Sheila Samuels

Sheila K. Samuels serves as Deputy Executive Officer for USAID/Jamaica, where she plays a pivotal role in shaping and overseeing the agency’s procurement strategy to advance sustainable development and institutional resilience across the Caribbean. In this capacity, she provides strategic oversight for acquisition planning, contract execution, and compliance with U.S. foreign assistance directives, ensuring that procurement activities align with USAID’s mission to strengthen governance, public health systems, and democratic institutions. She typically manages complex, performance-based contracts for technical assistance, capacity-building services, and community-level program implementation, often requiring cross-sector coordination and local stakeholder engagement. While no specific contractor relationships are currently identifiable in the procurement record, Ms. Samuels engages with a broad spectrum of professional service providers, including international consulting firms, regional NGOs, and local Caribbean-based technical experts. Her procurement patterns reflect a preference for flexible, outcome-driven vendor partnerships that prioritize adaptive implementation, local ownership, and long-term institutional capacity rather than transactional service delivery. Ms. Samuels’ contracting approach shows no reliance on socioeconomic set-asides, with 100% of acquisitions conducted under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic emphasis on selecting the most qualified entities based on technical merit and programmatic alignment, rather than socioeconomic criteria, consistent with USAID’s global operational framework for high-impact development interventions. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 541990 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services), encompassing governance advisory, electoral support, and HIV/AIDS program management, alongside NAICS 812990 (All Other Personal Services), which includes specialized technical staff for field-based implementation. She routinely procures services in public sector reform, data-driven health systems strengthening, and regional coordination, demonstrating deep expertise in development programming requiring nuanced, context-sensitive technical execution.