Contract Specialist

1 month ago


Springfield, Illinois, United States Department Of Homeland Security Full time
Summary

Securing Travel, Protecting People - At the Transportation Security Administration, you will serve in a high-stakes environment to safeguard the American way of life. In cities across the country, you would secure airports, seaports, railroads, highways, and/or public transit systems, thus protecting America's transportation infrastructure and ensuring freedom of movement for people and commerce.



Duties

This Contract Specialist position is located Enterprise Support (ES) Contracting & Procurement (C&P), Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Duties include but are not limited to:

  • Independently plans, negotiates, leads, and/or administers complex contracts/procurements of goods, systems or services with specialized, state-of-the-art, critical, or scarce requirements. These are characterized by a lack of any previous cost data, use of a wide variety of cost and fixed-price contracts, multi-year contracts and extensive use of subcontractors, frequent changes in terms conditions or funding arrangements, and similar difficulties. Resolves most problems and work issues without the assistance of others.
  • Develops and/or reviews complex contractual pricing arrangements and incentives characterized by multiple incentives requiring sophisticated contracting techniques and sharing arrangements such as cost-plus-incentive-fees or fixed-price-incentive-fees, where the agency and the contractor share cost risk, or economic price adjustment clauses for adjusting labor and material costs where price cannot be reasonably predicted at the time of negotiation. Established policies/procedures provide guidance for most assignments but allow considerable discretion for employee to select the most appropriate approach(es) or develop new approaches.
  • Manages all contractual aspects of a major program requiring long-range procurement planning and administers complex contracts which require day-to-day negotiations of significant contract changes, monitoring numerous special provisions, coordinating extensive subcontracting involvement, and observing rigid time frames. Audits or reviews major acquisitions of similar complexity and presents findings, recommends corrective actions as well as policy or procedure improvements. Contacts are internal and external; however, the incumbent may act as a point of contact to provide advice and guidance on the applications of policies and procedures.
  • Monitors contractor performance and a large number of subcontractor's while negotiating forward pricing rates and claims, complex changes, and terminations or contract close outs. Serves as termination contracting officer in connection with a major project in which several years of work have been expended. Reviews, advises on, develops and recommends operating unit-wide or agency-wide procurement processes and systems, procedures and policies, or equivalent assignments. Work is reviewed rarely, typically though status reports and at project completion, to ensure policy compliance and alignment with the requirements of projects and/or other work activities.
TSA is seeking highly motivated and experienced Contract Specialists to join our team at the I-Band (GS-13 equivalent) level. In this role at the full Contract Specialist performance level, you will perform the following duties:
  • Pre-award, solicitation, administration, and termination of contract awards;
  • Acquiring a wide variety of supplies such as systems, IT equipment, commodities, credentials and human capital solutions;
  • Purchasing and/or managing a variety of service contracts such as IT support services, financial management services, security equipment services, human capital services, and credential services;
  • Developing, implementing and reviewing contracting plans for pre-award, post-award, price/cost analysis and a wide variety of procurement activities;
  • Providing technical advice, guidance and legal interpretation in all areas of contracting.

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