Mr. Rodney Stubina

Rodney Stubina serves as a key procurement lead within USAID/Senegal, supporting the agency’s mission to advance sustainable development across West Africa through strategic contracting for technical and professional services. He manages a diverse portfolio of acquisitions focused on institutional capacity building, governance support, and public health program implementation, primarily engaging expert consultants and technical service providers to deliver on USAID’s long-term development objectives. His work ensures alignment with U.S. foreign assistance priorities by securing high-impact, mission-critical services that strengthen local institutions and foster community-led solutions. Stubina collaborates with a broad network of international and local professional service firms, including management consultants, public health specialists, and governance advisors, often engaging firms with deep regional expertise in Senegal and the broader West African context. His contracting patterns reflect a preference for flexible, performance-based agreements that allow for adaptive program implementation, frequently utilizing time-and-materials and labor-hour contract vehicles to respond to evolving development needs. Vendor partnerships are characterized by long-term engagement, technical alignment, and a strong emphasis on local capacity transfer. Stubina’s procurement activity is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic focus on accessing the broadest possible pool of qualified technical expertise rather than socioeconomic set-asides, prioritizing mission effectiveness over socioeconomic classification criteria. While small business participation is not formally incentivized through set-asides, the nature of the services procured often naturally includes small and medium-sized enterprises with specialized regional knowledge. His primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 812990 (All Other Personal Services) and 541990 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services), indicating heavy reliance on individual consultants and specialized technical teams for program design, monitoring and evaluation, and institutional strengthening. He routinely procures services in governance reform, climate resilience planning, education system strengthening, and public health advisory roles, demonstrating deep domain expertise in development program implementation.