Fatumah Mutaasa

Fatumah Mutaasa serves as an Acquisition & Assistance Assistant at USAID/Uganda, supporting the agency’s mission to build sustainable development and institutional resilience through strategic procurement of technical services. In this role, she facilitates the full lifecycle of acquisition and assistance instruments, ensuring compliance with federal regulations and USAID’s development objectives. Her work centers on procuring professional, scientific, and technical services that advance health systems strengthening, governance, and ecosystem management—particularly under PEPFAR and other evidence-based programming initiatives. She collaborates closely with program officers, financial managers, and legal advisors to align contracting actions with strategic priorities and donor requirements. Fatumah works with a diverse array of international and local service providers, including consulting firms, research institutions, and technical assistance organizations specializing in public health, monitoring and evaluation, and institutional capacity building. Her procurement patterns reflect a preference for performance-based, outcome-driven contracts that emphasize local ownership and adaptive management. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, she consistently engages vendors with demonstrated expertise in Ugandan context-specific challenges and a track record of successful implementation in complex operating environments. Fatumah’s contracting activity is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of procurements conducted under open competition. This reflects USAID/Uganda’s emphasis on technical merit and value for money over socioeconomic preferences, though she remains attentive to equitable access and local participation through competitive, transparent processes that encourage broad vendor engagement. Her primary procurement focus is on NAICS 541990—All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services—encompassing technical advisory services, data analysis, training, and evaluation support. She routinely manages contracts for health system diagnostics, governance assessments, climate resilience planning, and M&E frameworks, demonstrating deep familiarity with USAID’s technical domains and the need for context-sensitive, high-quality service delivery.