Svitlana Shkulova

Svitlana Shkulova serves as a Senior Acquisition and Assistance Specialist at USAID/Ukraine, where she plays a pivotal role in designing and executing complex procurement and assistance instruments to advance democratic governance, economic resilience, and public service modernization in Ukraine. She manages a portfolio of technical assistance contracts and cooperative agreements aligned with institutional reform, civil society capacity building, and private sector development. Her work directly supports USAID’s mission by ensuring timely, compliant, and impactful acquisition of professional services that enable long-term stability and recovery efforts in a conflict-affected environment. She specializes in non-construction services requiring high levels of technical expertise and adaptive implementation. Shkulova collaborates with a diverse range of international and local implementers, including specialized consulting firms, think tanks, and civil society organizations with demonstrated experience in governance, anti-corruption, and public administration reform. Her procurement approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, rigorous monitoring and evaluation frameworks, and flexible contract structures that accommodate dynamic operational contexts. She maintains collaborative, transparent relationships with vendors, prioritizing alignment with USAID’s technical objectives and local ownership principles. Shkulova’s contracting portfolio reflects a strong preference for open, unrestricted competition, with 100% of her awards issued without set-aside designations. While she does not routinely utilize 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB set-asides, her approach ensures equitable access for qualified domestic and international providers, emphasizing technical merit and implementation capacity over socioeconomic categorization. Her primary procurement focus is on NAICS 541990—All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services—encompassing policy analysis, institutional strengthening, electoral support, anti-corruption programming, and public financial management advisory services. She consistently procures high-caliber technical expertise to support Ukraine’s reform agenda, working closely with subject-matter experts in governance, rule of law, and economic policy to deliver mission-critical outcomes.