Contract Specialist - Sneads Ferry, United States - Acquisition Experts LLC

Description

Job Description

Job Description

Company Overview

Join our team and lend your skills and experience to help our clients resolve their acquisition and contracting challenges Acquisition Experts is focused on supporting the federal government and commercial clients with professional services in the areas of procurement, logistics and program management.

We need more people who are energized by lending their talents to creating positive change. Every day is a new opportunity for professional fulfillment at Acquisition Experts.
Job Summary
We are seeking a

Contract Specialist

for a full-time position supporting a federal customer at Camp Lejeune, NC. The selected candidate will provide significant support to Government-led procurement teams to acquire products and services.
Responsibilities and Duties

• Pre-Award Contract Support

Provide assistance to procuring contracting officers to analyze procurement actions and recommend a course of action.
Support program teams in developing the acquisition support planning documents
Provide business analysis to determine "usual and customary" procurement practices to support of specific contract actions.

Conduct research and provide procurement recommendations to support acquisition strategies, to include but not limited to, determine appropriate contract vehicles, procurement sources, and competition requirements.

Develop and manage the processes to complete justification and approvals; determinations and findings; and other required pre-award contract documents.
Conduct strategic and tactical market research.

• Solicitation / Source Selection Support

Make recommendation of procurement action to the Contracting Officer.
Schedule, prepare, and assist in facilitating vendor conferences as directed by the Contracting Officer.
Provide administrative support to source selection teams.

• Acquisition Assistance

Assist in training/guiding new contracting officer representatives (COR) on the acquisition process, developing requirements on an as needed basis.
Provide consultation to support program management reviews, performance monitoring, and other contract surveillance activities.
Provide consultation to contracting officer representatives (COR) in their efforts to perform spend management and track deliverables.
Support finance management professionals to conduct funds de-obligations from awarded contracts.
Assist contracts staff on the Procurement Desktop-Defense (PD2) contract writing system.
Support contract closeout activities.
Qualifications and Skills
Five (5) years of military and/or civilian federal contracting experience.
Experience conducting pre-award and post-award actions.
Experience using Procurement Desktop Defense (PD2) to conduct contract actions.
Advance skills in the Microsoft Office Suite, particularly MS Word and Excel.
Minimum

Education/Training/Certifications


Required:
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in federal contracting.
Advance skills in the Microsoft Office Suite, particularly MS Word and Excel.

Desired Qualifications:

Defense Acquisition Workforce Initiative Act (DAWIA) Contracting Level II - or - Federal Acquisition Certification in Contracting (FAC-C) Level II Contracting.

Benefits
Excellent Salary

(commensurate with experience)
Paid Time-Off
Retirement Plan
Bonus Program
Direct Deposit
Acquisition Experts, LLC employ people from diverse places, with varied experiences and world views. It is through these differences we come together to assist our clients in achieving their business goals. Acquisition Experts employees and consultants have opportunities to make an immediate and positive impact in supporting our clients.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.

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