Alicia Veldman

Alicia Veldman serves as an HR Contracts Assistant at USAID/South Africa, supporting the agency’s mission to strengthen institutional capacity and advance sustainable development across Southern Africa. In this role, she facilitates the acquisition of personal services contracts essential to implementing technical assistance programs in public health, governance, and environmental conservation. Her responsibilities include preparing solicitation documents, ensuring compliance with federal procurement regulations, and coordinating with program officers to align contracting actions with strategic objectives. She primarily handles non-construction, non-supply acquisitions centered on professional human resources support, including consultants, trainers, and administrative specialists critical to building local institutional capability. While no specific contractor relationships are currently identifiable in the dataset, Veldman routinely engages with a broad spectrum of service providers offering specialized HR, capacity-building, and technical support services. Her work involves vetting vendors for qualifications, ensuring adherence to performance-based contracting standards, and maintaining transparent, compliant procurement processes that uphold USAID’s accountability framework. She collaborates closely with program teams to define scope, evaluate proposals, and manage contract modifications, fostering long-term partnerships with firms capable of delivering high-impact, context-specific solutions in complex development environments. Veldman’s procurement activity reflects a 100% preference for non-set-aside contracts, indicating a focus on open competition rather than socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs. This pattern suggests an emphasis on selecting the most qualified providers based on technical merit and past performance, consistent with USAID’s global procurement priorities for high-stakes development engagements where specialized expertise is paramount. Her primary procurement focus is under NAICS 812990 (All Other Personal Services), encompassing a wide array of professional services including training, advisory support, monitoring and evaluation, and organizational development. She specializes in acquiring human capital services that directly enhance local governance, health system resilience, and civic engagement—core pillars of USAID/South Africa’s development strategy.