Deborah Perlman

Deborah Perlman serves as a key procurement professional within the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Georgia, where she manages technical assistance contracts aligned with the agency’s mission to strengthen institutional capacity and promote sustainable economic governance. Her work centers on securing expert consulting services that enable local stakeholders to design, implement, and evaluate development programs focused on transparency, resilience, and inclusive growth. She routinely handles acquisitions for adaptive management support, policy reform analysis, and capacity-building initiatives, ensuring alignment with USAID’s strategic priorities in economic governance and green transition efforts. Perlman collaborates with a diverse array of international and local management consulting firms, primarily engaging firms with deep expertise in public sector reform, economic policy, and institutional development. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for high-caliber technical partners capable of delivering context-specific, evidence-based solutions, often working with firms that have prior experience in post-Soviet institutional environments. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, her engagements consistently prioritize firms with demonstrated success in participatory program design and results-based monitoring. Her procurement approach reflects a strong commitment to open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions issued under non-set-aside authorities. She does not routinely utilize socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs, instead emphasizing technical merit and programmatic fit as the primary selection criteria. This reflects a strategic alignment with USAID’s emphasis on global best practices and the need for specialized, high-impact expertise. Perlman’s procurement activity is exclusively focused on NAICS 541618—Other Management Consulting Services—indicating a sharp specialization in advisory and technical assistance contracts. She procures services related to public financial management, anti-corruption frameworks, private sector development, and green economy policy design, requiring consultants with advanced analytical capabilities and field experience in Georgia’s institutional landscape.