Mary Mwadime

Mary ChaoMwadime serves as an Acquisition Specialist at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) mission in Nairobi, where she leads the planning, solicitation, and award of professional services contracts critical to advancing sustainable development in Kenya and the broader East African region. Her work supports USAID’s mission to strengthen democratic governance, enhance public health systems, and promote climate-resilient economic growth through market-based interventions. She primarily manages complex, performance-based acquisitions for consulting services, technical assistance, and operational support, ensuring full compliance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) requirements and USAID’s development objectives. Mary maintains a consistent working relationship with AMD INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC, a key contractor providing high-impact professional and technical services across multiple development sectors. Her procurement approach emphasizes outcome-driven contracting, often engaging vendors with deep regional expertise in governance, health systems strengthening, and private sector development. She fosters long-term partnerships with contractors who demonstrate technical excellence, adaptive management capacity, and alignment with USAID’s localization agenda. Her contracting portfolio reflects a strong preference for open competition, with 90% of acquisitions conducted without set-asides, while maintaining a deliberate 10% commitment to Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5. This balanced approach ensures competitive rigor while creating meaningful opportunities for qualified small businesses, particularly those with specialized knowledge of East African contexts. Mary’s primary NAICS focus is on 541990 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services), reflecting her specialization in strategic consulting, monitoring and evaluation, and institutional capacity-building services. She also regularly procures office administrative services (561110) and technical consulting (541690), underscoring her expertise in supporting complex, multi-stakeholder development programs through integrated, evidence-based procurement strategies.