Sarah Botros

Sarah Botros serves as an Acquisition & Assistance Specialist at USAID/Egypt, where she plays a pivotal role in designing and managing competitive procurement strategies that align with the agency’s mission to advance sustainable development and institutional capacity building. She oversees the full lifecycle of acquisition and assistance instruments, including contracts, cooperative agreements, and grants, with a focus on technical assistance programs in governance, economic resilience, education, and public health. Her work ensures compliance with federal acquisition regulations while fostering partnerships that deliver measurable development outcomes through local and international expertise. Botros collaborates with a diverse array of professional service providers, including management consulting firms, technical advisors, and financial services organizations, to deliver high-impact development interventions. She works closely with both large international firms and U.S.-based small businesses, prioritizing vendors with demonstrated experience in public sector capacity building and development programming. Her procurement approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, rigorous evaluation frameworks, and alignment with USAID’s strategic objectives in Egypt. Her contracting patterns reflect a strong commitment to small business participation, with 25% of her awards designated as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, demonstrating a deliberate effort to expand economic opportunity for small, disadvantaged firms. While the majority of her acquisitions are open competition, she actively encourages small business eligibility and compliance with socioeconomic programs, ensuring equitable access to federal development funding. Botros specializes in procuring services under NAICS 541618 (Other Management Consulting Services) and 541990 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services), with a secondary focus on 541211 (Offices of Certified Public Accountants). Her portfolio centers on organizational development, financial systems strengthening, workforce training, and institutional governance support, reflecting deep expertise in public sector reform and development economics. She consistently seeks contractors with proven experience in complex, multi-stakeholder environments across the Middle East and North Africa region.