Contract Specialist

**Duties**:

- Perform pre-award procurement functions, which are not well defined or precedented.
- Ensure appropriate funding and required waivers, certifications, justifications, approvals and compliances have been obtained for purchase requests.
- Select contract types, method of solicitation, options, milestones, and sources to be solicited.
- Develop and issue solicitations with appropriate clauses and with well-defined statements of work and award factors.
- Evaluate responses to solicitations, including price reasonableness, adequacy of competition, compliance with solicitation, and responsibility of successful offerors.
- Negotiate price, terms, and conditions, and prepares price negotiation memoranda.
- Prepare recommendations for awards and prepares award documentation, including delineation of responsibilities for contractors.
- Serve as point of contact for assigned procurements.
- Prepare responses to Agency/GAO protests and congressional inquiries.
- Administer contracts, which are neither well defined or precedented.
- Monitor contractors' performance for compliance with terms and conditions of contracts.
- Issue delivery orders as provided in contracts.
- Determine extent to which sub-contracting plans comply with regulatory guidelines.
- Monitor sub-contracting for compliance with plans.
- Prepare consent to sub-contract.
- Request and evaluates proposals; perform cost and price analyses; and negotiate proposals, prepare modifications, and document actions.

**Requirements**:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- This is an Army Acquisition, Logistics and Technology Workforce position. You are required to meet Acquisition Back to Basics certification requirements within 36 months of entrance on duty.
- This position requires confidential financial disclosure annually.

**Qualifications**:
**Who May Apply: US Citizens**
- **Department of Defense Individual Occupational Requirements: Individual Occupational Requirement**:Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in any field, from an accredited educational institution ) **OR**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:

- **Qualified applicants at the GS-12 level must describe in their resume a year or more of specialized contracting experience equivalent to the GS-11 level in federal service with pre and post award contracting duties for supply and service; or construction; or Architectural/Engineering work.**

**Education**:
**Additional information**:

- Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
- You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
- **A Recruitment Incentive may be considered.**:

- **A relocation incentive may be considered.**:

- **Enhanced Leave Accrual may be considered.**:

- **Advanced Rate of pay may be considered.**:

- One year trial/probationary period may be required.
- Direct Deposit of Pay is required.
- This position requires you to submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE450) upon entry, and annually thereafter.
- If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the Reemployed Annuitant information sheet.
- This is a Contracting and Acquisitions Career Field position
- Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement.
- Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement.
- **Remote Positions**: Payment of Permanent Change of Station (PCS) costs is not authorized, based on a determination that a PCS move is not in the Government interest.
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**How You Will Be Evaluated**:
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

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