Clarification from the agency

All U.S. Citizens. This is a Direct-Hire Public Notice.

• Execute/promote timely responses to general vendor requests where appropriate, including from new entrants, women and minority owned businesses and small businesses; collect, maintain, and perform analysis on procurement data as it relates to contracts awarded small businesses in general; work with the internal stakeholders to drive practices that improve communication with vendors.
• Review and update, as appropriate, the FDIC’s Vendor Communication Plan to improve interaction throughout the acquisition lifecycle; perform outreach activities to assist program and acquisition personnel develop strategies for engaging potential vendors that can provide capabilities necessary to achieve agency missions.
• Design, implement, and manage a Supplier Performance Management function to identify supplier performance trends and develop an enterprise response to the trends.
• Conduct supplier segmentation of vendors currently doing business with the FDIC to include spend, growth, mission criticality and size or socioeconomic status; analyze segmentation to determine critical suppliers, strategic suppliers, transactional suppliers, or where the FDIC might be over relying on particular suppliers. Define, identify, and expand use of supplier data analytics to make more informed supplier management decisions.
• Serve as the Contracting Officer, in the event of financial crisis or other emergencies as required, for projects of the most complex or sensitive nature from preparation and issuance of appropriate pre-solicitation to contract administration documentation.
• Directs a full range of contract administrative actions to include, but not limited to, conducting debriefings/post award conferences; issuance of modifications, negotiations of changes, monitoring contractor performance, and other administrative activities.

Conditions of employment

Registration with the Selective Service.

U.S. Citizenship is required.  

Employment Conditions.

Completion of Financial Disclosure may be required.

Background Investigation (BI) required

Qualifications

Qualifying experience may be obtained in the private or public sector. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g. Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic, religious spiritual; community; student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.  Additional qualifications information can be found here.

Basic Requirements:

1. At least 4-years’ experience in contracting or related positions. At least 1 year of that experience must have been specialized experience at or equivalent to work at the next lower level of the position, and must have provided the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the work of the position.
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2. A 4-year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree, that included or was supplemented by at least 24 semester hours in any combination of the following fields: accounting, business, finance, law, contracts, purchasing, economics, industrial management, marketing, quantitative methods, or organization and management.
3. Exceptions: Employees in GS-1102 positions will be considered to have met the standard for positions they occupy on January 1, 2000. This also applies to positions at the same grade in the same agency or other agencies if the specialized experience requirements are met. However, they will have to meet the basic requirements and specialized experience requirements in order to qualify for promotion to a higher grade.

Specialized Experience:

In addition to the Basic Requirements, to qualify, applicants must have completed at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the CG/GS-13 grade level or above in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as directing and managing all phases of the procurement process, from solicitation to contract closeout, in order to serve as key advisor on the acceptability and applicability of contractual matters. 

YOU MUST PROVIDE ALL TRANSCRIPT(S) (unofficial copy is acceptable).

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

This is a Direct-Hire Public Notice.  Applications will be accepted for the location identified in the public notice.  Veteran’s preference and traditional rating and ranking of applicants DO NOT apply to positions filled under this public notice. 

All complete applications (transcripts must be included, if applicable) will be verified for eligibility requirements and will be submitted to the hiring official upon request.

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Upon the submission of your application package to USAJobs.gov, you will receive an automatic reply informing you that your application has been submitted, received and is being processed. If you provided an email address, you will receive an email message acknowledging the receipt of your application. Your application will remain active through the open period of this Public Notice. You will not receive any additional notifications, and your resume may not be reviewed for qualifications unless a position is requested to be filled by the hiring official. After you submit your application, you will be contacted only if further evaluation or interviews are required or upon your selection.”

If requested by Management, your application will be reviewed to determine whether you meet the qualification requirements outlined in this announcement. Therefore, it is imperative that your resume contain sufficiently detailed information upon which to make the qualification determination. Please ensure that your resume contains specific information such as position titles, beginning and ending dates of employment for each position, average number of hours worked per week, and if the position is/was in the Federal government, you should provide the position series and grade level.

You do not need to respond separately to these KSAs. Your resume will serve as responses to the KSAs.

1. Skill in vendor communications at each state of the industry engagement process – basic market awareness, pre-award market research, solicitation and award for a specific contract, post award communication and detailed performance expectation setting, operational performance and contract administration.
2. Knowledge and skill in engaging the broader acquisition community, comprised of program managers, contracting officers, and executives to increase awareness of available avenues to best engage private sector.
3. Skill in assessing and evaluating business operations as they relate to performance requirements of contractors to include ethical and conflict of interest issues.
4. Knowledge of related disciplines and functions involved in the acquisition process, such as design or systems engineering, integrated logistical support, financial management, and their interrelationships with contracting.
5. Knowledge of procurement regulations and contracting principles, procedures and techniques, including pricing arrangements, cost accounting and life cycle costing related to advanced acquisition programs.
6. Skill in negotiating techniques to develop strategies, complete acquisitions, and in directing or performing post-award negotiations involving contract changes or modifications.