"Senior Procurement Specialist"

The work involves planning, directing, and coordinating contractual actions involved in a sophisticated and technologically advanced systems acquisition program. Complexities in assigned systems acquisition programs include:

• Requirements involving a number of separate elements;
• Long-term contractual efforts (e.g., up to five years);
• No previous cost history data; Involvement of several different contractors and numerous subcontractors;
• Coordinating the efforts of various subject-matter specialists engaged in the acquisition program (e.g., engineers, production specialists, legal advisors, auditors, logistics management specialists, and financial managers);
• Requirement for concurrent, overlapping, or sequential contractual actions in order to maintain the acquisition schedule and to take advantage of technological advancements;
• Interrelated contracts with several different contractors where in a change in one contract precipitates changes in the others.
• Decisions at each phase of the acquisition process require the analysis of alternatives, consideration of technological advances, evaluation of program and technical needs, evaluation of time constraints, and determination of cost. The employee is responsible for devising sophisticated pricing arrangements and for managing all contractual aspects of the system’s acquisition process.
• Plans, develops, and establishes the contractual strategy for the overall acquisition program. Develops a pre-negotiation position, determines the types of contracts and negotiation authority to be used, and prepares justification.
• Functions as team leader during contract negotiations. Coordinates with the departments, legal counsel, audit, and subordinate activities. Personally, negotiates the majority of contracts. Assigns portions of the contract to subordinate activity contract specialists.
• Directs the full range of contract administration actions required for the acquisition program, including the issuance of contract modifications, negotiation of changes, exercise of options, investigation and resolution of contractor delays, contractor performance appraisal, subcontractor surveillance, disposition of claims, and similar matters.
• Serves as principal contracting advisor to the program management office and represents the agency or department as the program's contractual authority at conferences and meetings.
• Preforming other duties as assigned