Pauline Rashid

Pauline Rashid serves as a Personnel Assistant at USAID/Malawi, supporting the agency’s mission to strengthen institutional capacity and sustainable development through the strategic acquisition of technical and administrative personnel services. In her role, she facilitates the procurement of specialized consultants and support staff critical to governance, public health, and economic resilience initiatives. Her responsibilities include coordinating staffing requirements, managing task order issuance under existing contracts, and ensuring compliance with U.S. government personnel acquisition regulations. She works closely with program officers and human resources to align workforce needs with technical assistance objectives, primarily procuring short- and medium-term expert services to fill critical capacity gaps. While no specific contractor relationships are currently identifiable, Pauline routinely engages with a diverse pool of professional service providers, including international consulting firms and local Malawian firms with expertise in public sector management and technical advisory services. Her procurement patterns reflect a preference for competitively awarded, performance-based task orders under indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) vehicles, fostering transparent and merit-based vendor selection. She maintains a collaborative relationship with both large and small service providers, emphasizing quality, responsiveness, and alignment with USAID’s technical priorities. Pauline’s contracting activity demonstrates a strong orientation toward open competition, with 88.9% of awards issued under non-set-aside conditions. However, she consistently incorporates 8(a) competed set-asides in 11.1% of acquisitions, reflecting a deliberate commitment to fostering opportunities for socially and economically disadvantaged small businesses. Her approach balances broad competition with targeted socioeconomic inclusion, supporting USAID’s broader goals of local capacity building and equitable market access. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 541990 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services) and 541611 (Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services), reflecting a specialization in expert advisory services, organizational development, and public financial management support. She routinely procures services related to supply chain logistics, institutional strengthening, and technical training—domains requiring highly specialized knowledge and adaptive implementation approaches.