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. Her work centers on procuring professional services that strengthen public sector governance, financial management, infrastructure resilience, and climate adaptation initiatives across the Philippines. She manages the full lifecycle of acquisitions—from needs assessment and market research to contract administration—ensuring compliance with federal regulations and USAID’s development objectives. Her portfolio primarily supports institutional strengthening through expert-led interventions delivered by local and international technical consultants. While no specific contractor relationships are currently identifiable in the dataset, De La Torre routinely engages with a diverse pool of professional service providers, including international development firms, local research institutions, and technical consultants with demonstrated expertise in public administration and environmental resilience. Her procurement approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, competitive bidding, and rigorous evaluation of technical proposals over cost alone, fostering long-term partnerships grounded in subject-matter proficiency and local context. De La Torre’s contracting activity reflects a strong preference for open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions classified as “No Set-Aside.” This indicates a focus on selecting the most qualified providers regardless of socioeconomic status, consistent with USAID’s emphasis on technical merit and programmatic impact rather than socioeconomic set-asides. While small business participation is not formally prioritized through designated set-aside programs, she ensures fair access for all eligible vendors through transparent and competitive processes. Her procurement focus is exclusively under NAICS 541990—All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services—encompassing advisory services in governance reform, institutional capacity building, climate risk assessment, and public financial management. She specializes in securing non-standard, knowledge-intensive services requiring deep domain expertise, often involving multi-disciplinary teams delivering technical assistance to government agencies and civil society organizations.