Samantha D. Brown

Samantha D. Brown serves as an Acquisition and Assistance (A&A) Specialist at USAID/Uganda, where she plays a pivotal role in executing the agency’s mission to build sustainable development capacity through strategic contracting and cooperative agreements. She manages a full lifecycle procurement portfolio focused on technical assistance, monitoring and evaluation, and localized service delivery in health systems strengthening, governance, and ecosystem management. Her acquisitions primarily support evidence-based programming aligned with U.S. foreign assistance priorities, particularly under PEPFAR initiatives, ensuring compliance with federal regulations and USAID’s streamlined acquisition procedures. Brown’s work bridges technical expertise with procurement integrity to advance self-reliance through locally led solutions. Brown collaborates with a diverse range of contractors providing specialized support services, including international and local implementing partners, technical consultants, and field-based service providers. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, her working relationships emphasize performance-based outcomes, adaptive management, and capacity-building partnerships. She favors vendors with demonstrated experience in Ugandan and East African contexts, prioritizing those capable of delivering culturally competent, data-driven interventions in complex operational environments. Brown’s contracting activity is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of her awards issued under general competition. This reflects USAID/Uganda’s operational emphasis on technical merit, value for money, and scalability over socioeconomic set-asides, though she remains compliant with all applicable small business and socioeconomic reporting requirements. Her approach prioritizes open competition to ensure the highest quality of services aligned with mission objectives. Her primary procurement focus is on NAICS 561990 (All Other Support Services), encompassing a broad spectrum of professional and technical support, including M&E frameworks, training delivery, data analytics, logistics coordination, and institutional strengthening services. She routinely procures services that enhance local institutional capacity, support health system resilience, and enable data-informed decision-making across USAID’s key sectors.