Irina Bakradze

Irina Bakradze serves as an Acquisition Agent with USAID/Caucasus–Georgia, where she plays a pivotal role in executing the agency’s mission to strengthen institutional capacity and promote sustainable development through strategic procurement. She manages the full lifecycle of acquisitions for technical assistance and adaptive program support, ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations and USAID’s development objectives. Her portfolio primarily encompasses professional services that enable local stakeholders to design, implement, and evaluate governance, economic resilience, and green economy initiatives. Bakradze works closely with program officers to translate development goals into competitively awarded contracts that align with U.S. foreign assistance priorities. While no specific contractor relationships are currently identified in the dataset, Bakradze consistently engages a diverse pool of service providers, including local Georgian firms and international development consultants, fostering collaborative, performance-based partnerships. Her procurement approach emphasizes transparency, local capacity building, and alignment with USAID’s emphasis on adaptive management and stakeholder engagement. She prioritizes vendor responsiveness to context-specific development challenges and encourages innovation in service delivery models. Bakradze demonstrates a strong commitment to socioeconomic inclusion, with 66.7% of her acquisitions set aside for small businesses under FAR 19.5. Her contracting patterns reflect a deliberate effort to empower small and emerging enterprises, particularly those owned by women, youth, or underserved communities, in alignment with USAID’s inclusive growth agenda. She actively leverages small business set-asides to expand the pool of qualified local implementers and enhance program sustainability. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 561990 (All Other Support Services) and 541990 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services), reflecting her specialization in non-clinical, capacity-building services such as institutional strengthening, policy analysis, monitoring and evaluation, and technical advisory support. These acquisitions support USAID’s broader goals of fostering transparent governance and market-driven economic growth in Georgia.