Zachary Clarke

Zachary Clarke serves as a key procurement professional within USAID/Rwanda, supporting the agency’s mission to advance sustainable development through expert-led technical assistance and institutional capacity building. He manages a portfolio of professional services contracts aligned with global health, education, trade facilitation, and livelihoods programming, ensuring acquisitions adhere to U.S. foreign assistance guidelines and local partnership priorities. His work centers on securing high-impact, adaptive solutions from qualified consultants and technical service providers who can deliver long-term, results-driven outcomes in partnership with Rwandan stakeholders. Clarke collaborates primarily with professional service firms specializing in management consulting, public sector capacity development, and technical advisory services. While no specific contractor names are currently available in the procurement record, his acquisition patterns indicate consistent engagement with firms possessing deep expertise in institutional strengthening, program evaluation, and systems-level design. His working relationships reflect a preference for agile, outcome-oriented vendors capable of delivering context-sensitive interventions across complex, low-resource environments. Clarke’s contracting activity shows a 100% preference for non-set-aside awards, indicating a focus on merit-based selection rather than socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs. This reflects USAID/Rwanda’s emphasis on technical competency and program alignment over socioeconomic criteria, prioritizing the most qualified providers regardless of business size or certification status. His procurement focus is overwhelmingly concentrated in NAICS 541990 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services), with a secondary emphasis on NAICS 541611 (Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services). These categories reflect his specialization in securing expert consultants for program design, monitoring and evaluation, policy analysis, and institutional capacity enhancement—core domains critical to USAID’s development objectives in Rwanda.