Rajiv Shah on Tuesday vowed to push ahead with controversial changes to the U.S. Agency for International Development’s procurement strategy following a review of the agency’s largest contracts. The goal is to strengthen in-house capacity and partnerships with actors in the field, the USAID administrator told Congress.
“I look and fully understand the need for change,” Shah told April 20 the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs. “The examples are everywhere.”
Leahy also prodded Shah on the timeline for the completion of the Global Acquisition and Assistance System, a software package USAID hopes will track more than $11.5 billion in acquisition and assistance transactions each year, according to a document on the agency’s website. The USAID administrator said GLAAS is scheduled for completion in June 2011.
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