit and mission readiness over socioeconomic preferences, consistent with USAID’s global operational guidelines for complex, high-stakes development environments where specialized expertise is paramount. The primary NAICS code utilized is 541990, encompassing all other professional, scientific, and technical services. This underscores a heavy reliance on non-standardized, mission-critical services such as electoral integrity assessments, judicial system reform, public financial management advisory, and health system diagnostics. Oaa’s expertise lies in procuring highly specialized, non-commoditized technical services that require deep contextual knowledge and adaptive implementation approaches tailored to Haiti’s evolving development landscape.