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GSA · 10 hours ago

Contract Specialist - Federal Acquisition Service

Indiana, United States

Full-time, Contract

Remote

Entry, Mid Level

$73K/yr - $87K/yr

1+ years exp

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Security Clearance Required

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Responsibilities

Prepares solicitation documents, incorporating specialized provisions, such as cost accounting standards, requirements for technical proposals with appropriate weighting factors, cost or price escalation factors, socioeconomic programs, etc.

Pre-award: Incumbent reviews and analyzes requests for procurements, revising the statement of work, drawings or specifications in coordination with the requiring or program office.

Post-award: Conducts post-award conferences with the contractor to provide information, to clarify standard and special provisions of the contract and to maintain liaison with the contractor to interpret contractual obligations and resolve problems.

Negotiates changes and other modifications to contracts directly with contractor personnel on material and labor costs, overhead, profit or fees, resolving disagreements between auditor and contractor involving audit determined cost or pricing.

Prepares memoranda to explain rationale and methods used in arriving at final negotiated price and other agreements.

Qualification

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Contract negotiationFederal acquisition regulationsContract administrationCost accounting standardsTechnical proposal evaluationPre-award functionsPost-award functionsSpecialized experience

Required

US Citizenship or National (Residents of American Samoa and Swains Island)

Meet all eligibility requirements within 30 days of the closing date.

Current or Former Political Appointees: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees.

Serve a one-year probationary period.

Undergo and pass a background investigation based on the Security Level designation on the assigned Position Description.

Dependent on the security requirements of the position for which selected, the incumbent of this position MAY be subject to drug testing.

Have your identity and work status eligibility verified if you are not a GSA employee.

The incumbent of this position may be required to obtain and maintain a Contracting Officer warrant.

You may be required to complete a financial disclosure report to verify that no conflict, or an appearance of conflict, exists between your financial interest and this position.

Basic Education Requirement: A 4-year course of study leading to a Bachelor's degree with a major in any field; OR at least 24 semester hours in any combination of the following fields: accounting, business, finance, law, contracts, purchasing, economics, industrial management, marketing, quantitative methods, or organization and management.

GS-11 Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-9 in the Federal service.

GS-12 Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 in the Federal service.

Preferred

If you have volunteered your service through a National Service program (e.g., Peace Corps, Americorps), we encourage you to apply and include this experience on your resume.

Education Substitution (GS-11 Level ONLY): If you do not have the specialized experience described above at the GS-11 level, you may qualify if you have a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree; OR three full years of progressively higher level related graduate level education leading to such a degree.