Marie Helene Dos Santos

Marie Helene Dos Santos serves as a key procurement professional within USAID/Senegal, supporting the agency’s mission to advance sustainable development across West Africa through strategic contracting for technical assistance and institutional capacity building. She manages the acquisition lifecycle for high-impact programs in education, public health, governance, and climate resilience, ensuring compliance with federal procurement regulations and USAID’s development objectives. Her work centers on securing expert services from academic and professional institutions to deliver training, research, and advisory support to local partners, aligning procurement outcomes with long-term program sustainability and local ownership. Dos Santos cultivates collaborative relationships with a network of higher education institutions, think tanks, and specialized consulting firms with demonstrated expertise in international development. While no specific contractor names are currently identified in the data, her procurement patterns reflect a preference for entities with deep regional experience and technical proficiency in curriculum design, health systems strengthening, and governance reform. She prioritizes performance-based contracting and outcome-driven deliverables, ensuring contractor accountability and alignment with USAID’s results framework. Her contracting activity is exclusively non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under general competition, indicating a focus on technical merit and institutional capability over socioeconomic classifications. This approach underscores a mission-driven prioritization of subject matter expertise and programmatic impact over socioeconomic preferences, though it does not preclude small business participation where qualifications align. Her primary procurement focus is on NAICS 611310—Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools—reflecting a strong reliance on academic and professional training institutions to deliver technical assistance, policy analysis, and workforce development services. She routinely procures curriculum development, evaluator services, institutional partnerships, and capacity-building workshops, demonstrating deep expertise in educational and technical cooperation contracting within the international development sector.