Marilou Holandez

Marilou Holandez serves as a Contract Specialist with USAID/Pakistan, where she plays a pivotal role in executing procurements that advance the agency’s mission of sustainable development and institutional capacity building. She manages the full lifecycle of acquisition actions for professional, scientific, and technical services, ensuring compliance with federal regulations and USAID’s development objectives. Her work directly supports strategic priorities including governance strengthening, economic resilience, and social development through performance monitoring, policy advisory, and leadership development initiatives. Holandez is responsible for drafting solicitation documents, evaluating proposals, conducting source selection, and administering contracts with local and international service providers aligned with USAID’s localization agenda. Her contractor relationships are primarily with professional service firms offering technical assistance, evaluation, and capacity-building expertise. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, she consistently engages a diverse pool of vendors—including local Pakistani institutions, international consulting firms, and subject-matter experts—with an emphasis on performance-based outcomes and adaptive management. Her procurement approach prioritizes transparency, competitive bidding, and alignment with USAID’s commitment to local ownership and sustainable impact. Holandez’s contracting activity reflects a 100% non-set-aside profile, indicating a preference for open competition across all socioeconomic categories. This approach underscores her focus on selecting the most qualified providers based on technical merit and value for development outcomes, rather than socioeconomic classifications. While she does not prioritize 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB set-asides, her process remains fully compliant with federal small business participation goals and encourages broad vendor participation. Her primary procurement focus is on NAICS 541990—All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services—encompassing performance evaluation, policy analysis, training design, and institutional strengthening services. She routinely procures technical assistance in governance, economic policy, and social development, requiring deep domain expertise in development economics, public administration, and monitoring and evaluation frameworks.