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Summary:
The Contract Specialist role entails managing contracting processes for specialized projects like museum construction and renovations. Responsibilities include drafting contracts, coordinating contractors, conducting meetings, advising project officials, administering contracts, resolving disputes, ensuring compliance, expediting actions, and preparing procurement objectives and documents.
Essential Job Functions:
- Drafts, solicits, negotiates and awards contracts for highly specialized projects in one or more of the following areas: new museum research facility construction; architect/engineering services for studies, site analysis, design and engineering; renovations of historic buildings; major restoration and renovation of historic buildings.
- Performs contract planning, soliciting, negotiation, awarding, administration, and close-out.
- Coordinating a wide variety of contractors, each having unique functions relating to assigned projects.
- Chair pre-procurement meetings with officials of the requisitioning office and support offices such as the Office of Planning, Design, and Construction, Office of Facilities Maintenance and Reliability, Office of Protection Services, Office of Safety, Health and Environmental Management and Office of Chief Information
- Officer to review specifications, drawings, and work scopes.
- Establishes project schedules, determines the appropriate method of procurement and types of contracts, and develops negotiation tactics and goals.
- Oversees the activities of various panels, technical evaluation boards and other committees.
- Serves as advisor to project officials and advises them of procurement objectives to be used.
- Assists in preparation of statements of work, evaluation criteria and technical agreements.
- Acts as the overall contract administrator for assigned projects. Establishes and maintains progress and performance records.
- Provides contracting advice and guidance during contract administration concerning contract change orders, resolving contract claims and disputes and terminations for default and convenience.
- Accepts or terminates contracts. Coordinates contractual actions to ensure that SI receives the work agreed upon.
- Determines reasons for contractor experienced difficulties in meeting established delivery schedules and expedites pertinent actions to alleviate any potential bottlenecks.
- Discusses contractors’ probable cancellations and changes in requirements to determine the cost and effect of such cancellations or changes.
- Monitors production and reviews schedules, drawings, specifications, material requirements and pertinent contractual clauses to determine administrative functions to be performed Assures contractor compliance with Davis-Bacon Act, Service Contract Act, Walsh-Healy Act, and non-discriminatory practices.
- Coordinates requests with other interested personnel for contractor changes relative to deviations from specifications, changes in inspection and actions which include approval of deviations from specifications, changes in inspections and acceptance points and deletion of items.
- Expedites inspection actions which include approval of deviations, cost increases and cost decreases to assure contractor compliance with delivery schedules and maintenance of production schedules.
- Works with the project team to identify items and services for contracting components, equipment, and services to be acquired by contract.
- Develops procurement objectives for the program in terms of competition and price range and constructs the contractual vehicle including use of pricing arrangements, subcontracting policy, set aside policies and similar considerations. Prepares and maintains current acquisition plans, appropriate milestone charts and related schedules and procurement files.
- Prepares necessary contract documents assuring the inclusion of all provisions required by law, regulation, and policy, and writes original special clauses such as proposal evaluation criteria, testing requirements, special vested rights, rights-in-data, price adjustments and costs reimbursable.
Necessary Skills and Knowledge:
- Comprehensive knowledge of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), contracting laws, regulations, General Accountability Office (GAO) principles and practices - both federal and commercial - necessary to provide authoritative advice and direction with respect to contracting for complex programs.
- Drafts, solicits, negotiates and awards contracts for highly specialized projects in one or more of the following areas: new museum research facility construction; architect/engineering services for studies, site analysis, design and engineering; renovations of historic buildings; major restoration and renovation of historic buildings.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree OR any equivalent combination of experience, training, and/or education.
- Four (4) years of experience in similar role in one or more of the following areas: new museum research facility construction; architect/engineering services for studies, site analysis, design and engineering; renovations of historic buildings; major restoration and renovation of historic buildings.
- Ability to successfully pass a background check.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $80,000.00 - $100,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Disability insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply
Education:
Experience:
- Federal Contracting: 4 years (Required)
- facility construction, historic buildings: 4 years (Required)
Ability to Relocate:
- Washington, DC: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person