Khulisa Management Services, Inc.

Khulisa Management Services, Inc., a for-profit professional consulting firm headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, specializes in providing monitoring, evaluation, learning, and research services to federal agencies across multiple sectors. The firm has been registered to receive federal awards since July 26, 2004, and maintains an active System for Award Management (SAM.gov) registration through October 8, 2026. Khulisa's core competency centers on delivering comprehensive program evaluations, ex-post assessments, technical assistance, and strategic learning services that enable federal agencies to measure program effectiveness, identify lessons learned, and improve operational performance across diverse policy domains ranging from international development and foreign affairs to domestic agricultural and nutrition initiatives.

Khulisa's recent federal contract activity demonstrates substantial expertise in program evaluation and monitoring services across multiple federal agencies and policy areas. The firm has received delivery orders from the Department of State under its Performance Management, Evaluation, and Learning Services (PMELS) indefinite delivery contract, including evaluations of the Near East Regional Democracy program's internet freedom initiatives ($599,103), assessment of civil society strengthening programming in Near East Regional Democracy ($484,029), evaluation of strategies to reduce mercury usage in artisanal and small-scale gold mining ($280,797), reporting services for the Central America Regional Security Initiative Small Grants Program ($462,981), and evaluation of trade-related environmental cooperation activities ($473,863.78). The Department of Agriculture has awarded Khulisa delivery orders for contractor support services to evaluate the USDA Farm to School Grant Program ($251,252) under a total small business set-aside and evaluation of the Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production Grant Program ($8,766) as a total small business set-aside. The United States Trade and Development Agency awarded Khulisa a $3.56 million firm fixed-price delivery order for an outside evaluation team contract extending through August 2030. Additionally, Khulisa received a substantial $18.5 million task order from the U.S. Mission in Mexico under the EVAL ME II (Monitoring Evaluation Learning Services) indefinite delivery contract to provide technical services supporting USAID's Peace Through Evaluation, Learning, and Adaptation II Activity (PELA II) in West Africa, with subcontractors including Dexis Consulting Group and Itad Inc. The Department of State's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration also awarded Khulisa a $364,453 delivery order to evaluate the effectiveness of programs for protection of refugee youth in urban settings in Africa. Furthermore, Khulisa served as a subcontractor to University Research Co., LLC, providing technical assistance in monitoring and evaluation, countering trafficking in persons, and data analysis services.

Khulisa Management Services, Inc. holds two primary federal contract indefinite delivery vehicles that position the firm as a key provider of evaluation and research services to the federal government. The firm maintains a $150 million Performance Management, Evaluation, and Learning Services (PMELS) multiple-award indefinite delivery contract with the Department of State's Office of Acquisition Management, awarded on April 3, 2023, with an ultimate completion date of April 2, 2028, under partial small business set-aside authority. This contract supports five separate functional area contracts designed to provide comprehensive monitoring, evaluation, learning, and research services across the Department of State's foreign policy program areas, including security sector programming, media program evaluations, environmental program support, fellowship impact assessments, and legal services evaluation, with delivery orders extending through 2026 to support various departmental bureaus. Additionally, Khulisa holds a $200,000 General Services Administration Federal Supply Schedule Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contract awarded on February 12, 2021, with a performance period extending through February 11, 2026, which establishes labor rates for on-call professional services across thirteen labor categories including evaluators, researchers, project managers, and subject matter experts, with hourly rates ranging from $51.63 to $269.90. This MAS contract enables federal agencies to efficiently procure Khulisa's technical assistance, management consulting, research, and evaluation support services, and has served as the parent vehicle for multiple delivery orders from the Department of Agriculture and the United States Trade and Development Agency, facilitating rapid access to the firm's evaluation capabilities across multiple government agencies.

The company is a development management consulting firm with specialization in the areas of education, public health, railways, nutrition, agriculture, information technology, food manufacturing, human resources, labor and statutory compliance.