2027 Summer Intern, Pricing Associate (Reston, VA or Remote)

ICF is seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Pricing Associate Intern to join our Corporate Pricing this role youll learn to develop accurate compliant and competitive pricing solutions that support ICFs proposals and contribute to meaningful client outcomes. You will work with members of the pricing department operations teams capture managers contracts finance and proposal professionals to analyze solicitation requirements support and build pricing models and help prepare cost and business proposals for federal state local and commercial clients.

Our summer internship is full-time for 10-weeks beginning in early June and ending in early August. Work may be hybrid from Reston VA or performed from any U.S. this time we are unable to provide relocation nor housing assistance.

This is a strong opportunity for a candidate who is interested in growing in pricing finance cost analysis and government contracting. Youll gain exposure to the full proposal lifecycle learn from experienced pricing professionals and build skills in financial analysis compliance collaboration and business strategy. The successful candidate will bring strong analytical skills intellectual curiosity a collaborative mindset and a commitment to accuracy and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the development of timely accurate and compliant cost and business proposals that help ICF compete effectively and deliver strong value to clients.

• Review requests for proposals and related documents to identify pricing requirements evaluation criteria submission instructions compliance considerations and key assumptions.

• Assist in building maintaining and quality-checking pricing models including labor other direct costs travel subcontractor costs indirect rates fees and escalation assumptions.

• Collect organize and analyze cost inputs from operations subcontractors finance contracts and other stakeholders to support complete clear and defensible pricing submissions.

• Document pricing assumptions methodologies and supporting rationale so proposal teams and reviewers can easily understand how pricing aligns with the proposed technical approach.

• Participate in pricing strategy discussions proposal reviews color team reviews and internal approval processes by preparing analyses and responding to reviewer feedback.

• Prepare financial analyses scenario comparisons and pricing summaries that help proposal teams evaluate competitiveness profitability and risk.

• Contribute ideas to improve pricing templates tools quality controls and processes that support consistency compliance and efficiency across proposals.

Basic Qualifications

• By start date at least 15 completed credit hours in Accounting Data Analytics Economics Finance Management Supply Chain Management or related field.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel including formulas data organization workbook review and the ability to learn and work with detailed pricing models.

• Strong analytical organizational and problem-solving skills with the ability to work accurately with financial operational and proposal data.

• Clear written and verbal communication skills including the ability to summarize assumptions analyses and recommendations for different audiences.

• Attention to detail sound judgment and the ability to follow structured processes and meet deadlines.

• Interest in cost estimation pricing financial analysis business operations government consulting or government contracting.

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