Contract Specialist III

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New Mexico.

📋 Description

• Provide guidance to program officials regarding the procurement of supplies and services, including source selection methods, evaluation of price proposals, contract management, termination, and closeout processes.

• Execute contract management for various IA offices and clients.

• Oversee contractor performance, validate deliveries, address performance concerns, and assist in resolving contract-related issues.

• Conduct research and draft contract modifications while analyzing alternatives, contractor capabilities, and performance factors.

• Perform cost and price analyses of contractor proposals along with supporting documentation.

• Assist in the creation of cost-related sections within solicitation documents.

• Contribute to budget formulation for prospective procurements.

• Assess solicitations for completeness, accuracy, pricing structures, and consistency between price and technical specifications.

• Analyze contractor price and cost proposals for new procurements, modifications, changes, and ongoing requirements.

• Aid in period-of-performance extensions, contract closeouts, cancellations, and terminations.

• Protect IA interests by ensuring compliance with relevant laws, executive orders, regulations, acquisition requirements, and established protocols.

• Support customers in creating statements of work, statements of need/objectives, acquisition strategies, evaluation plans, and pricing methodologies.

• Act as a key contact and business advisor to program officials on acquisition and administrative issues.

• Coordinate the administration of long-term and technically intricate service contracts across various contract types.

• Supervise contractor performance, progress payments, schedules, deliveries, change-order proposals, performance concerns, and proposed resolutions.

• Interpret contract provisions for contractors and IA officials while providing acquisition guidance.

• Negotiate contract modifications of medium complexity, including change orders and ratifications of unauthorized commitments.

• Establish negotiation strategies through the analysis of contractor and technical information.

• Conduct comprehensive cost and price analyses for complex acquisitions.

• Assess contractor management, operational, and financial capabilities.

• Coordinate disputes regarding extensions, delivery and acceptance, payments, closeouts, cancellations, and terminations.

• Assist in preparing IA responses to protests.

• Support complex, sensitive, and high-priority procurement programs while offering acquisition guidance to team members.

• Collaborate with acquisition team members and provide insights on work, procurement, and administrative matters.

• Execute pre-award acquisition tasks, including acquisition planning, determinations and findings, solicitation documents, and cost/price proposal analyses.

• Carry out post-award acquisition activities, such as contract modifications, stop-work orders, cure notices, show-cause letters, payments, closeouts, and termination actions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in developing solutions and making recommendations across multiple tasks, projects, or organizations.

• In-depth knowledge of Federal contracting laws, regulations, policies, and both pre- and post-award procedures.

• Experience in managing complex contracts and monitoring the performance of both prime and subcontractors.

• Familiarity with Federal contracting methods, contract types, acquisition strategies, and documentation needs.

• Understanding of business practices and market conditions relevant to Government acquisitions.

• Experience in evaluating program requirements, technical approaches, capabilities, and contractor performance.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present analyses, findings, and performance results effectively.

• Demonstrated experience in negotiating and coordinating with Government and private-sector representatives.

• Capability to analyze complex acquisition issues, develop alternatives, and suggest effective contracting strategies.

• Ability to work with moderate independence, prioritize competing tasks, and meet tight deadlines.

• Capacity to work remotely between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.

• Available to work 40 hours per week.

🏝️ Benefits

• 40 hours per week.

• Eight (8) paid hours per shift.

• Remote work arrangement.