Contract Specialist

PGS is looking for a Contract Specialist to provide support services for the Office of Acquisition for a potential customer.

The successful candidate will assist in performing a variety of functions related to the procurement of supplies and services, ranging from simplified acquisitions to more complex multi-million-dollar negotiated acquisitions in accordance with the FAR.

Responsibilities:

• Assist in providing expert level advice relative to contracting and procurement.
• Provides authoritative advice and guidance on problems not susceptible to treatment by accepted methods; recommendations and decisions are characterized by breadth and importance. The contractor’s employee will be responsible for assisting the Government in the following acquisition functions.
• Assists in establishing a full range of contractual administration actions required for the acquisition program including the issuance of contract modifications, investigation and resolution of contractor delays, and similar matters.
• Performs in-depth review and analysis to verify progress. Initiates action to resolve contract-related problems affecting the ability to meet program goals.
• Assists in the procurement of contract requirements which are often among the most complex and difficult procurements. frequently involving critical and/or sensitive program efforts and multi-million-dollar funding commitments. Services include such efforts as construction, A&E, IT support services and a variety of others.
• Assists in assembling and drafting complex solicitation and contract packages for peer reviews involving various acquisition documents. Identifies best practices and assesses packages based on those points identified.
• Maintains, updates, and accesses a lesson learned and best practices database derived from the review and evaluation process of assigned solicitations.
• Assists in reviewing procurement requisition packages, analyzes the requirement, recommends revisions to the Performance Work Statement or specifications as necessary, and decides on the type of contract, milestones, and holds acquisition strategy meetings with the program officials.
• Assists in reviewing justifications for sole source and other required clearances and assists the program officials with preparing and/or finalizing documentation, as needed.
• Assists in conducting market research and prepares report to include industry trends, small business designations identified, and recommendation for set-asides and/or exclusions.
• Assists in preparing solicitation documents and incorporates most updated Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and DOT clauses and provisions, requirements for technical proposals with appropriate weighing factors, testing procedures, cost escalation factors, cost data requirements, and socioeconomic programs.
• Solicits proposals from prospective contractors.
• Assists in analyzing proposals for conformance with the solicitation.
• Performs cost or price analysis, including review of cost breakdowns to determine reasonableness. Coordinates the establishment of a technical evaluation committee to determine acceptability of technical proposals.
• Obtains required pre-award surveys to establish contractor responsibility and obtains audits and pricing reports to develop negotiation strategy.
• Assists Government in Negotiations with potential contractors.
• Recommends award to contracting officer via award determination memorandums, and ensures all proper procurement package, solicitation, technical evaluation, and award documentation is reviewed, finalized and uploaded in the PRISM contract writing system.
• Assists in plans, and/or administers complex procurements of goods, systems, or services with specialized, state-of-the-art, critical or scarce requirements and 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.
• Assists in the administration of contracts, including performance of termination actions, until final delivery and payments are completed and the contract is closed and retired; or works directly with the Contracting Officer’s Representative to ensure effective monitoring of contractor's performance through telephone conversations, correspondence, reports, vouchers, and visits for status of contract performance, scheduling, problems that have arisen and proposed solutions, verification of deliveries, and similar activities. Interprets contract provisions for contractors and for program officials and provides appropriate advice and guidance. Negotiates contract modifications.
• Prepares initial agency position on protests from unsuccessful bidders and renders or recommends a decision on claims arising under the contract.
• Assists with preparing written or in-person debriefings.
• Assists in conducting post-award conferences; resolves performance deficiencies; conducts all required actions with respect to contract termination; and prepares all supporting documentation (e.g. D & F's, Sole Sources Justification).
• Assists Government in full range of contract administration duties and responsibilities for assigned acquisitions including but not limited to modifications, addressing the Contracting Officer of any issues. Assists in evaluating proposed contract modifications, analyzes cost and price proposals with respect to modifications, contract changes, and claims; negotiates and prepares contract changes, modifications, and claim settlements.
• Assists in the development and/or reviews of complex contractual pricing arrangements and incentives characterized by multiple incentives requiring sophisticated contracting techniques, 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.
• Assists in performing price/cost analyses. Analyzes commercial pricing practices applicable to the commodities and the latest economic developments pertaining to increased material, labor, or transportation costs as reflected in the current price indexes.
• Analyzes cost and pricing data submitted by offerors to substantiate direct and indirect costs and profit.
• Determines reasonableness of prices or bids offered.
• Assists in audits or reviews major acquisitions of similar complexity, presents findings, recommends corrective actions and policy or procedure improvements.
• Assists in reviews, develops, and recommends business unit-wide or agency-wide procurement processes and systems, procedures, and policies.

Qualifications:

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree (Master's Degree preferred)
• Minimum 10 years or more experience to demonstrate proficiency of knowledge of Federal contracting law, regulation, policies and precedents, and related principles, policies, and procedures sufficient to plan, lead, review, or audit the most complex procurement functions.
• Must be an expert at promoting e-commerce, and supporting the use of automated acquisition systems, contractor performance evaluation systems, electronic invoicing systems, and other electronic systems facilitating the agency's move to paperless contracting.
• Knowledgeable of federal procurement laws, Federal Acquisition Regulations, and federal contracting online resources.
• Working experience and completion of FAC-C Level III training in the past.
• Certified Federal Contracts Manager certification through NCMA (preferred).

Clearance:

• Candidate must have a Public Trust

Place of Duty:

• Remote/ Washington, D.C.