Cost Price Analyst - Federal Acquisition Service

Summary

As a Contract Price/Cost Analyst, you will analyze and evaluate price and cost data contained in a variety of contract proposals.

GSA, Federal Acquisition Service, Information Technology Category at one of the locations listed. We are currently filling two vacancies, but additional vacancies may be filled as needed. Location determined at time of selection.

• Perform cost and/or price analysis of data to determine the reasonableness of prices proposed or quoted for equipment, supplies, or services to be procured, and prices and related data associated with changes and other modifications.
• Develop and interpret pricing policies, monitor pricing practices in procurement, develop innovative solicitation provisions to maximize competition, perform commercial pricing market research, promote and assist the utilization of streamlined source selection procedures, and prepare and present training in price/cost analysis. Provide guidance to management on the effect of solicitation provisions on competition, commerciality, and price. Recommend tailoring existing provisions or using alternative provisions that are consistent with common commercial practices.
• Establish, design systems, and conduct market research, including the extent of competition, price trends, and government and commercial user information. Direct the implementation of contract price management mechanisms and price refreshments.
• Coordinate with contracting officers to negotiate termination settlements and settlement agreements and prepare the supplemental agreements to reflect the settlement. Assist senior staff members in developing economic price adjustment clauses for use in multiyear contracts and contracts with option years, based on commercial market analysis and changes to established economic price adjustment clauses to reflect current economic or market trends. Evaluate cost/price proposals during negotiations, including interpreting the impact of proposed changes to solicitation provisions for price impact and consistency with common commercial practice.
  
  Work with senior contracting and program staff in recommending either amending the solicitation or other solutions to problems.
• Review Independent Government Cost Estimates (IGCE) to assure they are in order to provide a basis for total cost/price comparison. Use IGCEs in consonance with sound pricing practices, as part of the basis for reaching a decision as to the fairness and reasonableness and/or cost realism of a prospective contractor's proposal.

Conditions of employment:

• US Citizenship or National (Residents of American Samoa and Swains Island)
• Meet all eligibility criteria within 30 days of the closing date
• Meet time-in-grade within 30 days of the closing date, if applicable
• Register with Selective Service if you are a male born after 12/31/1959

If selected, you must meet the following conditions:

• Current or Former Political Appointees:
  The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C or Non-Career SES employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the HR Office. Failure to disclose could result in disciplinary action including removal from Federal Service.
• Serve a one‑year probationary period, if required.
• Undergo and pass a background investigation (Tier 2 investigation level).
• Have your identity and work status eligibility verified if you are not a GSA employee. We will use the Department of Homeland Security’s e‑Verify system for this. Any discrepancies must be resolved as a condition of continued employment.
• Complete a financial disclosure report to verify that no conflict, or an appearance of conflict, exists between your financial interest and this position.

For each job on your resume, provide:

• The exact dates you held each job (from month/year to month/year)
• Number of hours per week you worked (if part time)

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