Job Listing: Contract Specialist GS-1102-9/11/12 (DEU)

Duty Locations

 many vacancies - Boulder, CO many vacancies - Kansas City Metro Area, MO many vacancies - Montgomery County, MD, MD many vacancies - Seattle, WA These positions are located in the Acquisition and Grants Office,
Acquistion Division, Staff Offices of the Under Secretary of the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Picture yourself working for the Acquisition Division which acquires
approximately $1 billion annually of goods and services to support
activities of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration and
selected Bureaus of the Department of Commerce (DOC) of the greater
Washington, D.C. area. Our primary customers are the National Marine
Fisheries Service, the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and
Information Service, the National Weather Service, the National
Institutes of Health, the National Ocean Service, Oceanic and
Atmospheric Research, and the Office of Global Programs in NOAA.
Additionally, in the Department of Commerce we support the
International Trade Administration, Bureau of Export Administration,
Minority Business Development Agency, Economic Development
Administration, Economics and Statistics Administration,
the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and National Telecommunications and
Information Administration.

Major Duties

As a Contract Specialist, you will be responsible for planning,
negotiating, leading and/or administering complex procurements of
goods, systems or services with specialized, state-of-the-art,
critical or scarce requirements and characterized by a lack of any
previous cost data, use of a wide variety of cost and fixed-price
contracts, multi-year contracts and extensive use of subcontractors,
frequent changes in terms, conditions or funding arrangements, and
similar difficulties. Develops and/or reviews 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 can not be reasonably predicted at the
time of negotiation. Audits or reviews major acquisitions of
similar complexity, presents findings, recommends corrective actions
and policy or procedure improvements. Reviews, advises on, develops
and recommends operating unit-wide or agency-wide procurement
processes and systems, procedures and policies or equivalent
assignments.

How to Apply

Application under this announcement requires the applicant to
complete a USAJOBS application by accessing MY USAJOBS at
https://www.usajobs.opm.gov. The submission of any application other
than the USAJOBS application will result in your application not
being considered under this vacancy announcement. We do not accept
mailed, faxed or e-mailed applications/resumes.
PLEASE ENSURE THAT YOU HAVE THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IN YOUR RESUME:
FULL NAME
MAILING ADDRESS
DAY AND EVENING TELEPHONE NUMBERS (With area code)
You must answer the questions under the grade level for which
you are applying, as well as the questions under "ALL Grades".
Additionally, you must answer the questions that apply to the
grade(s) and location(s) for which you wish to be considered.
APPLICANTS ARE RESPONSIBLE TO ENSURE THAT THE ANSWERS GIVEN IN
RESPONSE TO THE JOB SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ARE CLEARLY SUBSTANTIATED
WITHIN THE RESUME. APPLICANTS ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO REVIEW THE
JOB SPECIFIC QUESTIONS PRIOR TO COMPLETING THEIR RESUME.
If you have problems completing your on-line application,
contact the Quickhire Help Desk at 1-866-656-6831 or by e-mail at
mgshelp@monster.com. The help desk is available Monday-Friday 7:00
a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time. You may call and leave a voice mail
message at all other times. If you do not have access to a computer
or the Internet to complete the on-line application, please contact
the Human Resource Specialist listed on the vacancy.


Required Documents:
If you are qualifying based on education you must provide proof of
your college transcripts (unofficial copies accepted).
If you are applying under the VEOA Program you must provide proof of
eligibility.
If you are applying as a noncompetitive appointment eligible (e.g.,
VRA, 30% of more disabled veteran, disabled person, etc.), then you
must provide the appropriate documentation and/or proof which shows
your eligibility to apply.
Current Federal employees must fax a copy of a SF-50 "Notification of
Personnel Action".
Please fax the appropriate cover sheet and a legible copy of the
corresponding document. Each document must be dialed and faxed in
separately as each sheet includes an identification number, which
ensures your document is processed correctly.


Contact Information:
Bridget Clark

Phone: 301-713-6330

Fax: 000-000-0000

TDD: 301-713-0982

Email: Bridget.A.Clark@noaa.gov


Or write:
U.S. Department of Commerce
1305 East-West Highway
WFMO
Silver Spring, MD 20910

Fax: 000-000-0000


What To Expect Next:
You can verify that your application was received for this vacancy
announcement by clicking on 'View My Application Status" under the
Automated Commerce Employment System (ACES) at www.jobs.doc.gov
You can also verify whether your faxes were received by clicking
on "Generate Fax Cover Sheet" at the ACES login screen. Refer to the
last column titled 'Review Status'.
You can check the status of your application. If you were rated
eligible, it will indicate whether or not your application met the
requirements for the position being filled, and whether or not your
application was referred to the hiring manager for consideration.
PLEASE NOTE: applications will be referred to the hiring
manager "only" when a request to fill a vacancy has been submitted
to the Workforce Management Office. Therefore, should you review
the status of your application, and it does not indicate that your
application has been referred, this does not mean that you did not
qualify for the position. This is an indicator that there is no
vacancy at this time.