Program Manager / Senior Contract Specialist

Company Overview

Join our team and lend your skills and experience to help our clients resolve their acquisition and contracting challenges! Acquisition Experts is focused on supporting the federal government and commercial clients with professional services in the areas of procurement, logistics and program management. We need more people who are energized by lending their talents to creating positive change. Every day is a new opportunity for professional fulfillment at Acquisition Experts.    

Job Summary

We are seeking a PM/Senior Contract Specialist for a full-time, hybrid position to support the USMC based in Arlington, VA. The selected candidate will lead a team of three, Senior Contract Specialist in providing significant support to Government-led procurement teams to acquire products and services.

* Must reside within 50 miles of the National Capital Region. Occasional onsite performance will be required for the purpose of operational continuity and timely completion of assigned requirements during unforeseen and indeterminable period of disruption due to network, IT infrastructure, and hardware issues or outages. *

Responsibilities and Duties

* Pre-Award Contract Support

• Provide assistance to procuring contracting officers to analyze highly specialized procurements of significant importance to the agency.
• Support program teams in developing the acquisition support planning documents.
• Provide business analysis to determine “usual and customary” procurement practices to support of specific contract actions.
• Conduct research and provide procurement recommendations to support acquisition strategies, to include but not limited to, determine appropriate contract vehicles, procurement sources, and competition requirements.
• Develop and manage the processes to complete justification and approvals; determinations and findings; and other required pre-award contract documents.
• Conduct strategic and tactical market research.

* Solicitation / Source Selection Support

• Schedule, prepare, and assist in facilitating vendor conferences as directed by the Contracting Officer. 
• Provide administrative support to source selection teams.

* Acquisition Assistance

• Assist in training/guiding new contracting officer representatives (COR) on the acquisition process, developing requirements on an as needed basis.
• Provide consultation to support program management reviews, performance monitoring, and other contract surveillance activities.
• Support finance management professionals to ensure de-obligations.

Qualifications and Skills

• Ten (10) years of military and/or civilian federal contracting experience.
• Bachelor's Degree in business related field.
• Experience conducting pre-award.
• Experience using Procurement Desktop Defense (PD2) to draft contract actions.
• Working knowledge of the electronic Procurement System (ePS).
• Advance skills in the Microsoft Office Suite, particularly MS Word and Excel.
• Defense Acquisition Workforce Initiative Act (DAWIA) Contracting Level II - or - Federal Acquisition Certification in Contracting (FAC-C) Level II Contracting.

Benefits

• Excellent Salary (commensurate with experience)
• Paid Time-Off
• Retirement Plan
• Bonus Program
• Direct Deposit

Acquisition Experts, LLC employ people from diverse places, with varied experiences and world views. It is through these differences we come together to assist our clients in achieving their business goals. Acquisition Experts employees and consultants have opportunities to make an immediate and positive impact in supporting our clients. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.