SUPERVISORY CONTRACT SPECIALIST (Title 5)

Summary

This position is located within the USPFO at Camp Mabry in Austin, TX. This position performs first level supervisory duties over GS-12 Contract Specialists. The purpose is to serve as a Warranted Contracting Officer and to supervise personnel engaged in procuring various supplies, services, information technology, Architect-Engineering Services, and construction. Texas is one of 9 states with NO state income tax.

Duties

• As a SUPERVISORY CONTRACT SPECIALIST (Title 5) with the Texas National Guard, your duties will include, but will not be limited to: Exercises direct supervisory and personnel management responsibilities. Provides supervisory responsibility for subordinate acquisition workforce personnel. Advises and provides counsel to employees regarding policies, procedures, and directives of management. Selects, as assigned, or recommends selection of candidates for vacancies, promotions, details, and reassignments in consideration of skills and qualifications, mission requirements, and Equal Employment Opportunity objectives. Develops, modifies, and/or interprets performance standards. Explains performance expectations to employees and provides regular feedback on strengths and weaknesses. Holds employees responsible for satisfactory completion of work assignments. Recommends awards when appropriate and reviews within-grade increases when eligible and follows up on the status when required. Listens to and resolves employee complaints at the lowest level and refers unresolved complaints to higher level management. Initiates action to correct performance or conduct problems. Plans the overall approach to meet contracting program objectives for a variety of requirements with multiple complexities. Analyzes difficult/controversial contracting issues, determines, recommends and/or implements course of action which may depart from previous approaches for long-term contract performance or short-term contracts with extremely stringent time frames. Provides business advice and assistance to technical personnel involved in the development of the performance work statement/statement of work/statement of objectives or data requirements. Reviews a diverse variety of requisition packages for adequacy and compliance with administrative, regulatory, and procedural requirements and consistency with current market practices and conditions. Oversees the procurement of a wide variety of services, supplies, construction and architect and engineering. Researches, interprets, analyzes, and applies all regulations, business and industry practices, market trends, Government Accountability Office (GAO) and Comptroller General decisions, public law, case law, and precedents. Devises special terms, provisions, clauses, and conditions applicable to the solicitation and contract as required. Ensures that the price schedule is properly structured and determines sources to be solicited. Prepares solicitation, amendment, and contract documents incorporating applicable terms, conditions, provisions and clauses. Receives and performs oversight of quotes/bids/proposals evaluations and determines the acceptability of offers based on an analysis of financial and technical information gained. Conducts price or cost analysis as needed. Recommends or determines the competitive range. Formulates negotiation strategies and identifies areas subject to negotiation (e.g., price, quantity discounts, packaging, payment discounts, transportation, and delivery). Prepares pre-negotiation positions and memoranda based on audit and/or technical recommendations. Conducts any necessary meetings to discuss offers received; performs price or cost analysis; plans and conducts negotiations on price, technical requirements, and/or terms and conditions of the contract. Obtains and reviews subcontracting plans as required. Determines the need for final proposal revisions. Executes post-award contract performance management actions on assigned contracts. Appoints Contracting Officer Representatives (CORs) within delegated authority and manages the COR program as required. Evaluates contractor performance for compliance with terms and conditions of contracts and ensures timely submission of contract deliverables and performance metrics. Makes field site visits, if necessary, detecting and correcting labor standards violations, taking appropriate action to expedite delivery or performance when required by mission changes, monitoring the contractor's use of government-furnished property inventories, and issuing change orders as necessary. Serves as business advisor to a wide range of customers. Represents the interest of the organization in a professional manner in meetings and various contacts outside the agency on a variety of issues that often are not well defined. Provides business advice, guidance, training, and assistance to team members, technical or program personnel, functional commanders, and/or contractors on contractual language, legal responsibilities, acquisition and business-related issues. Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Appointment Factor(s): This is a Title 5 Excepted Service position. Applicants who meet one of the DoD Priority Placement Program categories below are eligible to apply with this preference. (See Required Documents section) Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Remarks: Veterans' preference is applicable to this position. Texas National Guard is an Equal Opportunity employer. Direct deposit is mandatory. Trial period required (see additional information) DAWIA Certification - All personnel selected must meet certification requirements, DAWIA Level I - Professional certification, within 36 months of placement in the 1102 series. The GS-1102-13 position requires applicants to be DAWIA (Level I - Professional) certified in Contracting or have Federal Acquisition Certification in Contracting (FAC-C) (Level I - Professional). Any applicant selected will receive a tentative offer of appointment contingent upon passing a Contracting Officer Review Board (CORB) as this position is required to hold a warrant as a condition of employment. *GS-1102-13 Position - To meet HCA CORB requirements, eligible candidates for GS-1102-13 position require CORB validation prior to appointment. The HRO will forward the tentative offer/selection package, to include a copy of the vacancy announcement and the selectee's resume/certification/documents, to the HCA Functional Manager. Once the CORB is complete the HRO will be notified by the HCA POC of the results of the CORB. If the candidate passes the CORB and has a tentative offer, the HRO will determine the enter on duty date.

Education

Positive Education Requirement: Must have a Bachelor's degree. Note: The minimum education requirements listed above applies to individuals who initially accessed, promoted, reassigned, changed-to-lower grade or detailed in the NG Title 5 Excepted or Title 32 Dual Status Contracting Program, Occupational series GS-1102, as of the effective date of this qualification standard. Applicant must attach a copy of college transcript to receive consideration for this vacancy announcement. You MUST upload a copy of your transcript. Failure to do so will result in automatic disqualification for this position.