Beatriz Chinchilla

Maritza C. Sarmiento serves as an Acquisition Specialist with USAID/El Salvador, where she plays a pivotal role in executing the agency’s mission to strengthen democratic governance, institutional capacity, and rule of law through expert-led technical assistance. She manages the full lifecycle of procurement actions for professional services contracts, ensuring alignment with U.S. foreign assistance priorities and federal acquisition regulations. Her work centers on securing high-caliber advisory services to support local public institutions, human rights initiatives, and global health security programs, often engaging subject matter experts in governance, migration policy, and institutional reform. Maritza collaborates with a diverse array of international and domestic professional service providers, including consulting firms, research institutions, and technical advisory organizations with demonstrated expertise in public sector capacity building. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for performance-based, outcome-driven engagements, frequently utilizing task orders under indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) mechanisms to ensure flexibility and responsiveness to evolving program needs. She maintains collaborative, transparent relationships with vendors, emphasizing compliance, accountability, and value for U.S. taxpayer resources. Maritza’s procurement portfolio reflects a strong commitment to open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions conducted without set-aside designations. While she does not prioritize socioeconomic categories such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB, her approach ensures broad market access and competitive fairness, enabling the selection of the most qualified providers regardless of business size or certification status. Her primary focus is on NAICS 541990—All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services—encompassing policy analysis, institutional diagnostics, training design, and technical advisory services. She routinely procures expertise in democratic governance, judicial reform, anti-corruption frameworks, and migration systems management, ensuring that USAID’s interventions are informed by evidence-based, locally contextualized solutions.