Christine Edwards

Christine Edwards serves as a Closeout Specialist at USAID/Colombia, ensuring the timely and compliant closure of all contractual obligations under the agency’s development assistance portfolio. In this role, she oversees the final stages of contract administration—including financial reconciliation, performance evaluation, documentation archiving, and post-award compliance—to uphold accountability and transparency in U.S. foreign assistance. Her work is critical to maintaining the integrity of USAID’s mission-driven acquisitions, particularly those supporting long-term institutional capacity building. She routinely handles professional services contracts tied to technical assistance, policy advisory, and cross-sectoral program implementation, ensuring all deliverables meet programmatic and regulatory standards before formal closeout. Edwards maintains a consistent working relationship with AMD INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC, the agency’s primary contractor for professional services. Her closeout activities involve deep collaboration with this vendor to verify deliverables, validate performance metrics, and ensure alignment with USAID’s strategic objectives in economic transformation and governance innovation. While her role is administrative and compliance-focused, her engagement with contractors is proactive, emphasizing clear communication, documentation rigor, and adherence to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) protocols to facilitate seamless transitions from performance to closure. Her procurement profile reflects a 100% preference for non-set-aside acquisitions, indicating a focus on competitive, open bidding processes rather than socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs. This pattern suggests a prioritization of technical expertise and programmatic fit over socioeconomic criteria, consistent with the specialized nature of USAID’s technical assistance contracts. Edwards specializes in NAICS 541990—All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services—procuring high-level advisory services in climate-smart agriculture, inclusive economic growth, and institutional accountability. Her portfolio includes expert consulting, data analysis, policy design, and capacity-building support delivered by technical professionals, reflecting deep engagement with the international development sector’s most complex, knowledge-intensive services.