Andrea Naranjo

Andrea Naranjo serves as a key procurement lead within USAID/Colombia, managing complex technical assistance and advisory contracts aligned with the agency’s mission of fostering sustainable development and institutional resilience. She oversees the acquisition of professional services that support climate-smart agriculture, inclusive economic growth, and governance innovation, ensuring alignment with U.S. foreign assistance objectives. Her portfolio primarily includes performance-based contracts for consulting and technical advisory services, often structured as cost-reimbursement or time-and-materials arrangements to accommodate adaptive program implementation in dynamic local contexts. Naranjo maintains a strong working relationship with AMD INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC, a primary contractor delivering integrated technical support across environmental and management consulting domains. Her procurement approach emphasizes long-term, capacity-building partnerships with firms capable of delivering multi-year, cross-sectoral solutions, often requiring deep contextual expertise in Colombian institutional frameworks. She prioritizes vendors with demonstrated experience in public sector reform, environmental impact assessment, and stakeholder engagement methodologies. Her contracting patterns reflect a deliberate balance between open competition and small business inclusion, with 80% of acquisitions conducted without set-asides and 20% awarded under Total Small Business Set-Aside authorities per FAR 19.5. This reflects a strategic commitment to fostering local capacity while maintaining flexibility to access specialized technical expertise. She consistently engages qualified small businesses, particularly those with expertise in environmental and management consulting, to ensure broad participation in USAID’s development initiatives. Naranjo’s procurement focus centers on NAICS 541620 (Environmental Consulting Services) and 541990 (Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services), with a secondary emphasis on 541611 (Administrative Management Consulting). She regularly acquires services related to climate resilience planning, policy analysis, institutional strengthening, and monitoring and evaluation systems, demonstrating deep technical fluency in sustainable development programming and results-based management frameworks.