Senior Contract Specialist

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🏛️ District of Columbia, Washington – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $80k - $95k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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U.S. Federal Solutions, Inc.

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2010

🏛️ Government

💼 Consulting

Government • Consulting

U. S. Federal Solutions, Inc. is a federal government management consulting firm that offers a range of services designed to improve business processes and increase operational effectiveness and efficiency for federal, state, local, and commercial clients. The company's expertise includes acquisition management, data analytics, technical and administrative management, financial management, and information technology. U. S. Federal Solutions aims to deliver high-value management consulting services, while fostering strategic partnerships and promoting sustainable community development. Their team is composed of highly qualified professionals dedicated to thought leadership and innovative solutions.

📋 Description

• Provide comprehensive pre-award and post-award acquisition support for complex federal procurements. • Support acquisitions above the Simplified Acquisition Threshold and complex procurement actions. • Develop, review, and refine acquisition plans, solicitation packages, procurement documentation, source selection materials, evaluation criteria, contract modifications, and other acquisition products. • Research, interpret, and apply the FAR, VAAR, agency policies, federal and state laws, and other acquisition guidance. • Prepare compliant procurement packages for Contracting Officer review. • Advise Contracting Officers, Contract Specialists, program managers, technical experts, and requiring activities. • Analyze difficult contracting issues and recommend courses of action. • Collaborate with customers and stakeholders to define, standardize, and align enterprise-wide requirements. • Develop and improve source selection evaluation criteria and acquisition evaluation strategies. • Conduct technical, cost, pricing, historical procurement, and market research and analysis. • Assist with IGCEs, cost-benefit analyses, price reasonableness determinations, and financial analyses. • Conduct gap analyses and assess cost elements for healthcare services, supplies, equipment, and mission requirements. • Support proposal evaluations, negotiations, contract award documentation, and contract administration. • Monitor contract performance and help resolve performance, payment, claims, changes, deliverables, schedule, and compliance issues. • Prepare and review contract modifications, change orders, supplemental agreements, delivery orders, and supporting documentation. • Provide leadership, technical direction, coaching, and guidance to junior and mid-level personnel. • Maintain complete, accurate, organized, and audit-ready contract files and acquisition documentation.

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of five years of recent relevant experience within the last seven years providing comprehensive and complex federal acquisition support. • Experience supporting both pre-award and post-award federal acquisition activities. • Experience supporting acquisitions greater than the Simplified Acquisition Threshold. • Extensive working knowledge of the FAR, VAAR, and other applicable federal acquisition policies and regulations. • Strong understanding of the complete federal acquisition lifecycle. • Experience developing and reviewing acquisition plans, solicitations, source selection documentation, procurement packages, contract modifications, and contract administration documentation. • Ability to independently research and interpret acquisition regulations, policies, directives, and guidance. • Experience analyzing technical requirements, cost and pricing information, acquisition risks, and contracting alternatives. • Ability to provide acquisition advice and recommendations to government customers, technical personnel, and senior stakeholders. • Strong leadership skills and ability to provide technical guidance to junior acquisition professionals. • Excellent written communication, research, analytical, time-management, and organizational skills. • Ability to manage multiple acquisition actions and deadlines in a fast-paced federal contracting environment. • Specialized experience may include construction and Architect-Engineering, complex services and healthcare contracting, or leasing and specialized contracts. • Bachelor's degree in any field. • At least 24 semester hours in accounting, business, finance, law, contracts, purchasing, economics, industrial management, marketing, quantitative methods, organization and management, or a combination of these disciplines. • Applicable federal contracting experience may be considered in lieu of education in accordance with contractual requirements.

🏖️ Benefits

• Employer-provided paid Medical / Dental / Vision insurance. • Employer matching 401K plan. • PTO • 11 Federal Holidays • Voluntary Short / Long Term Disability, Term Life, and AD&D Insurance.