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 planning, solicitation, and award of complex technical assistance and capacity-building contracts aligned with the agency’s mission of sustainable development. She specializes in procuring professional, scientific, and technical services that strengthen public administration, financial governance, and climate resilience across Philippine institutions. Her work ensures compliance with U.S. foreign assistance regulations and integrates best practices in performance-based acquisition, resulting in high-impact, locally owned outcomes through expert-led interventions. De La Torre collaborates with a diverse array of international and local consulting firms, research institutions, and technical service providers specializing in governance, economic policy, and infrastructure development. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, she consistently engages firms with demonstrated expertise in institutional capacity building, public financial management, and climate adaptation planning. Her contracting approach emphasizes merit-based selection, rigorous technical evaluation, and long-term partnership development to ensure continuity and local ownership of USAID’s programming. She does not utilize socioeconomic set-asides, with 100% of her acquisitions awarded under open, unrestricted competitions. This reflects a strategic alignment with USAID’s mandate to prioritize technical merit and programmatic impact over socioeconomic preferences, ensuring that the most qualified entities—regardless of size or certification—are selected to deliver mission-critical services in a competitive, transparent environment. Her procurement focus is exclusively on NAICS 541990, encompassing all other professional, scientific, and technical services. This includes contract support for policy analysis, training design, monitoring and evaluation, systems strengthening, and technical advisory services in public sector reform. Her domain expertise lies in governance, institutional finance, and climate-resilient development, making her a key conduit for delivering USAID’s technical assistance through high-quality, evidence-based contracting.