Nancy Amayo

Nancy Amayo serves as an Acquisition and Assistance Specialist at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) mission in Nairobi, where she plays a pivotal role in executing mission-critical procurements aligned with Kenya and East Africa’s development priorities. She manages the full lifecycle of professional services contracts, from needs assessment and market research to solicitation, evaluation, and award, ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations and USAID’s development objectives. Her portfolio primarily supports technical assistance in private sector growth, public health systems strengthening, electoral integrity, and climate resilience, relying on high-caliber consulting expertise to deliver measurable outcomes. Amayo maintains a consistent working relationship with AMD INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC, a key contractor providing strategic advisory, monitoring and evaluation, and capacity-building services across USAID’s core programs. Her procurement approach emphasizes performance-based contracting and outcome-driven deliverables, fostering long-term partnerships with vendors who demonstrate technical excellence, local context awareness, and alignment with U.S. foreign policy goals. She engages contractors through competitive solicitations, ensuring transparency and accountability while promoting innovation in development solutions. Her contracting activity shows no reliance on socioeconomic set-asides, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a deliberate focus on selecting the most qualified providers based on technical merit rather than socioeconomic criteria, consistent with USAID’s global operational model for complex, high-stakes development engagements. Amayo’s procurement activity is exclusively focused on NAICS 541990—All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services—encompassing specialized consulting in governance, economic development, health systems strengthening, and environmental resilience. She routinely procures services such as data analytics, program evaluation, stakeholder engagement, and institutional capacity building, requiring deep domain expertise and adaptive management capabilities tailored to the East African context.