Nalinee Wichetthumsak

Nalinee Wichetthumsak serves as a key procurement professional within the USAID/RDMA Thailand office, supporting the agency’s mission to strengthen local institutional capacity and advance sustainable development across health, education, environmental resilience, and democratic governance. She manages a portfolio of professional services contracts designed to enhance program design, implementation, and monitoring, with a focus on technical assistance and capacity-building initiatives. Her acquisitions prioritize expert-led consulting and analytical services that align with USAID’s strategic objectives, ensuring that funded interventions are evidence-based, locally grounded, and operationally effective. Her contractor relationships center on professional service providers with deep expertise in development programming, particularly those offering strategic advisory, monitoring and evaluation, and educational support services. She engages a diverse range of domestic and international firms, including specialized technical consultants and local Thai organizations with proven experience in public sector capacity development. Her procurement approach emphasizes performance-based contracting, outcome-oriented deliverables, and rigorous vendor evaluation to ensure alignment with USAID’s standards for accountability and impact. Nalinee’s contracting activity reflects a strong preference for open competition, with 100% of awards issued under no set-aside provisions. While she does not currently prioritize socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB, her process remains transparent and competitive, enabling broad participation from qualified vendors regardless of size or certification status. This approach supports efficiency and scalability while maintaining alignment with USAID’s global procurement guidelines. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 541990 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services), which accounts for nearly 80% of her portfolio, followed by 541690 (Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services) and 611710 (Educational Support Services). She routinely procures services related to policy analysis, stakeholder engagement, data-driven program evaluation, curriculum development, and institutional strengthening—reflecting deep expertise in development sector technical domains.