Nora Marinova

Ms. Nora Marinova serves as a contracting professional within USAID/Iraq, supporting the agency’s mission to build institutional resilience and governance capacity through technical assistance and expert services. In her role, she manages the acquisition of specialized personal services critical to long-term development outcomes, including advisory support in democratic governance, public financial management, and performance monitoring systems. Her procurement activities are strategically aligned with USAID’s emphasis on sustainable, locally-led capacity building, ensuring that contract awards facilitate the deployment of high-caliber technical advisors and subject matter experts to strengthen Iraqi public institutions. Ms. Marinova’s contracting patterns reflect a reliance on a broad and diverse pool of service providers, primarily engaged through individual task orders under personal services contracts. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, she consistently works with firms offering institutional development expertise, including international consulting firms, local Iraqi capacity-building organizations, and independent technical advisors with deep regional experience. Her approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, requiring rigorous deliverable tracking and quality assurance mechanisms to ensure alignment with USAID’s strategic objectives. Ms. Marinova’s procurement activity is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a deliberate strategy to access the broadest possible talent pool of qualified experts, prioritizing technical merit and programmatic fit over socioeconomic classifications. While she does not routinely utilize 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB set-asides, her process remains transparent and compliant with all federal acquisition regulations. Her primary focus is on NAICS 812990 (All Other Personal Services), encompassing contractually bound technical advisory roles in governance reform, accountability systems, and public service modernization. She procures high-skill, knowledge-based services rather than goods, emphasizing expertise in institutional diagnostics, training design, and policy implementation support tailored to Iraq’s evolving institutional landscape.