Senior Consultant Senior Contracts Specialist
Senior Consultant Senior Contracts Specialist
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Job Description
Overview
Nakupuna Solutions is looking for a Senior Contract Specialist who will provide professional acquisition support services for the Department of State. This individual shall be highly qualified and have significant experience working with contracts below the Simple Acquisition Threshold as well as complex and high dollar projects. They must possess a deep and thorough knowledge/understanding of the FAR and the complete acquisition life cycle.
Responsibilities
The following reflects managements definition of essential functions for this job but does not restrict the tasks that may be assigned. Management may assign additional duties and responsibilities to this job at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons.
- PreAward Acquisition Support: Provide advice recommendations and document preparation support to multiple disciplined offices in all areas of the acquisition preaward phase. Acquisition preaward support/reviews and advisement on the process and formulation of acquisition documents includes SOWs & SOOs Acquisition Strategy Support Cost Estimates Market Research & Market Surveys Quality Assurance Plans RFPs/RFQs Source Selection and other miscellaneous preaward documentation. Ability to formally document the reviews concisely for the contract files and the Contracting Officer is required.
- Award/Selection Support: Provide support/advisement and reviews to the Contracting Officers and various technical offices in all types of source selections including formal informal and vendor screening processes. Sources selection/award support includes Contract Award Documents and Contract Award Acquisition Support.
- PostAward Acquisition Support: Provide advice recommendations and document support to multiple disciplined offices in all areas of the acquisition postaward phase. Acquisition postaward support includes Contract Administration Contract Modification Support Delivery/Task Order Support Invoicing and Closeouts.
- Demonstrated skill in obtaining and analyzing product and price data for contract negotiations and conducting comparative analysis of vendor terms and/or price quotations with historical data to develop recommendations on vendor selection terms or prices.
- Must be able to effectively communicate with a high volume and variety of people including Leadership and Management level Government personnel on a daily basis.
- Specialized experience includes negotiating and awarding contracts contract modifications and/or subcontracts developing preparing and presenting terms and conditions in bids or proposals related to the awards of contracts evaluating methods and efficiencies of allocating costs through various types of overhead and general administrative expense experience leading and/or providing technical advice and assistance to a group of professional employees responsible for the oversight and implementation of contract administration workload to include contract closeout pricing negotiations and/or contract modifications.
- Experience in supplies and service contracts is required; experience in formal source selections and research and development is desired.
- Experience with FAR Parts 12 and 13 Simplified Acquisition procedures and Commercial Acquisitions is highly desired to include Commercial Services using IDIQ contracts.
- Experienced with issuing documenting and awarding Competitive efforts is required.
- Experience with the application of FAR Part 6 (Other than full and open competition) and writing J&As is desired.
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Education and Experience:
- Bachelors Degree and ten years of experience.
- Masters Degree preferred.
- DAWIA level II or III CFCM and/or FACC certifications preferred
- Former 1102 series experience as a government employee will be highly rated
- Former Contracting Officer experience is highly preferred.
Clearance Requirements:This position requires an active Secret security clearance. Must be a U.S. Citizen.
Physical Requirements: The ideal candidate must at a minimum be able to meet the following physical requirements of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation:
- Ability to perform repetitive motions with the hands wrists and fingers.
- Ability to engage in and follow audible communications in emergency situations.
- Ability to sit for prolonged periods at a desk and working on a computer.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
