Senior Contract Specialist

We are seeking a Senior Contract Specialist to join our team! The individual must have cradle to grave FAR acquisition experience. This is a full-time telework position; however, we are looking to hire individuals in the greater Washington, DC metro area. (VA/MD/DC)

Duties and Responsibilities

• Works closely with program officials on acquisition and administrative matters affecting major procurement of supplies and services using source selection procedures; the evaluation of contract technical and price proposals; and the administration, termination and closeout of major contracts.
• During the pre-award phase, develops statements of work and procurement strategy; and develops evaluation plans, pricing methodologies, and contract administration.
• Conducts and utilizes price/cost analysis techniques to support the development of cost-related sections of solicitation documents and the analysis of cost and price data, labor and material cost, etc.
• Develops IGCEs and budgets for planned procurements. Analyzes and evaluates cost-related areas of solicitations for pricing structure and instruction to offerors.  Assesses contractor price/cost quotes for new procurements, changes, and follow-on procurements.
• Evaluates contract price quotes.
• During the award, post-award, and closeout phases, performs contract administration activities for selected contracts and assists in the monitoring of contractor’s performance, approval of progress payments, and verification of deliveries.
• Negotiates and supports modifications to contracts and conducts analysis of alternatives.
• Manages contract administration activities for long-term, extensive technical service contracts, ranging from Firm-Fixed-Price through Fixed-Price-Incentive and Fixed-Price-Award fee. Administers, terminates, and conducts contract closeout.
• Monitors contractor’s performance, approval of progress payments, reviewing and providing recommendations on contractor proposals resulting from change orders, scheduling, issues, etc.; interprets contract provisions and provides appropriate advice and guidance; and conducts in-depth analyses of contractors’ financial and management systems/facilities for compliance.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university, 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.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in federal government contracting, at least one of these years must be specialized experience equivalent to the federal government GS-14 grade level.
• DAWIA or FAC-C certification, or other commercial qualifications (NCMA - CFCM, CPCM) preferred.
• Mastery of contracting methods, contract types, and pre-and post-award contracting policies and procedures.
• Knowledge of contracting principles, laws, statues, Executive Orders, regulations and procedures applicable to pre-award and/or post-award actions sufficient to procure and/or administer contracts for a variety of specialized equipment, services, and/or construction, or to conduct studies of problem areas and develop standard methods and operating procedures.
• High level competency with MS Office applications (MS Word, Excel, VISIO, and PowerPoint)
• Experience using SharePoint for storage of electronic files and accessing SOPs, templates, and calendars.