Mandy Parham-Seotsanyana

Mandy Parham-Seotsanyana serves as a key procurement professional within USAID/Thailand, supporting the agency’s mission to advance regional resilience through strategic technical assistance and capacity-building initiatives. In this role, she manages the acquisition of professional services critical to public health, environmental sustainability, governance, and inclusive development programs across Southeast Asia. Her responsibilities include planning, soliciting, and awarding contracts for expert advisory services, ensuring alignment with U.S. foreign assistance priorities and compliance with federal acquisition regulations. She routinely handles complex, performance-based acquisitions requiring specialized technical knowledge and adaptive implementation frameworks. Parham-Seotsanyana collaborates with a diverse array of international and local service providers, including consulting firms, research institutions, and technical implementation partners with demonstrated expertise in development programming. Her contractor relationships are characterized by long-term, performance-driven engagements rather than transactional procurements, emphasizing outcomes over outputs. She works closely with vendors capable of delivering adaptive management, communications strategy, and field-based technical support in complex, multi-stakeholder environments. Her procurement activity is entirely non-set-aside, reflecting a focus on global competitiveness and the need for specialized, often internationally sourced expertise. While she does not prioritize socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB, her approach ensures full and open competition to secure the highest-quality technical capacity available globally. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 541990 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services) and 541618 (Other Management Consulting Services), encompassing services such as program evaluation, policy analysis, communications strategy, and institutional strengthening. She routinely acquires expertise in malaria eradication, climate adaptation, and governance reform, relying on contractors with deep regional experience and proven methodologies in evidence-based development programming.