Aminata Diarra

Aminata Diarra serves as a key procurement lead within the U.S. Agency for International Development/West Africa Regional Office, where she manages the acquisition of high-impact technical services essential to advancing sustainable development and institutional resilience across West Africa. Her role centers on designing and executing complex contracts that support program design, monitoring and evaluation, and cross-cutting advisory services in governance, public health, climate adaptation, and economic stability. Diarra ensures alignment between procurement strategy and USAID’s mission of building local capacity through evidence-based, technically rigorous interventions, frequently overseeing solicitations that require specialized expertise in adaptive management and results-driven programming. Diarra’s contractor relationships are characterized by engagements with elite professional services firms and management consulting entities capable of delivering high-level technical advisory support in complex, multi-country contexts. She routinely partners with firms possessing deep regional knowledge and demonstrated experience in institutional strengthening, performance measurement, and stakeholder engagement frameworks. Her procurement approach emphasizes performance-based contracting, requiring contractors to demonstrate measurable outcomes and adaptive implementation capacity, fostering long-term, trust-based partnerships grounded in technical excellence rather than transactional delivery. Diarra’s contracting patterns reflect a strong preference for open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions awarded under non-set-aside authorities. While she does not prioritize socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs, her portfolio consistently creates pathways for qualified small businesses through full and open competition, ensuring market access based on technical merit and regional expertise. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 541990 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services) and 541611 (Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services), reflecting her specialization in securing strategic advisory services, M&E systems design, capacity-building technical assistance, and institutional diagnostics. She routinely procures services that integrate data-driven decision-making, stakeholder mapping, and adaptive program implementation to support USAID’s long-term development objectives in West Africa.