About the Position: This position is within the U.S. Army Mission and Installation Contracting Command. Their mission is to provide World Class products and logistics support. This position will exercise full range contracting price and costs analyst service.

Duties

Evaluates the reasonableness of contractor's proposed prices through cost and price analysis by using accounting, auditing, forecasting techniques, improvement curves, and regression analysis. Analyzes cost for allowability, allocability and reasonableness Analysis Contractor's projected estimated costs for direct and indirect cost elements. Reviews advisory, technical and audit reports as well as input from other cost/price analysts on cost elements and sub-factors. Provides cost breakdowns and supporting rationale, including cost models, to determine applicability and price/cost reasonableness. Serves as a consultant on Source Selection Evaluation Board for evaluation of cost proposals for contracts. Act as functional/technical expert and sought out by other for advice and assistance. Establish customer alliances, anticipate and fulfill customer needs; translate customer need to programs projects. Reviews technical and audit reports on various cost elements, such as engineering, start-up-labor and escalation factors to determine the reasonableness of the various cost elements. Evaluates the contractor's experience, production and technical ability on current and previous orders. Reports findings, recommendations and conclusions. Forecasts price trends, economic factors, and efficiencies in production for future accounting periods using analytical techniques . Evaluate and determine admissibility of proposed cost elements for firm fixed price and cost type contracts. Recommends cost limitations to be imposed and the reasonableness of profit or fee utilizing the weighted guidelines approach, if appropriate. Integrates and implements solutions to diverse, highly complex problems across multiple areas and disciplines. Anticipates problems, develops sound solutions and action plans to ensure program/mission accomplishment. Forecasts price trends, economic factors, and efficiencies in production for future accounting periods using analytical techniques.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• This position requires Advanced Contracting Professional certification (formerly DAWIA Contracting Level 3) in the Contracting Career Field or must be able to obtain certification within 24 months of appointment.
• The certification completion timeframe may change from 24 to 48 months upon approval of DoDI 5000.66, change 3
• This position requires submission of Financial Disclosure Statement, OGE-450, upon entering the position, and annually thereafter.
• Overnight Business Travel up to 10% of the time
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance and access.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. Current Department of Army Civilian EmployeesCurrent Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army)Land Management Workforce Flexibility ActNon-Department of Defense (DoD) TransferPriority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) EligibleVeterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the education and specialized experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. Exemption: You are exempt from the education requirements above if (A) you are a current DoD employee, in any occupational series, who has served on or before September 30, 2000, as follows: (1) Served as a GS/equivalent-1102 position or contracting officer position with authority to award or administer contracts above the SAT in any Federal agency, OR (2) Served as a military member in a comparable military occupational specialty; OR (B) you are a current member of the armed forces who occupied a position within an occupational specialty similar to the GS-1102 series on or before September 30, 2000. In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: Specialized experience: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the NH-02 pay band or equivalent GS-11 grade in the Federal service which included experience 1. Developing mathematical cost models to evaluate cost; 2. Present cost or price analyses during negotiations; and 3. Evaluating cost and price analysis by using accounting and auditing data, forecasting techniques, and regression analysis. You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: Contracting/ProcurementInfluencing/NegotiatingPlanning and EvaluatingReasoning This is a DOD Demonstration Project position. Under the Defense Authorization Act, personnel management demonstration programs are operating in numerous Army activities and various other organizations supported by Army civilian personnel centers. Under the streamlined personnel operations for the demonstration projects, the familiar 15 General Schedule grade structure is replaced with broad pay bands that typically encompass a range of grades. For example, acquisition jobs in level NH-III of broad banding encompass the traditional GS-12 through GS-13 grades. Other initiatives under the demonstration projects include simplified job classification, streamlined hiring processes, and expanded developmental opportunities

Education

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.

Contacts

• Address AD-APF-W6QMAA MICC DO NOT MAIL Fort Sam Houston, TX 78234 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk
• Email: [email protected]