Maria Virginia Garcia

Maria Virginia Garcia serves as a Senior Acquisition Specialist at USAID/Dominican Republic, where she leads the end-to-end procurement lifecycle for technical assistance and capacity-building initiatives critical to the agency’s mission of institutional strengthening and sustainable development. She manages complex acquisitions in public sector reform, health system resilience, and government-to-government (G2G) partnerships, ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations and USAID’s foreign assistance guidelines. Her work directly supports U.S. foreign policy objectives by securing expert services that enhance Dominican Republic’s governance, justice sector modernization, and HIV/AIDS response capabilities. Garcia collaborates with a diverse array of international and local contractors, including technical service providers, think tanks, and implementation partners with deep regional expertise in public administration and health systems. Her procurement approach emphasizes performance-based contracting, outcome-driven deliverables, and rigorous contractor oversight. She cultivates long-term partnerships with vendors capable of delivering adaptive, context-sensitive solutions aligned with local institutional needs, fostering collaboration between U.S. expertise and Dominican stakeholders. Her contracting profile reflects a strong preference for open, non-set-aside acquisitions, with 100% of her procurements conducted under general competition. While she does not prioritize socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB, her focus remains on securing the highest-quality technical capacity, regardless of vendor size or certification status. Garcia’s primary procurement focus is under NAICS 921190—Other General Government Support—encompassing professional services in policy analysis, institutional capacity building, training, and technical advisory support. She routinely procures services related to public financial management, judicial reform, health policy design, and data-driven program monitoring, requiring deep domain expertise in development economics and public sector governance. Her work ensures that USAID’s interventions are evidence-based, locally owned, and sustainably institutionalized.