Contract Specialist

Contracting Officer Duties

As a Contracting Officer, your typical work assignments may include the following:

• Develops, interprets, and performs procurement of goods and services using formal advertising or negotiation procedures; evaluates contract price proposals; and administers or close out of contracts.
• Provides advice and guidance to procurement customers regarding all aspects of the acquisition process, including acquisition plans, market research, and statements of work.
• Manages a buying workload of purchase requests within the Simplified Acquisition Threshold.
• Uses contracting writing program to generate Purchase Orders (PO's) or GSA Schedule Task or Delivery Orders.
• Negotiates contract modifications and the terms and cost of changes to contracts.
• Engages management and contracting officers on contracting actions, procedures, and policy matters.
• Performs the full range of contract specialist duties necessary to award, administer, and close out a variety of contract types, including fixed-price, cost, time and materials, and labor hours.
• Prepares pre-award and post-award documents, responsibility determinations, waivers, justification, and approvals for other than full and open competition, determinations, and findings.
• Generates a variety of procurement actions via GSA federal supply schedules, UNICOR, GWAC, agency BPA's and commercial sources in the open market while also applying Simplified Acquisition Procedures and Socioeconomic Programs where appropriate.