Satish Kumar

Satish B. Kumar serves as a Senior Contracts Specialist at USAID/Nepal, where he plays a pivotal role in managing the full lifecycle of procurement actions aligned with the agency’s mission of sustainable development and institutional capacity building. He oversees the acquisition of professional, scientific, and technical services critical to advancing health system strengthening, agricultural transformation, and governance reforms across Nepal. His responsibilities include developing solicitation documents, conducting source selection, negotiating contract terms, and ensuring compliance with FAR, DFARS, and USAID’s Automated Directives System. He works closely with program officers and technical teams to align contracting strategies with project objectives, ensuring that acquisitions support locally led, data-driven interventions. While no specific contractor relationships are currently identifiable, Kumar engages with a diverse pool of international and local service providers, including consulting firms, technical assistance providers, and implementation partners with deep expertise in development programming. His procurement patterns reflect a preference for performance-based, results-oriented contracts that emphasize accountability, transparency, and adaptive management. He fosters collaborative vendor relationships grounded in compliance, ethical standards, and long-term partnership building. Kumar demonstrates a strong commitment to socioeconomic inclusion, with approximately 90.9% of his acquisitions conducted under full and open competition and 9.1% structured as Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5. This reflects a deliberate effort to integrate small businesses into USAID’s development ecosystem, prioritizing eligibility under standard small business categories rather than specialized set-asides like 8(a) or HUBZone. His primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 541990 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services) and 541611 (Administrative Management Consulting), with additional activity in technical consulting (541690), infrastructure construction (237310), and specialized manufacturing (335312). He routinely procures advisory services, monitoring and evaluation frameworks, capacity-building programs, and technical equipment essential to USAID/Nepal’s development outcomes.