Acquisition and Procurement Specialist

Acquisition and Procurement Specialist

Arlington, Virginia

TS/SCI clearance

This position is for our client at DISA Compartmented Enterprise Services Offices (CESO). DISA CESO offers a suite of web enabled enterprise capabilities to the DoD and Intelligence community Special Access Program (SAP) organizations that enable secure communication and collaboration across the Services, Agencies, and the Fourth Estate. This role leads/manages the acquisition and procurement of all contracts, contracted services, hardware equipment and software licensing required to develop, operate, and maintain CESO’s enterprise service capabilities. The ideal candidate will have daily interactions across a diverse team of senior ranking government officials, several different contractor teams, and vendors. They will be responsible for the preparing, leading, and following-up on all acquisition and procurement actions.

Key responsibilities:

• Aid the client and the program office team throughout the project lifecycle; create acquisition and procurement strategies and documents; and lead the acquisition and procurement efforts.
• Serve as the Acquisition Specialist for new acquisition efforts: create and document acquisition plans/strategy and maintain contractual documents over the life of the project, ensure acquisition packages include Acquisition Strategies, Acquisition Plans, Justification and Approvals, Determination and Findings, Market Research, Independent Government Cost Estimate (IGCE), Statements of Work (SOW), Performance Work Statements (PWS), Contract Data Requirement Lists (CDRLs), Quality Assurance Surveillance Plans (QASP), Security related documentation, appropriate funding document, and the documents required by government ethics and procurement integrity (confidentiality agreements and non-disclosure statements), as well as verify evaluation panel appointing letters are signed and retained, as applicable
• Provide strategies for implementing performance base contracting and acquisition streamlining, facilitate the completion of sole-source justification, review new requirements to determine how to proceed (modify existing contract/delivery order or new effort) and make recommendation to the Contracting Officer Representative (COR) or Government official.
• Provide support necessary to assist COR or Government Lead with oversight and controls to keep the suppliers performance in compliance with the required contractual standards, tracking and monitoring the performance of the suppliers and the progress made on delivery/task orders or contracts, ensuring the appropriate cost reports are submitted to the COR or Government official as required, and providing support necessary to monitor and advise of contract financial condition.
• Provide strategies for procurement of hardware, software, and license renewals, facilitate the completion of sole-source justification letters for sole-source procurement actions, solicitation / procurement support, conduct vendor management, review new requirements and make recommendations to the COR or Government official.
• Manage the program procurement process and lead procurement strategy meetings.
• Review and provide guidance on program contract schedules and milestones utilizing Microsoft Project.
• Provide effective verbal and written correspondence.
• Work effectively in a team environment.

Required Skills

• Due to federal requirements, candidates must possess an active TS/SCI clearance
• Bachelor’s degree ideally in one of the following fields: accounting, business finance, law, contracts, purchasing, economics, industrial management, marketing, quantitative methods, or organization and management
• 8 years of general experience in support of government acquisition (entire lifecycle) and procurement
• Demonstrated ability to work independently
• Demonstrated experience with contracting IT services, development, operations and cybersecurity
• Ability to execute a full range of procurement planning and contract management functions
• Minimum Requirements

Desired Skills & Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience in DoD policy governance with the FAR/DFAR and DoD 5000.02
• DAWIA Level II/III Certification in contracting
• Experience as a COR with the full acquisition lifecycle
• Experience with DISA and an understanding of how DITCO works.
• Demonstrated ability to build trusted advisor relationships
• Experience supporting sales and business development.
• Experience with financial management.
• Knowledge of SharePoint Standard Procurement System (SPS).