Ms. Chipo Tembo

Ms. Chipo Tembo serves as a Program Specialist at USAID/Zambia, where she plays a pivotal role in designing and managing technical assistance programs aligned with the agency’s mission to strengthen public health systems, enhance agricultural resilience, and advance digital governance. Her procurement activities center on securing professional, scientific, and technical services that support data-driven decision-making, health information system integration, and supply chain transparency initiatives. She collaborates closely with technical teams to translate program objectives into solicitations that ensure alignment with U.S. foreign assistance priorities and local capacity-building goals, typically overseeing task orders under indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts and performance-based service agreements. Ms. Tembo engages with a diverse ecosystem of contractors, including international consulting firms, local Zambian technical service providers, and global health innovation partners. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, her procurement patterns reflect a preference for firms with demonstrated expertise in health systems strengthening, digital data platforms, and epidemiological surveillance tools. She fosters collaborative, performance-oriented vendor relationships grounded in measurable outcomes and adaptive management principles, ensuring contractors deliver contextually relevant solutions that align with Zambian government priorities. Ms. Tembo’s contracting portfolio reflects a 100% preference for non-set-aside acquisitions, indicating a focus on competitive, open procurement rather than socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs. This approach prioritizes technical merit and value-driven outcomes over socioeconomic categorization, though she remains engaged with local capacity development through performance requirements that encourage workforce training and knowledge transfer. Her primary procurement focus is on NAICS 541990—All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services—encompassing services such as health informatics design, monitoring and evaluation frameworks, supply chain logistics optimization, and digital governance platform development. She specializes in procuring technical expertise that bridges policy, data, and implementation, ensuring that USAID/Zambia’s interventions are evidence-based, scalable, and institutionally embedded.