Senior Contract Specialist

Enterprise Contract Services Support to provide cradle to grave contracting and procurement related support services for the DIA enterprise.

• Analyzeproject requirement from inception to closeout and develop solutions to agencys needs.

• Responsible for business improvement services in life cycle administration and management of contracts contract negations; proposal guidance preparation and management assistance.

• Duties include but are not limited to market analysis purchase justifications material lifecycle plans bills of material cost estimates as well as product and service oriented draft statements of work.

• Provides services to coordinate and support development of customer needs statements Requests for Information (RFIs) and Requests for Quotes (RFQs).

• Coordinates reviews and presents vendor responses to RFIs RFQs and service requests and acquisition planning.

• Prepares Request for Proposals (RFP)/Invitation for Bids (IFB) preparation guidance market research/ analysis and selection and administration of terms and conditions.

• Prepare contact awards and modifications for Contracting Officer signature.

• Performs initial cost and price analysis on proposals received.

• Supports the Contracting Officer (CO) during the source selection process.

• Drafts contract negotiation memoranda and contract modifications for CO.

• Support the CO in documenting evaluation of performance contract termination and contract closeout.

• Create/Maintain Contract file folders prepare solicitation documentation and review proposals for compliance and contract modifications.

• Individuals shall also possess extensive working knowledge of the FAR and DFAR and agency supplements as required.

• Additional duties as assigned.

• TS/SCI with CI Polygraph.

• Require 9-12 years of experience performing relevant actions specific to labor category with relevant experience within the last 2 years. Work is highly independent.

• Bachelors Degree in an area related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

• Meets all qualifications and skills of a Mid-Level to include:

  • Demonstrates in-depth knowledge and understanding of the labor category activities required to meet mission requirements.

  • Demonstrates mastery of qualitative and quantitative acquisition and program management analytic methodologies and pursues developments in academia or other fields that contribute to enterprise/corporate level process improvement.

  • Demonstrates ability to design comprehensive new or unique process improvement enablers to further streamline Agency PPB&E facilitation.

  • Demonstrates in-depth knowledge of acquisition lifecycle operations including financial execution concepts and provides knowledge management across organizational and intra-IC boundaries to clearly articulate key findings.

  • Demonstrates ability to work independently and with minimal oversight.

  • Demonstrates ability to review analytic program management data for cogent arguments provide adequate support for conclusions and routinely tests accuracy of analytic data

The salary range for this position is $148000-$159000.