About This Role
This role involves serving as a Contract Specialist, focusing on pre-award and post-award functions for complex, long-term contracts. The work includes procurements for highly specialized equipment, supplies, and services of significant importance, requiring analysis of cost and pricing data to determine reasonableness for major acquisitions.
Responsibilities
- Perform pre-award and/or post-award functions for procurements involving complex, long-term contracts on highly specialized, extensive, new, or innovative equipment/supplies and services of significant importance
- Analyze and evaluate cost and pricing data elements to determine price reasonableness for major acquisitions with limited precedent data available
- Terminate highly specialized and/or long-term complex contracts that affect a wide range of procurement activities or contractors' operations
- Conduct Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization and related programs for complex acquisition programs
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree (or higher) from an accredited educational institution
- At least 24 semester hours in any combination of the following fields: accounting, business, finance, law, contracts, purchasing, economics, industrial management, marketing, quantitative methods, or organization and management (can be obtained within the bachelor's degree or in addition to the degree)
OR
Exemption:
- Current DoD employee, in any occupational series, who has served on or before September 30, 2000, as a GS/equivalent-1102 position or contracting officer position with authority to award or administer contracts above the SAT in any Federal agency
- Current DoD employee, in any occupational series, who has served on or before September 30, 2000, as a military member in a comparable military occupational specialty
- Current member of the armed forces who occupied a position within an occupational specialty similar to the GS-1102 series on or before September 30, 2000
In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below:
- One year of experience preparing pre-negotiation memorandums and conducting negotiations with potential contractors
- Experience preparing the competitive range, post negotiation memorandums and the source selection decision document
- Experience closing out contracts
- Knowledge of contracting and procurement
- Skill in problem solving
- Ability to plan and evaluate
- Ability to communicate
Important Details
- Foreign education must be evaluated for U.S. equivalency
