Aissatou Conde

Aissatou Conde serves as a key procurement lead for the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Guinea/Sierra Leone office, where she manages technical assistance acquisitions aligned with democratic governance, public health resilience, and conflict prevention initiatives. Her role centers on executing contracts that build institutional capacity within local governments and civil society organizations, ensuring sustainable development outcomes through expert-led technical services. She routinely handles solicitations for professional, scientific, and technical services that support electoral integrity, gender-based violence prevention, health security infrastructure, and governance reform programs across West Africa. While no specific contractor relationships are currently documented, Conde’s procurement patterns reflect a preference for high-capacity professional service providers with demonstrated expertise in institutional strengthening and development programming. She engages with a diverse pool of consultants, think tanks, and technical implementation partners—both international and locally based—who bring specialized knowledge in governance, human rights monitoring, and public health systems design. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, rigorous evaluation frameworks, and compliance with U.S. government standards for international development assistance. Conde’s set-aside preferences reveal a strong inclination toward open competition, with 87.5% of acquisitions conducted without socioeconomic set-asides. However, she consistently reserves 12.5% of opportunities for Local Area Set-Asides under FAR 26.2, prioritizing engagement with West African-based firms and organizations to enhance local ownership and sustainability. This pattern underscores a strategic commitment to building indigenous capacity rather than relying on external contractors. Her procurement activity is exclusively focused on NAICS 541990—All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services—indicating a deep specialization in non-construction, knowledge-intensive support services. She procures technical assistance for policy reform, data collection systems, training programs, and institutional diagnostics, reflecting expertise in development economics, governance analytics, and public sector capacity building.