Sara Abdel Aal

Sara Abdel Aal serves as a key procurement professional within USAID/Egypt, supporting the agency’s mission to advance sustainable development through targeted technical assistance and institutional capacity building. She manages the acquisition of personal services contracts essential to implementing USAID’s strategic priorities in governance, economic resilience, education, and public health. Her work centers on securing expert consultants and technical advisors—both local and international—who deliver specialized programming, evaluation, and capacity-building services aligned with U.S. foreign assistance objectives. Her role ensures compliance with federal acquisition regulations while fostering partnerships that enhance local ownership and long-term impact. Sara collaborates with a diverse array of service providers, including international development firms, Egyptian civil society organizations, and subject-matter experts engaged as independent consultants. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for performance-based, outcome-driven engagements, often structured as task orders under indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) mechanisms. She works closely with implementing partners to define scope, evaluate technical proposals, and ensure adherence to U.S. government standards for quality and accountability in development programming. Sara’s procurement portfolio reflects a strong emphasis on open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions designated as “No Set-Aside.” While she does not prioritize socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs, her approach ensures equitable access for all qualified vendors, prioritizing technical merit, local expertise, and programmatic alignment over socioeconomic categorization. This reflects USAID/Egypt’s operational model, which values specialized capability over demographic-based preferences. Her primary procurement focus is under NAICS 812990 (All Other Personal Services), encompassing a wide range of technical advisory roles including policy analysis, monitoring and evaluation, workforce development design, and private sector engagement support. She routinely procures high-level consulting services in governance reform, economic policy, education system strengthening, and public health program implementation, demonstrating deep expertise in development sector contracting and performance-based service acquisition.