Mohammad Baddar

Mohammad Baddar serves as a key procurement lead within the U.S. Agency for International Development/West Africa Regional Office, overseeing the acquisition of high-impact technical services critical to advancing sustainable development across the region. His role centers on managing competitive contracting processes for professional, scientific, and technical assistance that supports governance reform, public health system strengthening, climate resilience programming, and economic sector capacity building. He ensures alignment with USAID’s mission of fostering local institutional capacity through evidence-based program design, monitoring and evaluation frameworks, and cross-cutting technical advisory services, with a strong emphasis on performance-based contracting and results-oriented deliverables. Baddar collaborates with a diverse array of international and regional consulting firms, research institutions, and technical service providers that deliver specialized expertise in development programming. His procurement patterns reflect a preference for long-term, performance-based task orders and indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts that enable flexible, adaptive responses to evolving regional needs. While no single contractor dominates his portfolio, he consistently engages firms with demonstrated experience in West African contexts, emphasizing local partnerships and knowledge transfer as core objectives. Baddar’s contracting activity is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under open competition. This reflects a strategic decision to prioritize technical merit and programmatic fit over socioeconomic preferences, aligning with USAID’s regional emphasis on quality, scalability, and institutional credibility. While small business participation is not formally incentivized through set-asides, his procurement process remains transparent and accessible to qualified vendors of all sizes. His primary procurement focus is on NAICS 541990—All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services—encompassing expert consulting, impact evaluation, data analytics, capacity-building training, and systems strengthening services. He routinely procures technical assistance in governance, health systems, climate adaptation, and economic policy, ensuring that contracted expertise directly supports USAID’s strategic objectives in West Africa.