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- Identifying and clarifying the supplies and/or services to be acquired and developing procurement objectives and methodology which are appropriate to the value and complexity of requirements.
- Procurement planning to include preparation of acquisition and procurement plans; maintaining milestone charts and related schedules
- Preparing and reviewing justifications, determinations and findings, and source selection plans; serves as advisor to program officials to identify procurement objectives to be used in the preparation of statements of work.
- Source selection to include devising broad varieties and types of contract vehicles (solicitations, letter contracts, agreements, and contracts), conducting preproposal conferences, performing cost and price analysis, determining competitive range and evaluating contractor responsibility
- Serving as a warranted contracting officer and lead negotiator utilizing quantitative analysis to prepare the Government's negotiating position, plans negotiation strategy, conducts negotiations, documents results and utilizes cost and price analysis techniques to determine price reasonableness; serves as Source Selection Authority
- Performing contract administration to include negotiating change requests, exercise of options, issuance of stop work orders, resolving undelivered orders and unpaid invoices, addressing disputes and claims, contract termination when appropriate and responding to Congressional Inquiries and Freedom of Information Act Requests.
Contract Specialist, GS-1102-13 - Seattle, United States - Department Of Homeland Security
Description
Summary
This position is located in Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Coast Guard, Surface Forces Logistics Center, Contracting & Procurement Division, Seattle, WA.
Duties
The role of this position is to serve as a Contract Specialist responsible for contracts involving such diverse areas as ship repair, maintenance and alteration; state-of-the-art ship's systems and subsystems, ship electronic systems, naval architecture/engineering and specialized technical representative services relating to boat maintenance, and boat product line supply production items.
Being a CG civilian makes you a valuable member of the CG team
Typical work assignments include: