Contract Specialist-Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, ME

Category Procurement

Established in 2006, Interactive Government Holdings, Inc. (IGH) is a leading professional services and technology provider to the Federal Government. Our mission is to serve uniformed service members globally and their support systems locally. We utilize strategy, data science, and technology to make the programs we execute more efficient for the people our programs serve. IGH has a national and international program staff and a corporate headquarters located in Springfield, Virginia.

We are proud of our ability to shape tomorrow while ensuring all active‑duty personnel and reservists can carry out their critical missions and tasks today.

Interactive Government Holdings (IGH) is seeking qualified, trained and capable individual to serve as a Contract Specialist.

The Contract Specialist supports acquisition and contracting activities for Portsmouth Naval Shipyard operations in Kittery, Maine. The position performs pre‑award and post‑award functions for supplies, services, construction, and other mission‑support requirements. The specialist works with requiring activities, technical personnel, legal counsel, financial staff, vendors, and contracting leadership to develop sound acquisition strategies, execute compliant procurements, and administer awards through closeout.

Conduct services on‑site at the Contracting and Logistics office spaces primarily located at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

• Provide critical analysis and pricing support, which utilizes advanced Excel functions to arrive at fixed‑priced rates and cost reimbursable projections extracted from very large datasets. Contractors must demonstrate strong experience in use of key advanced Excel functions and concepts such as:
• Use of HLOOKUP, VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP functions for retrieving values from pricing data tables based on specific criteria to compute differential values and make extensive pricing adjustments to existing contracts and evaluate pricing for source selection on new solicitations
• Expertise in constructing Pivot Tables used to quickly summarize, analyze, and report on large amounts of data containing millions of identifiable pricing points as well as creating special calculators for ACOs and CORs to facilitate invoice review and approvals involving multiple thousands of contractual pricing amounts for both fixed priced and cost reimbursable services.
• Expertise in use of conditional formatting using custom formulas for visually highlighting relative values considered in price analysis.
• Expertise in use of complex, nested functions.
• Assist the program offices in preparing Independent Government Estimates (IGEs). Research may include, but is not limited to, previous purchases for the same products or services; current market value of the products or services; and other agency purchases of similar products and services.
• Provide advice and recommendations for all elements in acquisition strategy building, including approaches, options, strategies, risks, contracting methods, competition, sources, cost, milestone schedule, etc.
• Prepare Request for Quotes (RFQs), Request for Proposals (RFPs) and Combined Synopsis/Solicitations. Assure that the solicitation includes all appropriate terms and conditions. Recommend and prepare unique terms and conditions as required. Prior to release of solicitation, verify that funds are available and obtain legal concurrence, if applicable.
• Assist in the evaluation process and assure written documentation to support informal or formal source selection procedures. If formal source selection procedures are used -…