EleanoreArmand-Xavier

Eleanore Armand-Xavier serves as an Acquisition and Assistance Specialist at USAID/Haiti, where she plays a pivotal role in executing mission-critical procurement and assistance actions to advance sustainable development and institutional resilience. She manages a diverse portfolio of contracts and cooperative agreements focused on technical assistance, capacity building, and governance support, primarily through the deployment of U.S. and third-country national personal services contractors. Her work directly supports USAID/Haiti’s strategic priorities in health, rule of law, elections, economic opportunity, and infrastructure, ensuring that procurement aligns with U.S. foreign assistance objectives and federal acquisition regulations. Eleanore collaborates with a broad spectrum of professional service providers, including international consulting firms, local Haitian institutions, and specialized technical contractors delivering on-the-ground expertise. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for performance-based, results-oriented agreements that emphasize measurable outcomes in public system strengthening. She maintains collaborative relationships with vendors capable of delivering adaptive, context-sensitive solutions in complex operating environments, often requiring cross-sectoral integration and rapid scalability. Eleanore’s procurement portfolio is entirely non-set-aside, reflecting a strategic focus on open competition to secure the highest-quality technical expertise available globally. While she does not prioritize socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs, her approach ensures rigorous evaluation of vendor capability, past performance, and local engagement capacity, aligning with USAID’s global procurement standards and the need for specialized, mission-critical talent. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 541990 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services), encompassing governance, electoral, and institutional strengthening services; NAICS 236220 (Commercial and Institutional Building Construction) for infrastructure support; and NAICS 812990 (All Other Personal Services) for specialized technical personnel. She also procures health system support under NAICS 622110 and digital services under NAICS 519190, demonstrating deep expertise in integrating technical assistance with physical and institutional development across Haiti’s public sector.