Contract Specialist

The Building People LLC has a position open for a full-time Contract Specialist . T The Contract Specialist serves customer needs through professional placement of Government Contracts including a full range of Pre-award and Post-award functions e.g. price/cost analysis administration and termination of contracts in the Public Building Services organization.

Responsibilities/Duties:

• The Contract Specialist will procure a wide range of design and construction services supplies and other services utilizing a variety or acquisition methods and contracting vehicles. Procurement Actions involve contracts above the Simplified Acquisition Threshold (SAT).
• The Contract Specialist provides direction/guidance to purchase goods or services which includes Market Research and analysis for best pricing adhering to budgetary guidelines and reporting research and pricing to management to assist in acquisitions.
• All work is governed by the FAR and supplemented by additional regulations legal precedents and agency policy and procedures.

Required Skills

• Knowledge of cost and price analysis and cost accounting standards sufficient to perform the full range of strategic analytical technical procurement assignments. Knowledge/skills in both written and oral communications to keep GSA Management customers and contractors apprised of project status and procurement issues of mutual concern.
• Knowledge of business practices sufficient to identify sources recent developments and trends economic factors affecting procurements and anticipated requirements of Federal agencies; to analyze cost and pricing data and contract proposals; and to evaluate the offers for responsibility.
• Knowledge of the full range of Federal Socioeconomic and labor policies and regulations including those related to small business small disadvantaged business women-owned businesses 8(a) the Service Contract Act Javits Wagner Oday Act and the Davis Bacon Act.
• Knowledge of current software and media applications to facilitate the efficient exchange of information via email spreadsheets Webex Federal Procurement Data System Next Generation (FPDS-NG) Electronic Contract File Viewer (ECF) Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) E-buy Electronic Subcontracting Reporting System (eSRS) Procurement Processing System (EASi) and other software programs.

Required Education/Experience:

• 4-year course of study leading to a bachelors 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; OR Four (4) years of experience in Contracting or similar position.
• 40 Hours of Professional Acquisition Related Training.

Required Experience:

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