CONTRACT SPECIALIST

Full Job Description

You will serve as a Contract Specialist in the NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND.

In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Planning, developing, implementing, maintaining, and administering all contract aspects of a system acquisition program; 2) Utilizing price/cost analysis techniques to evaluate contractor proposals and prepare a pre-negotiation position; 3) Applying negotiation techniques to conduct contract negotiations of hardware sole source major weapons systems contracts with high level business, industry, scientific, and/or Government officials; and 4) Demonstrating comprehensive and complex experiences in both cost realism and cost analysis, in a sole source major weapons system procurement.

Applicant must meet the following Department of Defense qualification requirements for 1102 contracting positions: http://www.secnav.navy.mil/donhr/Documents/CivilianJobs/DoD_Qualification_Standard_For_GS-1102.pdf And the title 10 requirements found here: http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section1724&num=0&edition=prelim Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social).

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. Major Duties:

• You will perform procurement planning.
• You will develop procurement objectives for the program in terms of competition and price range, and constructs the contractual vehicle including use of pricing arrangements, subcontracting policy, set-aside policies, and similar considerations.
• You will prepare procurement documentation such as determinations and findings and solicitation documents.
• You will issue necessary modifications to clarify questions concerning such topics as specification changes, language ambiguities, or clarification of contract clauses.
• You will plan the negotiation strategy, coordinates strategy with negotiation teams, and leads the negotiations, which are conducted with contractors to develop the contract, price and terms.