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Office of the Chief Procurement Officer is Hiring a Contract Specialist Near Denver, CO

Qualifications:

You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

Specialized Experience: For the GS-13 grade level, you must have one year (52 full weeks) of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service.

Specialized Experience for this position includes:
- Experience in performing the full range of pre-award or post award activities utilizing various types of contracts such as fixed price, various cost types, requirements, performance based and multiple award schedules; AND
- Procure and plan acquisitions for standard or specialized items, services, or contracts where specifications have become standardized and established competitive markets and price competition exist; AND
- Develop, prepare, and issue solicitations and evaluate responses; AND
- Monitor contract performance and assists in contract termination through various forms of oral and written communication.

Specialized Experience: For the GS-12 grade level, you must have one year (52 full weeks) of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service.

Specialized Experience for this position includes:
- Procure and plan acquisitions for standard or non-standard specialized items, services, or contracts where specifications requirements have become standardized and established competitive markets and price competition exist; AND
- Develop, prepare, and issue solicitations and facilitate the evaluation of the responses; AND
- Monitor and perform contract administration as well as contractor performance through various forms of oral and written communication.

Experience may have been gained in either the public, private sector or volunteer service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/day/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week on your resume.

Responsibilities:

The following are the duties of this position at the GS-13. If you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform all these duties, and will receive training to help you grow in this position.

As a Contract Specialist, you will:

• Plan, negotiate, lead, and/or administer complex procurements of goods, systems or services with specialized, state-of-the-art, critical or scarce requirements.
• Develop and/or review complex contractual pricing arrangements and incentives characterized by multiple incentives requiring sophisticated contracting techniques, sharing arrangements such as cost-plus-incentive-fees or fixed-price-incentive-fees where the agency and the contractor share cost risk, or economic price adjustment clauses for adjusting labor and material costs where price cannot be reasonably predicted at the time of negotiation.
• Present findings, recommends corrective actions, and makes policy or procedure improvements.
• Review, advise on, develop and recommend operation-wide or agency-wide procurement processes and systems, procedures and policies; or equivalent assignment.

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