Lesley DeRosa

Lesley DeRosa serves as a key procurement professional within USAID/Nepal, supporting the agency’s mission to advance sustainable development through locally led solutions. She manages acquisitions aligned with institutional capacity building, technical assistance, and community empowerment initiatives, primarily in health, governance, and agricultural development. Her role involves designing and administering contracts that enable data-driven program implementation and long-term resilience-building, ensuring compliance with U.S. foreign assistance procurement regulations. DeRosa typically handles service-based acquisitions requiring specialized expertise in education, professional consulting, and community-based service delivery. Her contractor relationships are centered on professional service providers offering technical expertise in education support, personal services, and broader professional, scientific, and technical consulting. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, she consistently engages firms with demonstrated experience in Nepal’s socio-cultural context, prioritizing local capacity and knowledge integration. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, requiring vendors to deliver measurable impacts in areas such as teacher training, civic engagement, and agricultural extension services. DeRosa’s procurement patterns reflect a strong preference for open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions issued without set-aside designations. This indicates a strategic focus on selecting the most qualified providers regardless of socioeconomic status, rather than prioritizing 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs. While small business participation is not formally mandated in her portfolio, the nature of her procurements often naturally attracts local Nepali firms and U.S.-based small businesses with regional expertise. Her primary NAICS focus areas—611710 (Educational Support Services), 812990 (All Other Personal Services), and 541990 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services)—reveal a specialization in human capital development and advisory services. She procures curriculum design, community outreach, monitoring and evaluation, and institutional strengthening services, reflecting deep expertise in context-sensitive, results-oriented technical assistance procurement.