Tracy Miller

Tracy J. Miller serves as a Contracting Officer for USAID/Uganda, responsible for managing the full lifecycle of procurement actions that advance the agency’s mission of building sustainable development and institutional resilience in Uganda. She oversees the acquisition of professional, scientific, and technical services critical to health systems strengthening, governance reform, and ecosystem management initiatives. Her portfolio is centered on evidence-based programming, requiring rigorous monitoring and evaluation frameworks, technical assistance, and localized service delivery models aligned with USAID’s self-reliance objectives. Miller ensures compliance with federal acquisition regulations and U.S. foreign assistance policy while fostering transparent, competitive contracting processes. Miller’s contractor relationships are primarily with domestic and international professional services firms providing strategic consulting, environmental analysis, and administrative management support. She engages a diverse pool of vendors, including U.S.-based firms with regional expertise and local Ugandan implementing partners, ensuring technical alignment with USAID’s development priorities. Her procurement approach emphasizes performance-based contracting, outcome-driven deliverables, and capacity-building through vendor partnerships that enhance local ownership and sustainability. Her contracting patterns reflect a strong preference for open competition, with 91.7% of awards issued without set-aside designation. While 8(a) competed contracts account for 8.3% of her portfolio, she maintains a deliberate, limited focus on socioeconomic programs, prioritizing technical merit and programmatic fit over mandatory set-asides. This approach ensures that high-impact services are sourced from the most qualified providers while still creating pathways for eligible small businesses when appropriate. Miller’s primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 541990 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services), with significant activity in environmental consulting (541620), management consulting (541611), and other technical services (541690). She routinely procures services related to health workforce training, climate-resilient infrastructure planning, data systems design, and institutional governance assessments, demonstrating deep expertise in development-sector technical domains.