Lauralea Gilpin

Lauralea T. Gilpin serves as a Regional Contracting Officer for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) mission in Nairobi, overseeing the acquisition of professional services critical to advancing sustainable development across Kenya and the East African region. In this role, she manages the full lifecycle of complex contracts aligned with USAID’s strategic priorities—including private sector growth, public health system strengthening, electoral integrity, and climate resilience. Her procurement portfolio is dominated by consulting and technical support services, ensuring that mission objectives are met through evidence-based, market-driven interventions. She works closely with program officers to translate development goals into legally compliant, performance-based solicitations under FAR and USAID’s Automated Directives System. Gilpin maintains a consistent working relationship with AMD INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC, a primary contractor delivering high-impact technical assistance across multiple sectors. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for established, experienced service providers capable of delivering complex, multi-year advisory services in dynamic operational environments. While she engages with a range of vendors, her partnerships are characterized by a focus on institutional capacity, technical depth, and proven regional expertise, with an emphasis on outcomes-driven deliverables rather than transactional procurement. Her set-aside preferences are overwhelmingly non-set-aside, with 94.7% of awards issued under full and open competition, reflecting a strategic emphasis on maximizing competition and value. Only 5.3% of awards are designated as Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5, indicating a measured but deliberate approach to small business participation, prioritizing capability and mission alignment over socioeconomic categorization alone. Her primary NAICS focus is 541990 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services), with significant activity in administrative management consulting (541611) and general support services (561990). She routinely procures technical advisory services, monitoring and evaluation frameworks, institutional strengthening programs, and logistical support for development initiatives, demonstrating deep expertise in managing high-stakes, results-oriented professional services contracts in complex international contexts.