Senior Contracting and Procurement Policy Analyst

USFS is an ISO 9001 management consulting firm with headquarters in the National Capital Region and offices and staff in 12 US states.  USFS staff average 10+ years of professional experience, over 80 percent of our staff have bachelor’s degrees, and over half have advanced degrees in business and technology. USFS was founded in 2010 and provides financial management, acquisition management, program management, and data analytic support services to federal and state governments. US Federal Solutions, a leading management consulting firm, is seeking Senior Contracting and Procurement Policy Analysts to support the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.

Position Overview:
This work supports developing and implementing the agency’s procurement policy and ensuring effective and responsible contracting throughout NGA. Specifically, OCS seeks personnel who have the experience, education and training appropriate to the specific tasks identified below.

Functions and responsibilities include expert assistance in:

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

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

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

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

5.     - Training/mentoring/coaching in Contracting and Acquisition policy.

Roles and 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.
• Provide collaboration and direct support to program offices and key components for life cycle acquisition and contractual issues.
• 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) (i.e. prepare charts, milestone schedules and all required supporting documents).
• Using critical thinking skills, evaluate the information documented in the AMRs and PMRs to identify trends and key deficiencies to provide the workforce effective ways to improve their capabilities and skill set.
• Provide individual file summaries for each file reviewed and recommendations for compliance corrections and process improvements.
• Assist NGA with maintaining and updating NGA’s acquisition policy documents, including but not limited to, changes based on updates to the DoD 5000 instruction, and the DoD Source Selection Guide.
• 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. This includes well researched benchmarking information on the IC and DoD on industry best practices.
• Provide assistance for 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.
• Assist in reviewing and coordinating NGA legislative packages and congressional requests for information on acquisition policy issues.
• Provide timely and accurate date/information for all assigned taskers.
• 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. This network site, which provides users with access to the latest information on agency-wide acquisition policies, guidance and instructions, must be continually updated and maintained due to DoD and NGA policy changes and congressional mandates.
• Maintain and/or continue development and fielding of the current set of automated acquisition tools in SharePoint.
• Maintain the conformed version of NGA guidance documents such as the NARI Instruction, the NGA OCS Award Fee Manual, as well as any other workflow and document management acquisition tools supporting the NGA acquisition process.
• In support of the various tools, create and administer databases, tools and software packages.
• Assist in and coach/teach/mentor personnel in generating contract documentation and complete acquisition packages including but not limited to Award Fee Plans, Acquisition and Source Selection Plans, Justification and Approvals, Determinations and Findings, and solicitations to help ensure NGA approval for both sole source and competitive awards,
• 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.
• Help create required documentation and aid in obtaining all required approvals in compliance with NGA processes and procedures.
• Guide workforce and develop source selection guidance as required.
• 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.
  

Work Schedule, Location, and Travel:

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

Requirements

• 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 the area of 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 facets 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 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
• 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)

Desired Experience:

•         Broad range of contract experience throughout the Intelligence Community (IC) (similar to the above)

•        Proven well rounded working knowledge/experience in the following:

      Major system acquisition
Simplified acquisition
Research and Development
Service Contracting
Federal Supply Schedules
Information Technology acquisitions
Other Transactions (OTAs)
Grants

Benefits

• Employer-provided paid Medical / Dental / Vision insurance.
• Employer matching 401K plan.
• PTO
• 11 Federal Holidays
• Additionally voluntary benefits to include Short / Long Term Disability, Term Life, and AD&D Insurance.