Contract Specialist

• Advise program officials on procurement of supplies and services, source selection procedures, price proposal evaluation, contract administration, termination, and closeout
• Perform contract administration for multiple IA offices and customers
• Monitor contractor performance, verify deliveries, review performance issues, and support resolution of contract matters
• Research and prepare contract modifications and analyze alternatives, contractor capabilities, and performance considerations
• Perform cost/price analysis of contractor proposals and supporting data
• Support development of cost-related sections of solicitation documents
• Support budget development for planned procurements
• Review solicitations for completeness, accuracy, pricing structure, and alignment between price and technical requirements
• Analyze contractor price and cost proposals for new procurements, modifications, changes, and follow-on requirements
• Support period-of-performance extensions, contract closeouts, cancellations, and terminations
• Safeguard IA interests through compliance with applicable laws, executive orders, regulations, acquisition requirements, and established procedures
• Assist customers in developing statements of work, statements of need/objectives, acquisition strategies, evaluation plans, and pricing methodologies
• Serve as a point of contact and business advisor to program officials on acquisition and administrative matters
• Coordinate administration of long-term and technically complex service contracts across multiple contract types
• Monitor contractor performance, progress payments, schedules, deliveries, change-order proposals, performance issues, and proposed solutions
• Interpret contract provisions for contractors and IA officials and provide acquisition guidance
• Negotiate medium-complexity contract modifications, including change orders and ratifications of unauthorized commitments
• Develop negotiation positions through analysis of contractor and technical information
• Perform in-depth cost/price analyses for complex acquisitions
• Evaluate contractor management, operational, and financial capabilities
• Coordinate extensions, delivery and acceptance disputes, payments, closeouts, cancellations, and terminations
• Support preparation of IA responses to protests
• Support complex, sensitive, and high-priority procurement programs and provide acquisition guidance to team members
• Collaborate with acquisition team members and provide recommendations on work, procurement, and administrative issues
• Perform pre-award acquisition functions, including acquisition planning, determinations and findings, solicitation documents, and cost/price proposal analysis
• Perform post-award acquisition functions, including contract modifications, stop-work orders, cure notices, show-cause letters, payments, closeout, and termination actions

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