This position is part of the Department of the Interior (DOI), Office of the Secretary (OS), Interior Business Center (IBC), Acquisition Services Directorate (AQD). The incumbent will be responsible for pre-award and/or post-award functions for a broad range of complex, multidisciplinary, multi-agency contracts, and interagency agreements, including research and development contracts.

Duties

Performs compliant and mission-focused pre-award and post-award functions for a full range of acquisition activities in support of a fee-for-service acquisition shared services provider; Researches, analyzes, and applies governing acquisition, agency, organizational regulations and policies, to include those that are customer-specific, in order to deliver compliant acquisition services; Conducts acquisition planning in coordination with the technical program office, and determining the recommended contractual strategy to be used in the acquisition of a specific program element; processing, analyzing, evaluating, and performing price analysis; providing input for the competitive range determinations and developing a pre-negotiation position for proposals; Serves as a member of a negotiating team responsible for planning, coordinating, and negotiating a variety of procurements; Applies technical acquisition knowledge and utilizing efficient acquisitions processes and good business management to ensure timely delivery of acquisition services to the customer.

Requirements

Qualifications

ALL APPLICANTS FOR THE CONTRACT SPECIALIST, GS-1102-13, POSITION MUST POSSESS THE FOLLOWING BASIC REQUIREMENTS: A 4-year course of study in any field leading to a bachelor's degree that included 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 (NOTE: You are required to submit your unofficial college transcripts from an appropriately accredited educational institution in order to document completion of the educational requirements for this position. The unofficial transcripts must be legible and include your name, major, school name/location, course title/number, date completed, grade, number of credits earned, and degree(s) conferred. In the case that your transcripts do not show that a degree was conferred, you may submit your unofficial transcripts AND a copy of your degree certification. If selected, official transcripts will be required prior to establishing an entrance on duty date.) AND At least 4 years experience in contracting or related positions - 1 year of which is specialized experience or equivalent to work at the next lower level in the Federal service. AND One of the following: A current Federal Acquisition Certification - Contracting (FAC-C) Level I or higher certificate A current DoD Contracting Professional Certification In the case you do not have one of the certifications listed above, the following FAC-C Level I courses are required: CON 091 - Contract Fundamentals; CON 100 Shaping Smart Business Arrangements OR FCN 101 Contracting Basics; CON 121 Contract Planning; CON 124 Contract Execution; CON 127 Contract Management; FAC 023 Basic Contracting for GSA Schedules; FAC 031 Small Business Programs; CLC 056 Analyzing Contract Costs; CLC 057 Performance-based Payment & Value of Cash Flow; CLC 058 Introduction to Contract Pricing; CON 170 Fundamentals of Cost and Price Analysis; FCL-CM-2500 Category Management 101. NOTE: COPIES OF THE CERTIFICATION OR TRAINING CERTIFICATES MUST BE PROVIDED WITH YOUR APPLICATION BY THE CLOSING DATE OF THE VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT. AND One year of specialized experience or equivalent work at the GS-12 level in the Federal service. Specialized experience is that which has equipped the applicant with the competencies to successfully perform the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. Specialized experience for this position includes: Using contracting principles and procedures applicable to complex pre-award and/or post-award actions sufficient to procure and/or administer contracts for a variety of specialized equipment, services, and/or construction; conducting price or financial analysis for highly complex contracts and applying cost and price analysis principles and techniques and business and industry principles and practices to analyze cost elements on an extensive range of contracts; independently developing strategic procurement plans or methods for an acquisition program; effecting procurements by negotiation, performing the full range of competitive contract negotiation tasks for highly complex acquisitions; developing new terms and conditions or other innovations necessary to satisfy the unique and complex procurement requirements and conditions; analyzing difficult contracting issues and identifying any alternative courses of action to provide the most effective support of current needs and anticipated acquisition program requirements; exemplifies ability to work in customer-focused environment, to include instilling in others effective adaptability to change based on shifts in workload and/or customer requirements. Exception: Employees in the GS-1102 positions will be considered to have met the standard for positions they occupied on January 1, 2000. This also applies to positions at the same grade in the same agency or other agencies if the specialized experience requirements are met. However, employees will have to meet the basic requirements and specialized experience requirements in order to qualify for promotion to a higher grade. If using this exception to qualify you MUST submit an SF-50 that supports the title, series, and grade occupied on 01/01/00.) Applicants must carefully review the information in the "How You Will Be Evaluated" section for important information and instructions pertaining to the multi-hurdle assessment process for this position. Only experience and education obtained by the closing date of this announcement will be considered. TIME-IN-GRADE: Current career or career-conditional employees of the Federal government, or former career or career-conditional employees, who have a break in service of less than one year, are required to meet the time-in-grade restriction of one year of Federal experience at the next lower grade, with few exceptions outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b). 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.

Education

You are required to submit your unofficial college transcripts from an appropriately accredited educational institution in order to document completion of the educational requirements for this position. The unofficial transcripts must be legible and include your name, major, school name/location, course title/number, date completed, grade, number of credits earned, and degree(s) conferred. In the case that your transcripts do not show that a degree was conferred, you may submit your unofficial transcripts AND a copy of your degree certification. If selected, official transcripts will be required prior to establishing an entrance on duty date.

Only education from institutions which are accredited or preaccredited/candidate for accreditation may be used to meet education requirements.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html

Contacts

• Address IBC AQD Acquisition Mgmt Division III 318 Elden St. Suite 2000A Herndon, VA 20170 US
• Name: Lavon Honnick
• Phone: (303) 969-5677
• Email: [email protected]