Natalya Komarova

Natalya Komarova serves as a key procurement professional within the U.S. Agency for International Development’s mission in Nairobi, where she manages the acquisition of professional consulting services critical to advancing sustainable development and democratic governance across Kenya and the East African region. Her responsibilities include designing, soliciting, and awarding contracts that support market-based economic growth, public health system strengthening, electoral integrity initiatives, and climate-resilient infrastructure projects. She operates within a high-stakes diplomatic and development context, ensuring that acquisitions align with USAID’s strategic objectives and comply with federal procurement regulations, particularly under the Foreign Assistance Act and the Federal Acquisition Regulation. Komarova maintains a primary working relationship with AMD INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC, a firm frequently engaged to deliver specialized technical assistance, institutional capacity building, and program evaluation services. Her contracting pattern reflects a reliance on experienced, non-traditional vendors capable of delivering complex, context-specific advisory services in fragile and emerging environments. These partnerships are characterized by long-term, performance-based engagements rather than transactional procurements, emphasizing outcomes over outputs. Her procurement portfolio is exclusively non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition, indicating a preference for selecting the most qualified providers regardless of socioeconomic status. This reflects a strategic focus on technical merit and implementation capacity over socioeconomic preferences, consistent with USAID’s global operational model. Her primary NAICS classification is 812990 (All Other Personal Services), underscoring her specialization in procuring expert consulting services—including political economy analysis, governance diagnostics, private sector facilitation, and resilience planning. She consistently acquires high-level technical expertise in development economics, public administration, and climate adaptation, ensuring that USAID’s interventions are evidence-based, locally grounded, and sustainably implemented.