Contract Specialist

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Perform cradle-to-grave contracting actions including acquisition planning, solicitation, evaluation and cost/price analyses, negotiations, contract award, modifications/amendments, terminations, closeouts, and contractor performance reviews.

Prepare solicitations, Requests for Quotes (RFQs), Invitations for Bids (IFBs), and Requests for Proposals (RFPs) to include clauses, award factors, and specifications to comply with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR).

Monitor solicitations, issuing amendments, answering potential offerers' questions, and assuring that all suppliers are treated equally to maximize receipt of competition and minimize protests.

Formulate negotiation strategy and identifies areas subject to negotiation.

Conduct extensive negotiations before and/or after contract award; negotiate required changes as necessary.

Handle complex, controversial post-award actions and problems, justifying and explaining issues and positions, and solving particular contractual problems.

Are you using your education to qualify? You MUST provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims. Unless otherwise stated: Unofficial transcripts are acceptable at time of application. GRADUATE EDUCATION: One academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credits hours that your graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study. Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis. If you cannot obtain your graduate school's definition of one year of graduate study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as satisfying the requirement for one year of full-time graduate study. FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university.