Remote Acquisitions Specialist II
About The Position
The Acquisition Specialist II supports HUD Contracting Officers, Contract Specialists, and CORs throughout the acquisition lifecycle, from planning and market research through award, administration, and closeout. The role prepares preliminary drafts and analyses, researches regulations, performs consistency and completeness checks, and maintains acquisition files and trackers. This is a support role. Contracting Officers retain all acquisition decision-making authority and approve and issue solicitations, awards, and modifications on behalf of the Government. The specialist’s work products are preliminary and subject to Government review. This is an independent contractor engagement at $115,000 per year for the full-time Base Period. Continued work during Option Periods depends on HUD exercising each option and on available funding. The agreement ends automatically if HUD cancels the supporting task order. The contractor must give McGarity at least seven days’ notice before ending the engagement and provide their own equipment and workspace. McGarity is closed on Federal holidays; planned time offline is shared with the McGarity lead two weeks in advance. Applicants should send a resume and a short cover letter describing their Federal acquisition experience and FAC-C certification to Lelyn Knowlden at [email protected]. The McGarity Consulting Group, Inc. is committed to equal opportunity and considers qualified applicants without regard to protected characteristics.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in business, public administration, contracting, or a related field.
- At least 3 years of Federal acquisition or contract specialist experience.
- Federal Acquisition Certification in Contracting (FAC-C), Practitioner, or former Level I or II.
- Working knowledge of the FAR and acquisition lifecycle, including market research, solicitation preparation, price analysis, award, modifications, and closeout.
- Strong attention to detail in checklist reviews, consistency checks, and file management.
- Advanced Excel skills for price comparisons and trackers.
- Ability to protect procurement-sensitive, source-selection, and Privacy Act information and stay within contractor support boundaries.
- Ability to obtain HUD system access, including any background investigation required by the Government.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting HUD OCPO or another civilian agency procurement office.
- Familiarity with HUDAR and HUD acquisition templates and procedures.
- Hands-on experience with Federal contract writing systems, SAM.gov, and electronic contract files.
- Experience supporting source selections under procurement integrity and nondisclosure requirements.
- Experience producing Section 508-compliant documents.
Responsibilities
- Review acquisition packages for completeness and flag documentation gaps, inconsistencies, or risks.
- Conduct market research on acquisition vehicles, sources, NAICS codes, Product Service Codes, and socioeconomic data; prepare preliminary market research summaries.
- Assist with Requests for Information and Sources Sought notices and develop acquisition milestone schedules.
- Prepare preliminary acquisition planning documents and research FAR, HUDAR, and HUD policy requirements.
- Prepare preliminary solicitation documents in Government-approved templates using Government-provided requirements, clauses, and evaluation criteria.
- Prepare preliminary notices and amendments, maintain question-and-answer logs, and conduct cross-document consistency reviews and checklist verification before Government review.
- When authorized, maintain evaluation repositories, run compliance checks, and organize proposals for Government evaluators.
- Prepare evaluation templates, consolidate evaluator comments without changing their substance, and maintain clarification logs.
- Organize proposed pricing, verify calculations, and build price comparison spreadsheets.
- Compare proposed prices with historical, catalog, market, or Government estimates; flag pricing anomalies and prepare preliminary price/cost analyses documenting data sources and methodology.
- Prepare preliminary award documents, checklists, abstracts, and data-entry worksheets; verify approved terms and consistency across award documents.
- Maintain contract trackers for milestones, expiration dates, option exercise dates, and Government-provided funding balances.
- Prepare preliminary modification documents, correspondence logs, and status reports; flag schedule, funding, or performance issues.
- Review files against closeout checklists, identify missing documents and apparent unliquidated obligations, and prepare preliminary closeout documents.
- Organize electronic acquisition files using Government naming conventions and perform checklist quality reviews.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
