Sandra M. Byrnes

Sandra M. Byrnes serves as a key procurement professional within the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID/Pakistan), supporting the agency’s mission to advance sustainable development through targeted technical assistance and institutional capacity building. She manages acquisitions aligned with governance strengthening, economic resilience, and social development initiatives, with a primary focus on performance monitoring and evaluation, policy advisory services, and leadership development programs. Her work ensures that USAID/Pakistan secures high-quality, locally informed expertise to deliver impact-driven outcomes in partnership with Pakistani institutions and civil society organizations. Byrnes collaborates with a diverse array of professional service providers, including international consulting firms, local research institutions, and technical experts specializing in public sector reform and development evaluation. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for long-term, performance-based engagements that emphasize adaptive management and local ownership. She works closely with vendors capable of delivering evidence-based analysis, capacity-building training, and institutional diagnostics tailored to Pakistan’s complex development landscape. Byrnes consistently awards contracts under the “No Set-Aside” category, reflecting a strategic emphasis on technical merit and local expertise over socioeconomic classifications. While she does not prioritize 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB set-asides, her procurement approach ensures broad competition and encourages participation from qualified Pakistani and international firms with demonstrated capability in development programming. Her procurement activity is concentrated under NAICS 541990, encompassing all other professional, scientific, and technical services. This includes contracts for monitoring and evaluation frameworks, policy research, organizational assessments, and technical training delivery. Byrnes specializes in securing services that require deep contextual knowledge of Pakistan’s political, economic, and social systems, ensuring that USAID’s interventions are both technically rigorous and locally grounded.