Tracey Strawbridge

Tracey Strawbridge serves as a key procurement professional within the W2SD Endist Norfolk office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, supporting the Department of the Army’s mission to sustain and modernize critical military infrastructure across the Eastern United States. She manages a diverse portfolio of construction and engineering acquisitions, primarily focused on heavy civil works, facility upgrades, and base modernization initiatives. Her responsibilities include planning, soliciting, awarding, and administering contracts that ensure operational readiness through resilient infrastructure, including military housing, administrative facilities, and utility systems. Strawbridge’s work directly enables force protection and long-term installation resilience through strategic contracting aligned with Army engineering priorities. She maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of experienced contractors, including Clark Construction Group LLC, Sawyer Services Inc, Vanar Eastern JV1, LLC, and Ritz Construction Inc., all of which have demonstrated proven capability in delivering complex civil and institutional construction projects. These partnerships reflect a preference for firms with established track records in military construction environments, characterized by rigorous compliance, schedule discipline, and technical proficiency in defense-specific standards. Strawbridge’s contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes and risk mitigation through vendor reliability and past performance evaluation. Strawbridge exhibits a strong commitment to small business participation, with 42.9% of her acquisitions structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, reflecting a deliberate effort to expand economic opportunity within the defense construction sector. While the majority of her portfolio remains open to all competitors, her consistent use of small business set-asides underscores a strategic alignment with federal socioeconomic goals and Army-wide initiatives to broaden contractor diversity. Her procurement focus is concentrated in NAICS 237990 (Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction), encompassing infrastructure projects such as roads, airfields, and drainage systems, with additional activity in port and harbor operations, commercial building construction, and building systems installation. She specializes in procuring integrated construction services requiring multidisciplinary expertise, including plumbing, HVAC, and landscaping, demonstrating deep technical familiarity with military construction standards and lifecycle facility management.