Mariama Dalanda Barry

Mariama Dalanda Barry serves as an Administrative Management Specialist with USAID/Guinea/Sierra Leone, where she plays a pivotal role in supporting the agency’s mission to strengthen democratic governance, public health resilience, and conflict prevention across West Africa. In her capacity, she manages the acquisition lifecycle for professional, scientific, and technical services that underpin institutional capacity building, electoral integrity initiatives, and gender-based violence prevention programs. Her work ensures timely and compliant procurement of mission-critical consulting services, training programs, and technical assistance contracts aligned with U.S. foreign assistance priorities. While no specific contractor relationships are currently documented in the system, Ms. Barry engages with a broad spectrum of professional service providers—including international development consultants, governance experts, public health analysts, and local civil society organizations—focusing on performance-based, results-driven contracting. Her procurement approach emphasizes transparency, competitive solicitation, and adherence to federal acquisition regulations, fostering partnerships with firms capable of delivering context-sensitive, locally adapted solutions. Ms. Barry’s contracting portfolio reflects a 100% preference for non-set-aside acquisitions, indicating a strategic emphasis on open competition rather than socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs. This pattern suggests a focus on selecting the most qualified technical providers regardless of business size or certification status, prioritizing mission impact over socioeconomic targeting. Her primary procurement focus is on NAICS 541990—All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services—encompassing a wide array of technical assistance, policy analysis, monitoring and evaluation, and institutional strengthening services. She routinely procures expertise in democratic governance reform, health systems strengthening, and conflict-sensitive programming, demonstrating deep domain knowledge in the intersection of international development and public sector capacity building.