Acquisition Specialist - Mid-Level

Job Description

Job Description

Acquisition Specialist – Mid-Level

Position Summary

The Acquisition Specialist – Mid-Level will independently support complex federal acquisition actions throughout the pre-award, award, administration, invoicing, and closeout phases. The individual will provide acquisition recommendations, develop procurement documentation, conduct price and cost analyses, and maintain contract and procurement-system data.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop comprehensive acquisition packages, acquisition plans, requirements documents, independent Government estimates, market research reports, and solicitation documentation.
• Recommend acquisition strategies, contract types, sourcing approaches, evaluation methods, solicitation provisions, and risk-mitigation measures.
• Prepare justifications, determinations and findings, interagency agreements, memoranda of understanding, quality-surveillance documentation, and other acquisition records.
• Support source-selection planning, proposal evaluations, evaluation-panel coordination, and preparation of source-selection records.
• Conduct detailed price and cost analyses, including review of direct and indirect costs, cost reasonableness, allowability, allocability, price trends, and economic factors.
• Prepare or support negotiation objectives, price-negotiation memoranda, and award recommendations.
• Develop contract and task-order modifications addressing options, funding changes, de-obligations, revised requirements, performance periods, and other contractual changes.
• Monitor contractor performance, deliverables, invoices, progress reports, and compliance with contract terms and federal requirements.
• Maintain acquisition data and official records in PRISM, FPDS-NG, FAPIIS, SAM.gov, GSA eLibrary, electronic contract files, and applicable DOI systems.
• When assigned, maintain aviation acquisition and financial master data in FBMS or related systems, resolve data or payment errors, process adjustments, and communicate with vendors and Bureau customers.
• Identify acquisition risks, compliance concerns, and process inefficiencies and recommend corrective actions.
• Provide technical guidance and quality review for less-experienced acquisition personnel.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree.
• At least six years of relevant acquisition, procurement, contract administration, or federal business operations experience.
• Demonstrated experience supporting multiple stages of the federal acquisition lifecycle.
• Knowledge of federal acquisition regulations, procurement documentation, contract administration, and price or cost analysis.
• Experience using federal acquisition or business systems.
• Excellent analytical, written communication, customer-service, and workload-management skills.
• Ability to obtain the required DOI suitability determination and credential.