Angela Garcia

Angela Garcia serves as a key procurement lead within USAID/Colombia, managing the acquisition of technical assistance and professional services critical to advancing the agency’s mission of sustainable development and institutional resilience. She oversees the full lifecycle of contracts supporting climate-smart agriculture, inclusive economic growth, and governance innovation, ensuring alignment with U.S. foreign assistance priorities. Her portfolio centers on complex, cross-sectoral engagements that require specialized expertise in environmental planning, engineering design, and policy advisory services, often involving multi-year, performance-based agreements with local and international partners. Garcia maintains a consistent working relationship with AMD INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC, a primary contractor delivering integrated technical solutions across environmental and institutional capacity-building programs. Her procurement approach emphasizes long-term, performance-driven partnerships with firms possessing deep regional expertise and proven track records in Latin American development contexts. She prioritizes vendors capable of delivering adaptive, evidence-based interventions that align with USAID’s emphasis on local ownership and sustainable outcomes. Garcia’s contracting patterns reflect a strong preference for open competition, with 100% of awards issued under no set-aside provisions. While she does not currently utilize socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs, her approach ensures broad market access and competition among qualified firms, prioritizing technical merit and implementation capacity over socioeconomic categorization. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 541990 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services) and 541620 (Environmental Consulting Services), each accounting for 40% of her portfolio, with an additional 20% in NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services). She routinely procures services related to environmental impact assessments, climate adaptation planning, agricultural systems design, and institutional strengthening initiatives, demonstrating deep expertise in technical assistance procurement for complex, multi-stakeholder development environments.