Ma. Belinda Y De La Torre

Ma. Belinda Y. De La Torre serves as a Senior Acquisition & Assistance Specialist at USAID/Philippines, where she leads the design, solicitation, and award of complex technical assistance and capacity-building contracts aligned with the agency’s mission of sustainable development. She manages the full lifecycle of procurement actions for professional services supporting governance, economic growth, and climate resilience initiatives, ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations and USAID’s flow-down requirements. Her work directly enables institutional strengthening of Philippine public sector entities through expert-led interventions in public financial management, infrastructure planning, and adaptive programming. De La Torre collaborates with a diverse array of international and local professional service providers, including consulting firms, research institutions, and technical assistance contractors with demonstrated expertise in development economics, public administration, and environmental sustainability. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for performance-based, outcome-driven agreements that emphasize measurable impact and local ownership. She fosters long-term partnerships with vendors who bring both technical excellence and deep contextual understanding of the Philippine development landscape. Her procurement portfolio shows no use of socioeconomic set-asides, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic focus on selecting the most qualified technical experts regardless of business size or certification, prioritizing capability and programmatic alignment over socioeconomic preferences. Her primary procurement focus is on NAICS 541990—All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services—encompassing advisory services, monitoring and evaluation, training design, policy analysis, and systems strengthening. She consistently procures high-caliber technical expertise in areas such as public sector reform, climate adaptation planning, and institutional capacity development, ensuring that USAID’s interventions are evidence-based, locally grounded, and sustainably delivered.