diff --git a/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/backend_manager.cc b/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/backend_manager.cc
index 28804d2f76492..41e5aca08eab5 100644
--- a/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/backend_manager.cc
+++ b/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/backend_manager.cc
@@ -183,9 +183,13 @@ BackendManager::BackendManager(SessionContext& session_context,
   }
   if (session_context_.so_context_enable &&
       (subgraph_context_.is_ep_ctx_ovir_encapsulated || !subgraph_context_.is_ep_ctx_graph)) {
-    auto status = onnxruntime::openvino_ep::BackendManager::ExportCompiledBlobAsEPCtxNode(subgraph);
-    if (!status.IsOK()) {
-      ORT_THROW(status);
+    if (concrete_backend_) {
+      auto status = onnxruntime::openvino_ep::BackendManager::ExportCompiledBlobAsEPCtxNode(subgraph);
+      if (!status.IsOK()) {
+        ORT_THROW(status);
+      }
+    } else {
+      ORT_THROW("[OpenVINO-EP] Cannot export compiled blob as EPCtx Node: Backend not initialized.");
     }
   }
 }
@@ -660,6 +664,7 @@ void BackendManager::Compute(OrtKernelContext* context) {
 }
 
 void BackendManager::ShutdownBackendManager() {
+  std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lock(mutex_);
   backend_map_.clear();
   concrete_backend_.reset();
 }
diff --git a/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/backend_utils.h b/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/backend_utils.h
index ec3df94c2d1d2..15145df651fa2 100644
--- a/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/backend_utils.h
+++ b/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/backend_utils.h
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ struct ParameterShape {
     std::transform(ort_shape.begin(), ort_shape.end(), ov_shape.begin(), [](int64_t dim) {
       return dim == -1 ? ov::Dimension::dynamic() : ov::Dimension(dim);
     });
-    return ov::PartialShape(ov_shape);
+    return ov::PartialShape(std::move(ov_shape));
   }
 
   static ort_shape_t ToOrtShape(const ov::PartialShape& ov_shape) {
diff --git a/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/backends/basic_backend.cc b/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/backends/basic_backend.cc
index 61235ef2138b5..8b7309e6a5a98 100644
--- a/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/backends/basic_backend.cc
+++ b/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/backends/basic_backend.cc
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ BasicBackend::BasicBackend(std::unique_ptr<ONNX_NAMESPACE::ModelProto>& model_pr
         // model_file_path will use so_context_file_path if the onnx_model_path_name is not available,
         // especially in case of CreateSessionFormArray() where user must explicitly
         // specify absolute path for so_context_file_path.
-        auto model_file_path = [this]() {
+        auto model_file_path = [this]() -> const std::filesystem::path& {
           if (!session_context_.onnx_model_path_name.empty() &&
               std::filesystem::exists(session_context_.onnx_model_path_name)) return session_context_.onnx_model_path_name;
 
diff --git a/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/openvino_execution_provider.cc b/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/openvino_execution_provider.cc
index a0aa04293ac37..1b19517b07363 100644
--- a/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/openvino_execution_provider.cc
+++ b/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/openvino_execution_provider.cc
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ common::Status OpenVINOExecutionProvider::Compile(
     fs::path metadata_file_path = context_model_file_path.parent_path() / metadata_filename;
     std::ifstream file(metadata_file_path, std::ios::binary);
     ORT_RETURN_IF_NOT(file, "Metadata file was not found: " + metadata_file_path.string());
-    shared_context_->shared_weights.metadata_filepath = metadata_file_path;
+    shared_context_->shared_weights.metadata_filepath = std::move(metadata_file_path);
     file >> metadata;
   }
 
diff --git a/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/openvino_parser_utils.cc b/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/openvino_parser_utils.cc
index a78bd1fe2effc..21fc7f935da23 100644
--- a/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/openvino_parser_utils.cc
+++ b/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/openvino_parser_utils.cc
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ reshape_t OpenVINOParserUtils::ParseInputShape(const std::string& reshape_input_
   }
 
   // Process each tensor definition e.g. "input_1[1..5, 2, 3..4],data[1,2,3]"
-  for (std::sregex_iterator i = tensor_begin; i != tensor_end; ++i) {
+  for (std::sregex_iterator i = std::move(tensor_begin); i != tensor_end; ++i) {
     std::smatch tensor_match = *i;
 
     // Extract tensor name and trim whitespace
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ reshape_t OpenVINOParserUtils::ParseInputShape(const std::string& reshape_input_
     auto dim_end = std::sregex_iterator();
 
     // Process each dimension
-    for (std::sregex_iterator j = dim_begin; j != dim_end; ++j) {
+    for (std::sregex_iterator j = std::move(dim_begin); j != dim_end; ++j) {
       std::smatch dim_match = *j;
       std::string dim_value = dim_match[1].str();
 
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ reshape_t OpenVINOParserUtils::ParseInputShape(const std::string& reshape_input_
     }
 
     // Store parsed shape in result map
-    parsed_shape_map[tensor_name] = ov::PartialShape(dimensions);
+    parsed_shape_map[tensor_name] = ov::PartialShape(std::move(dimensions));
   }
 
   return parsed_shape_map;
diff --git a/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/ov_interface.cc b/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/ov_interface.cc
index c59cc92d6cfa9..2d29df8eb4197 100644
--- a/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/ov_interface.cc
+++ b/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/ov_interface.cc
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ OVTensorPtr OVInferRequest::GetTensor(const std::string& input_name) {
 }
 
 std::string OVInferRequest::GetInputTensorName(uint32_t index) {
-  return OvExceptionBoundary([&]() {
+  return OvExceptionBoundary([&]() -> const std::string& {
     const auto& model = ovInfReq.get_compiled_model();
     return *model.input(index).get_names().begin();
   },
diff --git a/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/ov_interface.h b/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/ov_interface.h
index f6bc5ad599e18..ee35a3ebef7cb 100644
--- a/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/ov_interface.h
+++ b/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/ov_interface.h
@@ -105,8 +105,8 @@ class OVExeNetwork {
 
  public:
   explicit OVExeNetwork(ov::CompiledModel compiled_model, std::string device, bool stateful_causallm = false)
-      : compiled_model_obj(compiled_model), target_device(device), is_stateful_causallm(stateful_causallm) {}
-  OVExeNetwork() : compiled_model_obj(ov::CompiledModel()) {}
+      : compiled_model_obj(std::move(compiled_model)), target_device(std::move(device)), is_stateful_causallm(stateful_causallm) {}
+  OVExeNetwork() : compiled_model_obj(ov::CompiledModel()), is_stateful_causallm(false) {}
   ov::CompiledModel& Get() { return compiled_model_obj; }
   std::shared_ptr<OVInferRequest> CreateInferRequest();
 };
diff --git a/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/ov_stateful_patch_utils.cc b/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/ov_stateful_patch_utils.cc
index 67ba42884e4f0..b48b0efde7ab6 100644
--- a/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/ov_stateful_patch_utils.cc
+++ b/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/ov_stateful_patch_utils.cc
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ void FuseCacheReorder(std::shared_ptr<ov::Model> ov_model,
 
   auto input_batch = ov_model->input(main_input_name).get_partial_shape()[0];
 
-  auto beam_idx = std::make_shared<ov::opset13::Parameter>(ov::element::i32, ov::PartialShape({input_batch}));
+  auto beam_idx = std::make_shared<ov::opset13::Parameter>(ov::element::i32, ov::PartialShape({std::move(input_batch)}));
   beam_idx->set_friendly_name("beam_idx");
   beam_idx->output(0).get_tensor().add_names({"beam_idx"});
   ov_model->add_parameters({beam_idx});
diff --git a/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/qdq_transformations/qdq_scales_fix.cpp b/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/qdq_transformations/qdq_scales_fix.cpp
index c1e4815c206a2..d159930d52845 100644
--- a/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/qdq_transformations/qdq_scales_fix.cpp
+++ b/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/qdq_transformations/qdq_scales_fix.cpp
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ struct CustomGraph {
           continue;
         }
 
-        auto scale_name = node->node_input_name[1];  // Scale
+        const auto& scale_name = node->node_input_name[1];  // Scale
         auto scale_value = get_initializer_value(original_graph, scale_name);
         if (scale_value / node->scale_factor < threshold) {
           remove_qdq_pair(*node, removed);
@@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ bool scale_graph(CustomGraph& gen_graph,
       if (cur_node->op_type == "QuantizeLinear" &&
           cur_node->to_node[0]->op_type == "DequantizeLinear") {
         needs_second_run = true;
-        auto scale_name = *std::next(cur_node->node_input_name.begin());
+        const auto& scale_name = *std::next(cur_node->node_input_name.begin());
         auto scale_value = get_initializer_value(gen_graph.original_graph, scale_name);
 
         // QDQ pair with scale over 1