Job opening: Senior Attorney (Procurement Law)
Salary: $170 757 - 191 900 per year
Published at: Feb 01 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
Bid protest attorneys carry out the Comptroller General's statutory responsibility to resolve challenges to awards or solicitations for award of federal contracts. These attorneys will handle all aspects of a bid protest from its filing to drafting clearly written, legally sound decisions in a timely manner, and ensuring that they are reviewed, edited, and issued to the parties within GAO's 100-day statutory deadline.
Duties
As a Senior Attorney (Procurement Law), PA-0905-3 your typical work assignments may include the following:
- Receiving and managing a docket of bid protest cases and being responsible for all aspects of bid protest case development. This includes responding to agency dismissal requests, document disputes, protective order, and admission issues.
- Conducting status conferences, bid protest hearings, and alternative dispute resolution, as necessary, for the effective resolution of the bid protest.
- Drafting clearly written, legally sound bid protest decisions in a timely manner, ensuring that they are reviewed, edited, and issued to the parties within the 100-day statutory deadline applicable to all bid protests filed with GAO.
- Developing and analyzing essential facts, researching and applying governing authorities, and presenting legally sound conclusions and recommendations.
Qualifications
You must meet the minimum qualification requirements by the closing date of this job opportunity announcement
Must have a J.D. degree from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association.
Must be an active member in good standing of a bar of a state, a territory of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
Must have a minimum of four years (208 weeks) of legal experience working with and applying the laws, policies, and regulations related to the duties of the position.
Education
See Qualifications section.
FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed outside of the United States must be deemed equivalent to that gained in conventional/accredited U.S. education programs to be acceptable for Federal employment. Most foreign education is not accredited by an accrediting body that is recognized by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education. If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show 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://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html
Contacts
- Address Government Accountability Office
Human Capital Office
441 G Street NW
Washington, DC 20548
US
- Name: GAO Legal Careers
- Email: [email protected]
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