Mama NA Bana

Mama NA Bana, a non-profit economically disadvantaged women-owned small business based in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, provides logistics coordination, travel expediting, protocol support, food service, and urgent procurement services to the U.S. Department of State as a prime contractor operating exclusively in full-and-open competition with no set-asides. The vendor is a joint-venture structure combining non-profit and community development corporation ownership; all thirteen awards in the source record are prime contracts or delivery orders under a single indefinite delivery contract, with no subcontract work.

Mama NA Bana's customer concentration is entirely within the Department of State and USAID. The Bureau of African Affairs dominates both award count and dollar value, placing eight awards worth $400 thousand combined potential value, primarily delivery orders for travel expediting, logistics support, and protocol services in the Kinshasa region. The Bureau of Diplomatic Security has issued three awards ($143 thousand combined potential value) for marine cook services and MSG cook contract labor under definitive labor-hour contracts. USAID's Bureau for Management and the Department of State's Bureau of Overseas Building Operations round out the customer set with single awards for repatriation decommissioning and facility maintenance supply ($26 thousand and $14 thousand respectively).

The vendor's primary vehicle is a $185 thousand indefinite delivery contract with the Bureau of African Affairs (awarded July 1, 2023, running through June 30, 2026) for expeditor and protocol services. Five delivery orders have been drawn against this IDC, ranging from $21,375 to $41,601, for two-to-five-month periods of travel facilitation and logistics support. Representative work includes a $34,500 delivery order for expeditor services (July–September 2024), a $23,000 travel expeditor delivery order (October–November 2024), and recurring $23,000 two-month delivery orders for expeditor support (September–October and November–December 2024).

Activity has declined moderately — five awards in 2023, four in 2024, three in 2025, and one so far in 2026 — with combined potential value across all awards totaling $583 thousand and $354 thousand obligated (61% of potential). Only one award ($29 thousand) carries an ultimate completion date within the next twenty-four months, presenting limited near-term recompete exposure. The vendor's award portfolio spans food service (marine cooks, MSG cook services), travel and protocol coordination (expeditor services), emergency procurement (paints, household appliances), and asset decommissioning support, all concentrated geographically in Kinshasa and operationally supporting U.S. diplomatic and development missions across sub-Saharan Africa.