Contract Specialist.

About the role

This position involves administering, evaluating, analyzing, and negotiating pre/post-award actions, planning acquisition, preparing cost and price analysis, conducting contract negotiations, and performing contract administration.

Responsibilities

• Administer, evaluate, analyze, and negotiate pre/post-award actions.
• Prepare cost and price analysis and conduct contract negotiations.
• Execute and oversee contract administration activities, including communication with suppliers and monitoring delivery schedules.
• Evaluate contractors' past delivery performance to determine contract option awards and provide information for pre-award surveys.
• Establish necessary administrative controls and procedures to ensure contract compliance.
• Plan, solicit, negotiate, and award contracts within locally specified goals.
• Provide pre/post-award procurement services in support of complex and diverse repairable and associated requirements.
• Serve as the central point of contact for pre-award contracting actions and perform work associated with a wide range of contract types and methods for the procurement of items, services, and materials.

Requirements

The position may be filled at either grade level; incumbents may be non-competitively promoted to the next grade level according to merit promotion regulations and upon management's request.

Specialized Experience

• Assisting with applying contracting principles, laws, statutes, regulations, and procedures applicable to pre-award and post-award actions sufficient to procure and administer contracts.
• Assisting with market research, acquisition planning, and preparing solicitations.
• Assisting with proposal evaluation and negotiations.
• Assisting with contract administration activities including communicating with suppliers, monitoring delivery schedules, and taking post-award actions necessary to ensure delivery of product.
• Independently applying contracting principles, laws, statutes, regulations, and procedures applicable to pre-award actions sufficient to procure and administer contracts for a variety of goods and services.
• Performing/overseeing market research/analysis to determine availability of the requirement by analyzing market trends, commercial practices, conditions, and technological advances.
• Independently preparing solicitations, evaluating the resulting proposals, and conducting negotiations as necessary to agree on a final contract price.
• Independently conducting contract administration activities including communicating with suppliers, monitoring delivery schedules, and taking post-award actions necessary to ensure delivery of product. Activities may include change orders, modifications, resolution of quality issues, and terminations.
• Conducting communications and/or discussions with vendors/customers.

Qualifications

• Basic Contracting Requirement: A baccalaureate degree from an accredited educational institution authorized to grant baccalaureate degrees OR a current civilian employee in DoD or member of the Armed Forces, who occupied an 1102 position, contracting officer position, or comparable military contracting position with authority to award or administer contracts above the simplified acquisition threshold on or before September 30, 2000.
• Contracting Officer Requirement for GS-12: At least two years of experience in a contracting position.
• Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience that equipped you with the particular competencies to successfully perform the duties of the position and is directly in or related to this position. For GS-11, this includes assisting with applying contracting principles, laws, statutes, regulations, and procedures applicable to pre-award and post-award actions sufficient to procure and administer contracts. For GS-12, this includes independently applying contracting principles, laws, statutes, regulations, and procedures applicable to pre-award actions sufficient to procure and administer contracts for a variety of goods and services.

Education Substitution

• GS-11: Three full academic years of progressively higher-level graduate or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree.
• GS-12: There is no education substitution at this grade level.

Additional Information

To qualify based on education in lieu of specialized experience, you must possess:

• GS-11: Three full academic years of progressively higher-level graduate or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree.
• GS-12: There is no education substitution at this grade level.

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