Selines Vasquez

Selines Vasquez serves as a key procurement professional within USAID/Barbados, supporting the agency’s mission to advance sustainable development and resilience across the Eastern and Southern Caribbean. In this capacity, she manages the acquisition of professional, scientific, and technical services critical to institutional strengthening, youth justice reform, and community-based violence reduction initiatives. Her work directly enables locally driven solutions by ensuring timely, compliant, and high-impact contract awards that align with USAID’s adaptive programming framework. She routinely handles complex service-based acquisitions requiring technical expertise in governance innovation, economic sector analysis, and social impact evaluation. Vasquez collaborates with a diverse array of international and regional contractors, including consulting firms, research institutions, and civil society organizations with demonstrated expertise in Caribbean development contexts. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for flexible, performance-based agreements that prioritize local capacity building and adaptive management. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, she consistently engages vendors with proven track records in public sector reform, data-driven program monitoring, and participatory design methodologies. Her procurement activity is entirely aligned with open competition, with 100% of awards issued under no set-aside classifications. This reflects a strategic emphasis on merit-based selection rather than socioeconomic preferences, prioritizing technical competence and local relevance over certification-based set-asides. While small business participation is not formally incentivized through set-asides, she evaluates all offers based on value, innovation, and alignment with USAID’s development outcomes. Her primary procurement focus is on NAICS 541990—All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services—encompassing program evaluation, policy advisory services, behavioral intervention design, and institutional capacity assessments. She specializes in acquiring technical assistance that supports governance innovation, economic resilience, and community-led security initiatives, demonstrating deep expertise in development-oriented service contracting across fragile and emerging contexts.