Procurement Officer I
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We need to decide which sections to include based on content.
We have:
- Introduction: could be About the role (summary). We'll put About the role.
- Main Purpose of Job: could be part of About the role or Responsibilities. Might fit under Responsibilities.
- POSITION DUTIES: Responsibilities.
- Minimum Qualifications: Requirements or Qualifications.
- Desired Or Preferred Qualifications: could be Skills or Preferred Qualifications.
- LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS AND CERTIFICATIONS: could be Requirements or Qualifications.
- SELECTION PROCESS: maybe not needed (application instructions). We should remove application instructions. The instruction says remove application instructions. SELECTION PROCESS is about process; might be considered application instructions? It says "Please make sure that you provide sufficient information on your application..." That's application instruction. So we should drop SELECTION PROCESS and EXAMINATION PROCESS.
- Benefits: include.
- FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS: includes application instructions, drop.
- Also schedule info: we have schedule.
- Free parking: could be under Benefits or maybe under Schedule? It's a perk; could be under Benefits.
Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (maybe combine Minimum Qualifications + Licenses), Skills (Desired/Preferred), Benefits, Schedule.
We need to use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose.
We must preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include details from each section.
Let's extract content.
About the role: Introduction paragraph: "The Maryland Military Department is seeking a candidate for the position of Procurement Officer I. The role follows a compressed work schedule, Tuesday through Friday, 6:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Free parking is available." Also maybe include location? Location: "Fifth Regiment Armory 29th Division St. Baltimore, MD 21201". Also grade? "GRADE STD0016". Should we include? It's metadata but not job title or requisition; could be included as prose. The instruction: do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. So we can include grade and location in a short p.
Thus About the role could contain prose summarizing: seeking candidate for Procurement Officer I, location, grade, schedule, free parking.
Responsibilities: from Main Purpose of Job and POSITION DUTIES.
Main Purpose: "The primary purpose of this position is to procure all equipment, commodities and services under the Military Department’s delegated authority to meet the operational needs of the Military Department. Procurements are conducted and performed per the State Finance and Procurement Articles and the Code of Maryland Regulations Title 21. The other main purpose is to perform contract management/administration."
POSITION DUTIES list: bullet points (but in text). We need to convert to
- . Let's list each duty:
- Procure all commodities, equipment, and services for the various institutions and departments of the Agency.
- Develop and prepare solicitations to be advertised, conduct pre-bid/proposals, site visits, and conferences on advertised solicitations.
- Prepares and issues meeting summaries and addenda.
- Conducts market research for specification development, pricing, resources, and alternative solutions for requests.
- Process Corporate Purchasing Card (CPC) requisitions using an assigned purchasing card, as well as reconcile monthly statements in accordance with the Comptroller Credit Card manual.
- Make determinations for procurements per COMAR requirements - sole source determination, emergency declarations, rejections of bidder(s) and/or bids.
- Oversees the entire life cycle that makes up MMD's procurement and contract management processes and practices to ensure high-quality services across the Department.
- Establishes and tracks methods for data collection and performs examinations in order to provide a thorough analysis of all contracts.
We need to preserve all substantive information; ensure we don't lose any.
Requirements: Minimum Qualifications text plus LICENSES etc.
Minimum Qualifications: "Procurement Officer I- Option 1 Experience : Six years of experience, two years of experience in contract management or procurement involving duties such as: soliciting, evaluating, negotiating and awarding contracts and ensuring compliance with governmental procurement laws, regulations and conditions and an additional four years of professional contract management experience or professional procurement experience."
Then notes about substitution options. We need to preserve all that.
Let's capture the notes:
"Notes Candidates may substitute certification as a Certified Public Manager from the National Association of Purchasing Management; Certified Professional Contracts Manager from the National Contract Management Association; Certified Public Purchasing Officer or Certified Professional Public Buyer from the Universal Public Purchasing Certification Council (National Institute of Governmental Purchasing, Inc. or National Association of State Purchasing Officers) for the additional four years of the required experience. Candidates for Option 1 positions may substitute the possession of a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university and two years of experience of experience in contract management or procurement involving duties such as: soliciting, evaluating, negotiating and awarding contracts and ensuring compliance with governmental procurement laws, regulations and conditions for the required experience. Candidates may substitute additional graduate education at an accredited college or university, at the rate of thirty credit hours for the required experience. Candidates may substitute U.S. Armed Forces military service experience as a commissioned officer in Contracting, Industrial Management or logistics specialist classifications or administrative support specialty codes in the procurement or financial management fields of work on a year-for-year basis for the required experience."
We need to keep that.
LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS AND CERTIFICATIONS:
"Employees in this classification may be assigned duties which require the operation of a motor vehicle. Employees assigned such duties will be required to possess a motor vehicle operator’s license valid in the State of Maryland. Employees in this classification who have not done so already must obtain and possess certification as a Procurement Professional from the Maryland Department of General Services within one year of appointment."
We need to keep that.
Thus Requirements section could combine Minimum Qualifications and Licenses.
We could split into Requirements (Minimum Qualifications) and maybe Skills (Desired/Preferred). But we have also Desired Or Preferred Qualifications.
Desired Or Preferred Qualifications:
- One year of experience creating procurements within a government agency.
- One year of experience using the Maryland Financial Management Information System (FMIS).
- One year of experience writing conduct pre-bid/proposals, site visits, and conferences on advertised solicitations. (Note: seems typo; but we keep.)
- One year of experience in contract monitoring for a government agency.
- Certification as a Procurement Professional from the Maryland Department of General Services.
We'll put these under Skills (or Preferred Qualifications). Use
- .
Benefits: "As an employee of the State of Maryland, you will have access to outstanding benefits, including health insurance, dental, and vision plans offered at a low cost. CLICK ON THIS LINK FOR MORE DETAILS: STATE OF MARYLAND BENEFITS". Also free parking maybe but we already used.
Schedule: "The role follows a compressed work schedule, Tuesday through Friday, 6:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m."
We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown.
We'll structure:
About the role
... prose ...
Responsibilities
- ...
...
Requirements
... maybe combine Minimum Qualifications and Licenses into paragraphs? But we need to use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Requirements is a list? Could be prose. The instruction: Use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. So if we have a list of requirements, we should use
- . Minimum Qualifications is not a list but a paragraph with details; we could keep as
. Licenses also prose. Could combine into
. However there are multiple bullet-like items in the notes (substitution options). Those are a list; we could make them
- . But the instruction says use list for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. The substitution options are a list of alternatives; could be considered a list. Safer to put them in
- . We'll need to decide.
Simplify: Keep Minimum Qualifications as
containing the core requirement sentence. Then the notes as
- each substitution option.
Similarly Licenses as
.
But we need to ensure we don't lose any detail.
Let's draft.
About the role paragraph:
"The Maryland Military Department is seeking a candidate for the position of Procurement Officer I. Position located at Fifth Regiment Armory, 29th Division St., Baltimore, MD 21201, Grade STD0016. The role follows a compressed work schedule, Tuesday through Friday, 6:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Free parking is available."
That's prose.
Responsibilities: combine Main Purpose and duties.
We could start with a
summarizing main purpose then
- for duties.
But instruction: Use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So duties list should be
- . The main purpose could be a
preceding list.
Thus:
Responsibilities
The primary purpose of this position is to procure all equipment, commodities and services under the Military Department’s delegated authority to meet the operational needs of the Military Department, per the State Finance and Procurement Articles and COMAR Title 21, and to perform contract management/administration.
- Procure all commodities, equipment, and services for the various institutions and departments of the Agency.
- Develop and prepare solicitations to be advertised, conduct pre-bid/proposals, site visits, and conferences on advertised solicitations.
- Prepares and issues meeting summaries and addenda.
- Conducts market research for specification development, pricing, resources, and alternative solutions for requests.
- Process Corporate Purchasing Card (CPC) requisitions using an assigned purchasing card, as well as reconcile monthly statements in accordance with the Comptroller Credit Card manual.
- Make determinations for procurements per COMAR requirements - sole source determination, emergency declarations, rejections of bidder(s) and/or bids.
- Oversees the entire life cycle that makes up MMD's procurement and contract management processes and practices to ensure high-quality services across the Department.
- Establishes and tracks methods for data collection and performs examinations in order to provide a thorough analysis of all contracts.
Requirements: We'll have Minimum Qual
for prose. We must preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include details from each section. Let's extract content. About the role: Introduction paragraph: "The Maryland Military Department is seeking a candidate for the position of Procurement Officer I. The role follows a compressed work schedule, Tuesday through Friday, 6:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Free parking is available." Also maybe include location? Location: "Fifth Regiment Armory 29th Division St. Baltimore, MD 21201". Also grade? "GRADE STD0016". Should we include? It's metadata but not job title or requisition; could be included as prose. The instruction: do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. So we can include grade and location in a short p. Thus About the role could contain prose summarizing: seeking candidate for Procurement Officer I, location, grade, schedule, free parking. Responsibilities: from Main Purpose of Job and POSITION DUTIES. Main Purpose: "The primary purpose of this position is to procure all equipment, commodities and services under the Military Department’s delegated authority to meet the operational needs of the Military Department. Procurements are conducted and performed per the State Finance and Procurement Articles and the Code of Maryland Regulations Title 21. The other main purpose is to perform contract management/administration." POSITION DUTIES list: bullet points (but in text). We need to convert to
- . Let's list each duty:
- Procure all commodities, equipment, and services for the various institutions and departments of the Agency.
- Develop and prepare solicitations to be advertised, conduct pre-bid/proposals, site visits, and conferences on advertised solicitations.
- Prepares and issues meeting summaries and addenda.
- Conducts market research for specification development, pricing, resources, and alternative solutions for requests.
- Process Corporate Purchasing Card (CPC) requisitions using an assigned purchasing card, as well as reconcile monthly statements in accordance with the Comptroller Credit Card manual.
- Make determinations for procurements per COMAR requirements - sole source determination, emergency declarations, rejections of bidder(s) and/or bids.
- Oversees the entire life cycle that makes up MMD's procurement and contract management processes and practices to ensure high-quality services across the Department.
- Establishes and tracks methods for data collection and performs examinations in order to provide a thorough analysis of all contracts.
We need to preserve all substantive information; ensure we don't lose any.
Requirements: Minimum Qualifications text plus LICENSES etc.
Minimum Qualifications: "Procurement Officer I- Option 1 Experience : Six years of experience, two years of experience in contract management or procurement involving duties such as: soliciting, evaluating, negotiating and awarding contracts and ensuring compliance with governmental procurement laws, regulations and conditions and an additional four years of professional contract management experience or professional procurement experience."
Then notes about substitution options. We need to preserve all that.
Let's capture the notes:
"Notes Candidates may substitute certification as a Certified Public Manager from the National Association of Purchasing Management; Certified Professional Contracts Manager from the National Contract Management Association; Certified Public Purchasing Officer or Certified Professional Public Buyer from the Universal Public Purchasing Certification Council (National Institute of Governmental Purchasing, Inc. or National Association of State Purchasing Officers) for the additional four years of the required experience. Candidates for Option 1 positions may substitute the possession of a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university and two years of experience of experience in contract management or procurement involving duties such as: soliciting, evaluating, negotiating and awarding contracts and ensuring compliance with governmental procurement laws, regulations and conditions for the required experience. Candidates may substitute additional graduate education at an accredited college or university, at the rate of thirty credit hours for the required experience. Candidates may substitute U.S. Armed Forces military service experience as a commissioned officer in Contracting, Industrial Management or logistics specialist classifications or administrative support specialty codes in the procurement or financial management fields of work on a year-for-year basis for the required experience."
We need to keep that.
LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS AND CERTIFICATIONS:
"Employees in this classification may be assigned duties which require the operation of a motor vehicle. Employees assigned such duties will be required to possess a motor vehicle operator’s license valid in the State of Maryland. Employees in this classification who have not done so already must obtain and possess certification as a Procurement Professional from the Maryland Department of General Services within one year of appointment."
We need to keep that.
Thus Requirements section could combine Minimum Qualifications and Licenses.
We could split into Requirements (Minimum Qualifications) and maybe Skills (Desired/Preferred). But we have also Desired Or Preferred Qualifications.
Desired Or Preferred Qualifications:
- One year of experience creating procurements within a government agency.
- One year of experience using the Maryland Financial Management Information System (FMIS).
- One year of experience writing conduct pre-bid/proposals, site visits, and conferences on advertised solicitations. (Note: seems typo; but we keep.)
- One year of experience in contract monitoring for a government agency.
- Certification as a Procurement Professional from the Maryland Department of General Services.
We'll put these under Skills (or Preferred Qualifications). Use
- .
Benefits: "As an employee of the State of Maryland, you will have access to outstanding benefits, including health insurance, dental, and vision plans offered at a low cost. CLICK ON THIS LINK FOR MORE DETAILS: STATE OF MARYLAND BENEFITS". Also free parking maybe but we already used.
Schedule: "The role follows a compressed work schedule, Tuesday through Friday, 6:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m."
We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown.
We'll structure:
About the role
... prose ...
Responsibilities
- ... ...
Requirements
... maybe combine Minimum Qualifications and Licenses into paragraphs? But we need to use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Requirements is a list? Could be prose. The instruction: Use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. So if we have a list of requirements, we should use
- . Minimum Qualifications is not a list but a paragraph with details; we could keep as
. Licenses also prose. Could combine into
. However there are multiple bullet-like items in the notes (substitution options). Those are a list; we could make them
- . But the instruction says use list for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. The substitution options are a list of alternatives; could be considered a list. Safer to put them in
- . We'll need to decide.
Simplify: Keep Minimum Qualifications as
containing the core requirement sentence. Then the notes as
- each substitution option.
Similarly Licenses as
. But we need to ensure we don't lose any detail. Let's draft. About the role paragraph: "The Maryland Military Department is seeking a candidate for the position of Procurement Officer I. Position located at Fifth Regiment Armory, 29th Division St., Baltimore, MD 21201, Grade STD0016. The role follows a compressed work schedule, Tuesday through Friday, 6:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Free parking is available." That's prose. Responsibilities: combine Main Purpose and duties. We could start with a
summarizing main purpose then
- for duties.
But instruction: Use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So duties list should be
- . The main purpose could be a
preceding list. Thus:
Responsibilities
The primary purpose of this position is to procure all equipment, commodities and services under the Military Department’s delegated authority to meet the operational needs of the Military Department, per the State Finance and Procurement Articles and COMAR Title 21, and to perform contract management/administration.
- Procure all commodities, equipment, and services for the various institutions and departments of the Agency.
- Develop and prepare solicitations to be advertised, conduct pre-bid/proposals, site visits, and conferences on advertised solicitations.
- Prepares and issues meeting summaries and addenda.
- Conducts market research for specification development, pricing, resources, and alternative solutions for requests.
- Process Corporate Purchasing Card (CPC) requisitions using an assigned purchasing card, as well as reconcile monthly statements in accordance with the Comptroller Credit Card manual.
- Make determinations for procurements per COMAR requirements - sole source determination, emergency declarations, rejections of bidder(s) and/or bids.
- Oversees the entire life cycle that makes up MMD's procurement and contract management processes and practices to ensure high-quality services across the Department.
- Establishes and tracks methods for data collection and performs examinations in order to provide a thorough analysis of all contracts.
- . The main purpose could be a
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So duties list should be
- for duties.
But instruction: Use
- each substitution option.
Similarly Licenses as
- . We'll need to decide.
Simplify: Keep Minimum Qualifications as
- . But the instruction says use list for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. The substitution options are a list of alternatives; could be considered a list. Safer to put them in
- . Minimum Qualifications is not a list but a paragraph with details; we could keep as
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
- .
Benefits: "As an employee of the State of Maryland, you will have access to outstanding benefits, including health insurance, dental, and vision plans offered at a low cost. CLICK ON THIS LINK FOR MORE DETAILS: STATE OF MARYLAND BENEFITS". Also free parking maybe but we already used.
Schedule: "The role follows a compressed work schedule, Tuesday through Friday, 6:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m."
We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown.
We'll structure: