Bernadette Daluz

Bernadette Z. Daluz serves as a Contract Specialist with USAID/Senegal, where she plays a pivotal role in executing procurement strategies that advance the agency’s mission of sustainable development and institutional capacity building across West Africa. She manages the full lifecycle of acquisitions for professional and technical services, ensuring compliance with federal regulations and USAID’s development objectives. Her portfolio primarily supports technical assistance, governance strengthening, public health programming, and climate resilience initiatives, often requiring expert consultants to advise local partners. Daluz ensures that procurements align with U.S. government standards while fostering transparency, accountability, and local ownership in program implementation. Her contracting patterns reflect a strong preference for non-set-aside procurements, with 100% of her awards issued under open competition, indicating a focus on selecting the most qualified firms regardless of socioeconomic status. While she does not prioritize specific set-aside categories such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB, her approach emphasizes merit-based selection grounded in technical capability and past performance. This reflects USAID/Senegal’s operational need for high-caliber, globally experienced professionals capable of delivering complex, mission-critical services in dynamic environments. Daluz’s procurement activity is overwhelmingly concentrated in NAICS 541990, covering all other professional, scientific, and technical services, with minor activity in management and technical consulting services under NAICS 541618 and 541690. She regularly procures expert advisory services, program evaluation, institutional strengthening support, and technical training delivery. Her work centers on engaging international and local consultants with demonstrated expertise in governance, health systems, education reform, and environmental sustainability, ensuring that USAID’s technical interventions are evidence-based, locally adapted, and sustainable.