Shirley Neptune

Shirley Neptune serves as an HR Assistant at USAID/Haiti, supporting the agency’s mission to build institutional resilience through targeted human capital development. In this role, she facilitates the acquisition of personal services contractors who provide specialized technical expertise in health, governance, elections, and economic development. Her responsibilities include coordinating HR documentation, ensuring compliance with federal personnel regulations, and assisting in the procurement lifecycle for non-personal services contracts under the 812990 NAICS code. She works closely with contracting officers and program staff to align staffing needs with USAID’s strategic objectives, ensuring timely deployment of U.S. and third-country national experts critical to on-the-ground program implementation. While no specific contractor relationships are currently identifiable in the data, Neptune’s work consistently interfaces with a broad network of personal services firms—many of which specialize in public sector capacity building, institutional strengthening, and technical advisory services. Her procurement activities are characterized by routine collaboration with vendors offering expertise in governance, rule of law, and public administration, often under time-sensitive, mission-critical conditions. Her role ensures that contractor qualifications align with USAID’s standards for technical proficiency and cultural competency in the Haitian context. Neptune’s contracting patterns reflect a strong preference for open, non-set-aside competitions, with 96.5% of acquisitions conducted without socioeconomic set-asides. Only 3.5% of awards are competed under the 8(a) program, indicating a primary focus on merit-based selection of subject matter experts rather than socioeconomic preferences. This pattern underscores a mission-driven prioritization of technical capability over socioeconomic targeting. Her procurement activity is exclusively classified under NAICS 812990 (All Other Personal Services), reflecting a deep specialization in hiring individual consultants and contractor personnel to deliver direct, hands-on technical assistance. These services span public sector reform, electoral integrity, health system strengthening, and institutional training—domains requiring highly qualified, often expatriate, professionals with proven field experience in fragile states.