Acquisition and Procurement Specialist

Job Title: Acquisition and Procurement Specialist

Job Location: Arlington, VA

Clearance: TS/SCI



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.



What You Will Do:



- 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



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).



Arena Technical Resources, LLC, (ATR) is an Equal Opportunity Employer

(EOE) who will provide equal employment opportunity to employees and

applicants for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion,

color, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, veteran status, ancestry,

sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status,

family structure, genetic information, or mental or physical disability.