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.
• Plan acquisition, prepare cost and price analysis, conduct contract negotiations, and perform contract administration.
• Evaluate contractors' past delivery performance to determine if contract options should be awarded.
• 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 diversified 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

• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Tour of duty: Flexible.
• Security Requirements: Non-Critical Sensitive.
• Appointment is subject to the completion of a favorable suitability or fitness determination, where reciprocity cannot be applied; unfavorably adjudicated background checks will be grounds for removal.
• Financial Disclosure Requirement: Required.
• Acquisition Workforce Position NON-CAP: Defense Acquisition Workforce position. Must complete DoD certification and other requirements.

Qualifications

• Basic Contracting Requirement: A baccalaureate degree from an accredited educational institution or 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: Must possess 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.
• Education Substitution: Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work.
• Experience: Relevant experience in a contracting position.

Benefits

Details on benefits are available upon request.

Pay

Salary Range: GS-11: $82,289 - $106, 982; GS-12: $98,632 - $128,221.

Schedule

Flexible tour of duty.