Job Title
Senior Contract Specialist
Location
Reston, VA 20191 US (Primary)
Category
Finance
Job Type
Full-Time
Career Level
Experienced (Non-Manager)
Education
Bachelor's Degree
Travel
Security Clearance Required
TS/SCI with CI Polygraph
Job Description
Enterprise Contract Services Support to provide cradle to grave contracting and procurement related support services for the DIA enterprise.
- Analyze project requirement from inception to closeout and develop solutions to agency's needs.
- Responsible for business improvement services in life cycle administration and management of contracts, contract negations; proposal guidance, preparation and management assistance.
- Duties include, but are not limited to, market analysis, purchase justifications, material lifecycle plans, bills of material, cost estimates, as well as product and service oriented draft statements of work.
- Provides services to coordinate and support development of customer needs statements, Requests for Information (RFIs) and Requests for Quotes (RFQs).
- Coordinates, reviews, and presents vendor responses to RFIs, RFQs and service requests, and acquisition planning.
- Prepares Request for Proposals (RFP)/Invitation for Bids (IFB) preparation guidance, market research/ analysis, and selection and administration of terms and conditions.
- Prepare contact awards and modifications for Contracting Officer signature.
- Performs initial cost and price analysis on proposals received.
- Supports the Contracting Officer (CO) during the source selection process.
- Drafts contract negotiation memoranda and contract modifications for CO.
- Support the CO in documenting evaluation of performance, contract termination and contract closeout.
- Create/Maintain Contract file folders, prepare solicitation documentation, and review proposals for compliance and contract modifications.
- Individuals shall also possess extensive working knowledge of the FAR and DFAR and agency supplements as required.
- Additional duties as assigned.
Job Requirements
- TS/SCI with CI Polygraph.
- Require 9-12 years of experience performing relevant actions specific to labor category with relevant experience within the last 2 years. Work is highly independent.
- Bachelor's Degree in an area related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
- Meets all qualifications and skills of a Mid-Level, to include:
- Demonstrates in-depth knowledge and understanding of the labor category activities required to meet mission requirements.
- Demonstrates mastery of qualitative and quantitative acquisition and program management analytic methodologies and pursues developments in academia or other fields that contribute to enterprise/corporate level process improvement.
- Demonstrates ability to design comprehensive, new, or unique process improvement enablers to further streamline Agency PPB&E facilitation.
- Demonstrates in-depth knowledge of acquisition lifecycle operations, including financial execution concepts, and provides knowledge management across organizational and intra-IC boundaries to clearly articulate key findings.
- Demonstrates ability to work independently and with minimal oversight.
- Demonstrates ability to review analytic program management data for cogent arguments, provide adequate support for conclusions, and routinely tests accuracy of analytic data
The salary range for this position is $148,000-$159,000.
