Junior Contract Support Specialist

About Blue Water Thinking Guided by our principles of value generation, continuous innovation, customer-centricity, and vested collaboration, Blue Water Thinking proudly supports our Federal clients in achieving their Agency goals. Founded by a decorated twenty-eight year Veteran of the United States Army, Blue Water Thinking understands and supports the mission of our Nation's war fighters, Veterans, their families and caretakers. Leveraging our executive team's military experience and private and public sector consulting expertise, Blue Water Thinking takes an integrated "one-team" approach and brings to bear best-fit solutions, thought leadership, and grit to meet our client's transformational needs. Fueled by our values of integrity, respect, professionalism, stewardship and customer service, the Blue Water Thinking team understands the power of the human connection, collaboration, humility and loyalty to one another, our clients and industry partners. Lastly, our formula for success is simple: Build something good, take care of our people, keep our clients satisfied, nurture our work ethic and reputation, build long-lasting partnerships, enjoy what we do and give back as much as possible.

Job Description:

Blue Water Thinking is seeking a Junior Contract Support Specialist to support a variety of acquisition support services. The Junior Contract Support Specialist will assist with strategy, planning, data analysis, requirements and/or documentation development, preparing Independent Government Cost Estimate (IGCE), compliance reviews for acquisition documents and forms in support of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Responsibilities:

Assist with advisory support and assisting functional area technical experts with the development of writing requirements into sound, sufficient Statements of Work (SOW), Performance Work Statements (PWS) and/or Orders. Assist with acquisition planning, solicitation preparation, market research and analysis, source selection document preparation. Prepare contract modifications and documents, cost/price analysis, development of analytics, create reports, preparation of contract termination documents. Successful performance will require a wide variety of associated procurement skills and activities including research, analysis, data entry, writing, document preparation, editing, scanning, document management, phone calls, faxing, filing, and other activities necessary to complete the tasks assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university as recognized by the Secretary, U.S. Department of Education.
• Minimum of two (2) years of federal contracting experience working on government acquisitions within the last five (5) years

Additional Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Ability to conduct comprehensive review of procurement documents for accuracy, adequacy, and completeness.
• Ability to identify and resolve inconsistencies through communication.
• Ability to read and interpret Federal and agency acquisition policy, regulations, and directives.
• Ability to draft and prepare contract related documents and forms.
• Ability to perform and/or evaluate market research, trends, conditions, alternative sources, and technological advances as they apply to the program.
• Ability to prepare and process purchase requisitions and procurement packages to the supporting CO for award.

Ability to research, analyze, prepare, and review invoice receipts, receiving reports, fund status, final payments, release of claims, certificates of completion, close-out documents, and any additional supporting documents or activities needed for contract closeout.

• Ability to investigate, review, and prepare open obligations/undelivered orders (UDO) for closeout.
• Ability to perform post-award administration in support of CO.
• Ability to monitor quality assurance surveillance plans (QASPs) to ensure contracted services meet contract requirements along with the expectations and needs of the facility.

Eligibility:

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain the required federal public trust clearance for this role

Compensation:

This salary range for this position is $65,000 - $75,000

• Blue Water Thinking offers a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance (medical, dental and vision), paid time off, federal holidays, and matching 401K plan.
• Our Commitment to Equal Employment Opportunity.

Blue Water Thinking, LLC (BWT) is committed to equal employment opportunity. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Applying for this Job:

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