David Strine

David Strine serves as a procurement lead within USAID/Caucasus/Georgia, supporting the agency’s mission to strengthen institutional capacity and promote sustainable economic development through technical assistance and adaptive program management. He manages the acquisition of professional, scientific, and technical services critical to designing, implementing, and evaluating development initiatives in governance, economic resilience, and green economy transitions. His work ensures that USAID’s interventions are evidence-based, locally led, and aligned with Georgia’s strategic priorities, focusing on high-impact contracting that enables local actors to drive long-term change. Strine collaborates with a diverse range of international and local service providers, including consulting firms, research institutions, and technical assistance providers with deep expertise in public sector reform, environmental sustainability, and economic governance. While no single contractor dominates his portfolio, his contracting patterns reflect a preference for flexible, performance-based partnerships that prioritize adaptive management and local capacity building. He engages vendors capable of delivering complex, context-sensitive solutions under dynamic operational conditions. Strine’s procurement approach is non-set-aside focused, with 100% of acquisitions awarded without socioeconomic preferences, indicating a primary emphasis on technical merit, value for money, and programmatic alignment rather than socioeconomic targeting. This reflects USAID’s global procurement standards, which prioritize outcome-driven competition and institutional effectiveness over domestic small business set-asides, though local Georgian firms are often competitively selected based on domain expertise and regional presence. His primary procurement focus is on NAICS 541990 — All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services — encompassing services such as policy analysis, monitoring and evaluation, institutional strengthening, and technical advisory support. He routinely procures expertise in governance reform, climate-resilient agriculture, public financial management, and anti-corruption systems, ensuring that USAID’s programming in Georgia is grounded in rigorous analysis and locally relevant innovation.