Elizabeth Surette

Elizabeth Surette serves as a key procurement lead within the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Mission Operations and Administrative Affairs office (7200AA), where she manages strategic acquisitions aligned with the agency’s global development mission. Her responsibilities encompass the full lifecycle of contract actions supporting institutional capacity building, governance reform, and emergency response coordination in partner nations. She specializes in technical assistance contracts, policy advisory services, and program implementation support, ensuring alignment with U.S. foreign policy objectives and international development best practices. Her acquisitions are mission-critical, often involving complex, multi-year engagements requiring high levels of coordination with diplomatic and field-based stakeholders. Surette maintains a consistent working relationship with AMD INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC, a primary contractor delivering specialized technical services in governance strengthening, electoral support, and public sector modernization. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for established vendors with proven expertise in international development contexts, indicating a focus on reliability, institutional knowledge, and cross-cultural implementation capacity. While she engages with a limited pool of core contractors, her approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes and long-term partnership over transactional procurement. Her procurement portfolio exhibits no set-aside preferences, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic emphasis on technical merit and institutional capability over socioeconomic categorizations, aligning with USAID’s global operational needs where specialized expertise often outweighs small business participation mandates. Her approach prioritizes mission effectiveness and program continuity over socioeconomic contracting targets. The technical domains she supports center on governance, democratic engagement, and institutional resilience—procuring services such as public administration training, election monitoring systems, anti-corruption frameworks, and crisis response coordination tools. While NAICS data is unavailable, her acquisitions clearly target professional services in international development, public policy consulting, and institutional capacity enhancement, demonstrating deep domain expertise in complex, context-sensitive development programming.