Jennifer Mascardo

Jennifer Mascardo serves as a key procurement lead within the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Global Health, where she manages strategic acquisitions to advance international health system strengthening and emergency response capacity. She specializes in securing technical consulting services that support the design, implementation, and evaluation of large-scale public health programs, particularly in low-resource settings. Her acquisitions focus on administrative and management consulting expertise critical to sustaining health supply chains, coordinating multi-stakeholder initiatives, and building local institutional capacity. Mascardo plays a central role in aligning contracting activities with USAID’s mission to deliver sustainable, evidence-based health interventions globally. Her contractor relationships are primarily with firms providing high-level management and administrative consulting services, including those with deep expertise in global health program design, performance monitoring, and systems strengthening. She engages with a broad spectrum of vendors—ranging from international consulting firms to specialized U.S.-based technical service providers—consistently prioritizing organizations with demonstrated experience in complex, multi-country health environments. Her procurement approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, rigorous evaluation criteria, and compliance with U.S. government standards for international development assistance. Mascardo’s contracting portfolio reflects a strong preference for open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions issued without set-aside designations such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB. While she does not currently utilize socioeconomic set-asides, her procurement strategy prioritizes technical capability and programmatic alignment over socioeconomic criteria, ensuring that the most qualified providers are selected to deliver mission-critical global health services. Her primary procurement focus is on NAICS 541611—Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services—reflecting her specialization in securing expert advisory support for health systems governance, operational efficiency, and program scalability. She routinely procures services related to health supply chain optimization, data-driven decision support, and organizational capacity building, demonstrating deep domain expertise in global public health management and international development operations.