Aminata R. Camara

Aminata Camara serves as a Personnel Assistant within the USAID/Guinea/Sierra Leone office, supporting the agency’s mission to strengthen democratic governance, public health resilience, and conflict prevention in West Africa. In her role, she facilitates administrative and personnel-related procurement activities, ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations and agency-specific human capital policies. She plays a critical support function in the acquisition lifecycle, assisting with requirement development, vendor coordination, and contract documentation for professional services tied to institutional capacity building and governance reform. Her work directly enables the agency’s technical assistance programs by ensuring timely staffing and operational support for field-based initiatives. While specific contractor names are not available, Camara collaborates with a broad spectrum of professional service providers, including consultants, technical advisors, and implementation partners engaged in governance, human rights, and health security programming. Her procurement patterns reflect a preference for non-set-aside, competed contracts, indicating a focus on open, transparent competition to source specialized expertise. She maintains collaborative relationships with firms offering adaptive management, institutional strengthening, and gender-based violence prevention services, often working through task orders under existing indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) mechanisms. Camara’s contracting activity shows a strong orientation toward open competition, with 88.5% of acquisitions conducted without set-aside designations. Small business participation is present but limited, with 7.7% awarded under the 8(a) program and 3.9% under total small business set-asides per FAR 19.5, reflecting a balanced but not prioritized approach to socioeconomic contracting. Her procurement focus is overwhelmingly concentrated in NAICS 541990—All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services—indicating a primary reliance on expert consultants for governance, electoral integrity, and institutional development support. A minor portion of activity falls under NAICS 923120 for public health program administration, aligning with USAID’s health security priorities. Her work centers on acquiring high-level technical services rather than commodities, underscoring her domain expertise in human capital and institutional support contracting.