Elizabeth Morris

Elizabeth Morris serves as a key procurement lead within USAID/Nigeria, supporting the agency’s mission to strengthen governance, public health systems, and sustainable development outcomes through strategic contracting. She manages a diverse portfolio of professional and technical services acquisitions, with a focus on performance monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) frameworks, data science initiatives, and subnational governance capacity building. Her work ensures that technical assistance and institutional strengthening efforts are delivered through high-performing, locally aligned contractors who adhere to USAID’s standards for evidence-based programming and adaptive management. She plays a central role in translating programmatic priorities into compliant, transparent procurement actions that advance U.S. foreign assistance objectives in Nigeria. Morris collaborates with a broad range of international and local service providers, including technical firms specializing in health systems strengthening, data analytics, and public administration support. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, she consistently engages vendors with demonstrated expertise in context-specific implementation, MEL design, and capacity-building methodologies. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for flexible, performance-based agreements that prioritize adaptability and local ownership over rigid deliverables. Morris’s procurement activity is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under open competition. This reflects USAID/Nigeria’s strategic emphasis on technical merit and global competitiveness rather than socioeconomic preferences, though she remains attentive to equitable access and local firm participation where aligned with program goals. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 541990 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services), encompassing evaluation consulting, data management systems, and governance advisory services, with a secondary emphasis on NAICS 812990 (All Other Personal Services), including expert technical assignments and short-term consultants. She specializes in procuring services that enhance institutional resilience through evidence-driven decision-making and locally led innovation.