Claudia Figueroa

Claudia Figueroa serves as a key procurement lead within USAID/Honduras, supporting the agency’s mission to strengthen democratic governance, citizen security, and resilient market systems through strategic contracting. She manages the acquisition of technical advisory services critical to institutional capacity building, public sector reform, and rule-of-law initiatives, with a focus on electoral integrity, civic engagement, and migration policy development. Her work directly enables USAID’s localized development outcomes by ensuring timely and effective procurement of high-impact consulting services that align with U.S. foreign assistance priorities. She routinely handles complex, performance-based contracts requiring deep subject-matter expertise in governance and public administration. Figueroa collaborates with a diverse array of international and local professional service providers, including firms specializing in governance advisory, institutional diagnostics, and program evaluation. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, her procurement patterns reflect a preference for experienced, technically proficient firms capable of delivering context-sensitive, evidence-based solutions in complex institutional environments. Her working relationships emphasize long-term engagement, performance accountability, and adaptive management, often involving task orders under indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) vehicles to ensure responsive support. Figueroa’s contracting activity is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of awards open to all eligible vendors without socioeconomic preferences. This reflects USAID/Honduras’s operational emphasis on technical merit and global competitiveness rather than domestic small business set-asides, consistent with international development procurement norms. Her approach prioritizes capability and past performance over socioeconomic categorization, aligning with the agency’s global sourcing strategy. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 541611 (Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services), accounting for 75% of her activity, and NAICS 541990 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services), representing 25%. She procures services including governance diagnostics, policy design, stakeholder engagement frameworks, and monitoring and evaluation systems, demonstrating deep expertise in public sector reform and institutional strengthening within fragile governance contexts.