Amy McQuade

Amy McQuade serves as a key procurement professional within USAID/Lebanon, supporting the agency’s mission to foster sustainable economic development and institutional resilience through strategic contracting. She manages the acquisition of professional, scientific, and technical services essential to program design, technical assistance, and community-based service delivery. Her work directly enables USAID’s priorities in governance strengthening, agricultural productivity, trade facilitation, and water and sanitation infrastructure, ensuring that contracting aligns with development outcomes and local capacity building. McQuade handles complex, performance-based acquisitions requiring deep technical expertise and adaptive management approaches. McQuade collaborates with a diverse array of international and local service providers, including consulting firms, research institutions, and technical implementation partners with demonstrated experience in development programming. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for firms with proven track records in Lebanon’s socio-political context, emphasizing local expertise and diaspora engagement. She fosters long-term vendor partnerships built on technical competence, cultural competency, and adherence to U.S. government compliance standards, often leveraging task orders under indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) mechanisms to ensure responsive and scalable support. McQuade’s procurement portfolio reflects no set-aside preferences, with 100% of awards issued under open competition. This approach underscores a focus on merit-based selection and technical excellence over socioeconomic categorization, prioritizing capability and relevance to program needs over demographic-based preferences. While small business participation is not formally incentivized through set-asides, she evaluates proposals based on demonstrated capacity, past performance, and value for money, ensuring competitive rigor and program effectiveness. Her primary procurement focus is on NAICS 541990—All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services—encompassing technical advisory services, monitoring and evaluation, institutional capacity assessments, and economic policy analysis. She routinely procures services related to governance reform, agricultural extension systems, private sector development, and water resource management, requiring deep domain expertise in development economics and conflict-sensitive program implementation.