Senior Contracting and Procurement Policy Analyst

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

Contingent Contract Award

On-site at NGA Facilities in the Washington Metro Area - Springfield, VA, Ft. Belvoir, VA, Chantilly, VA

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) provides timely, relevant, and accurate Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) in support of National Security to the National System for Geospatial Intelligence (NSG). This role supports developing and implementing the agency’s procurement policy and ensuring effective and responsible contracting throughout NGA. Functions and responsibilities include expert assistance in:

· Developing and implementing NGA acquisition policies utilizing Department of Defense (DoD) contracting authority.

· Advising NGA stakeholders to ensure effective and responsible contracting by providing cradle to grave contracting support.

· Serving as acquisition business advisors to OCS senior leadership, contracting officers (COs)/specialists, program managers (PMs) and other stakeholders.

· Crafting efficient and effective acquisition strategies in partnership with NGA offices.

Responsibilities

• Provide advisory support for source selections, from initial planning through contract award. Provide support, review of, and assistance with, approval processes associated with NGA's acquisition boards and reviews.
• Perform in-depth strategic-level research and analysis to support recommendations for implementation of acquisition best practices and lessons learned to continually improve acquisition processes.
• Assist with inquiries/requests for information related to NGA's financial management audit by developing and coordinating responses. Actions will include but are not limited to tracking of the audit requests, providing requested information to audit, providing and implementing a Corrective Action Plan (CAP) with distinct milestones that provide step by step actions to remedy audit findings, tracking the CAP and all milestones, providing updates to senior leadership on a recurring basis for both audit and outstanding CAPs, and providing recommendations that can streamline these activities.
• Ensure adherence to acquisition policy. Support government performance of contract compliance reviews and Acquisition Management Reviews (AMRs) and assist with Procurement Management Reviews (PMRs) by preparing charts, milestone schedules and all required supporting documents.
• Continuously monitor most recent Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) changes, DoD Class Deviations, and Defense Pricing, Contracting, and Acquisition Policy (DPCAP) Policy Memorandums released through Federal Acquisition Circulars and Defense Publication Notices in order to update the NGA Acquisition Regulation Implementation (NARI), the OCS Integrated Contract Clause matrix, PRISM local clause database and any other applicable OCS guidance, policy, or template.
• Provide in-depth information via whitepapers, articles, news briefs, summaries, etc. to keep NGA stakeholders current and informed about emerging issues and trends in the acquisition field to include agile acquisition methods and procedures.
• Provide assistance with mandatory internal/external reporting on acquisition-related issues by developing and coordinating responses to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), DoD Inspector General (IG), and other auditors.
• Maintain the OCS informational web-based tool set that provides information and knowledge-sharing in support of NGA’s acquisition and contracting workforce on both the Sensitive but Unclassified (SBU) network and the NGAnet.
• Maintain and/or continue development and fielding of the current set of automated acquisition tools in SharePoint.
• Serve in an advisory capacity to the government during contract negotiations by assisting the CO/specialist as necessary, aid in the creation of required documentation and obtaining of all required approvals in compliance with NGA processes and procedures.
• Review and analyze documents, identify issues, recommend improvements and provide detailed responses to inquiries.
• Advise and mentor personnel throughout the competitive source selection activity to include preparing and issuing solicitations with discrete and discriminating evaluation criteria and accurate terms and conditions.

• Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) Professional Certification in Contracting (or experience, education and training equivalent to a DAWIA Professional certification in Contracting such as FAC-C, FAC-Professional, NCMA CFCM)
• A minimum of 10 years of experience in contracting (4 years specifically in acquisition policy)
• Active and Adjudicated Top-Secret Clearance required.
• Strong communication skills with proven capability to provide oral and written presentations.
• Expert knowledge of DoD contracting procedures from contract pre-award through contract administration
• Expert knowledge of the FAR and DFARS.
• Proven operational experience in contracting for a variety of products and services using a wide range of contracting methodologies and types.
• Proven significant experience and expertise in all aspects of the acquisition process including but not limited to sole source, competitive procurements, acquisition planning, agile acquisition policies and procedures, and contract management/administration.
• Proven ability to coach/mentor/teach and foster lessons learned and best practices with NGA stakeholders at all levels to include, but not limited to, senior, mid, junior level personnel and developmental contracting specialists.
• Proven ability to assist with strategic-level issues, agile acquisition policies and procedures, acquisition planning, formulating negotiation strategies, analyzing cost and price data, developing negotiation objectives, and negotiating various contract types.
• Proficient Microsoft Office skills (specializing in Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Proven significant experience in one or more of the following:

Major system acquisition

Simplified acquisition

Research and Development

Service Contracting

Federal Supply Schedules

Information Technology acquisitions

Other Transactions (OTAs)

Grants

Preferred Experience

• Wide ranging Contracting experience in the Intelligence Community.

Connected Logistics respects the need for confidentiality for all applicants.

Connected Logistics offers an excellent benefits package that includes health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, a great 401(k) package, and generous Paid Time Off.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. It is our policy to abide by all federal, state and local laws prohibiting employment discrimination solely on the basis of a person’s race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental condition (including, but not limited to, cancer related or HIV related), marital status, sex, gender (including sex stereotyping), age, sexual orientation, military status, or any other protected status except where a reasonable, bona fide occupational qualification exists.