Contract Specialist - Senior Acquisition Team Lead; DC)

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FULL TIME Professional Fairfax, VA, US

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

Position Summary:

Central Research, Inc. (CRI) is looking for a Contract Specialist V-Senior Acquisition Team Lead to support our government contract. The Contract Specialist V – Senior Acquisition Team Lead is a senior working acquisition professional responsible for cradle-to-grave acquisition support and technical leadership of assigned acquisition-support personnel. The position assists Government contracting personnel with pre‑award, award, post‑award, modification, contract administration, file maintenance, and closeout activities while ensuring work is timely, accurate, well documented, and consistent with applicable federal acquisition requirements.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead and perform pre‑award acquisition support from requirements development through solicitation and award.
• Assist with research, preparation, review, and coordination of Statements of Objectives, Statements of Work, Performance Work Statements, Independent Government Cost Estimates, evaluation criteria, and related requirements documents.
• Conduct and document market research, including identification of potential sources, socio‑economic categories, and contract vehicles.
• Research historical purchases, current market conditions, and comparable agency acquisitions to support cost estimates and acquisition strategies.
• Research acquisition approaches, strategies, risks, contracting methods, sources, and milestone schedules and provide recommendations to Government personnel.
• Draft, review, and organize justifications, memoranda, determinations and findings, quality assurance surveillance plans, evaluation criteria, source‑selection plans, and other supporting documents.
• Prepare draft requests for proposals and requests for quotations and recommend appropriate solicitation terms and conditions.
• Provide administrative and analytical support for source selections, including proposal compliance reviews, consolidation of evaluation materials, and coordination of required conflict‑of‑interest and nondisclosure documentation.
• Assist with analysis of complex contractor price proposals, including price analysis, price objectives, technical evaluation coordination, and adequacy/compliance reviews.
• Support award activities, including preparation of award documentation, contractor responsibility research, COR designation documentation, and Federal Procurement Data System inputs.
• Prepare and support simple and complex contract modifications, option exercises, administrative changes, ceiling increases, scope changes, novations, and related actions.
• Analyze contract files, correspondence, status reports, and meeting information to support CPARS documentation by Government personnel.
• Maintain complete and accurate pre‑award and post‑award contract files in the designated repository and within applicable timelines.
• Support annual COR file reviews and contract closeout, including document collection, file preparation, digitization, storage, and disposition activities.
• Provide technical guidance, mentoring, workload coordination, and quality review for assigned acquisition‑support personnel.
• Identify issues, risks, missing documentation, and potential schedule impacts and elevate them through the established management structure.
• Ensure recommendations and support activities remain advisory and do not constitute inherently governmental contracting authority.
• Perform other related duties consistent with the position’s scope and the needs of the program.

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