Contracting Officer Representative Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Minimum of 4 years’ experience in supporting COR in a shipbuilding environment.
• Bachelor of Science degree in a business/technical field with a minimum of 24 business credits.
• Substitution for a Bachelor of Science degree will be minimum of four years of relevant experience in addition to the required minimum years of experience.
• Comprehensive knowledge of shipbuilding processes, techniques, and procedures.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR).
• Knowledge and skill in applying analytical and evaluative methods and techniques to organize, plan, conduct, evaluate and administer contract requirements.
• The ability to produce COR reports, briefs, and presentations using the contractors provided data.
• Knowledge of economic, statistical, accounting, fact-finding, and financial analysis principles and techniques necessary to analyze historical cost and schedule, analyze reports of auditors, Technical specialists, and contractor personnel to assess actual EVMS compliance and verify and interpret contractor developed cost and schedule performance data, and project cost and schedule performance trends, isolate disruptive factors, and estimate final contract cost.
• Familiarity with DCMA and DCAA standards guidelines and best practices.
• Comprehensive knowledge of auditing organizations (such as DCMA and DCAA), programs, and functions and knowledge of the overall acquisition process in order to adapt general guidance and policy and develop specific guidance peculiar to the PRO mission.
• Knowledge of the technical capabilities, functions and responsibilities of other contract administration service organizations sufficient to identify the need for special reports or assistance in evaluating contractor cost and performance data, establishing trends, and estimated final contract cost.
• Knowledge of Microsoft office software suite to include Word, PowerPoint, Access, and Excel.
• Must be able to obtain Secret level security clearance, position has financial insight to data.

Nice To Haves

• Best Value Trade Off Report.
• Be familiar with price/cost analysis, contracting procedures, socioeconomic policies.
• The Contractor should also be familiar with the Federal Acquisition Regulations, various contract types including best value source selection and low price technically acceptable procedures, as well as be well versed in contract administration.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Contracting Officer Representative (COR) and Alternate Contracting Officer Representative (ACOR) with conducting cost and/or price analysis and develop as applicable.
• Receive responses and assist COR Team and Project Manager with cost/price analysis and development of pre/post negotiation memorandum as required.
• Support the COR Team with contract administration duties such as preparing contractor discrepancy reports, drafting entries for the Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System, requests for equitable adjustments, cure letters, and default packages.
• Receive tasking from the COR or ACOR for services including assisting with the development of Independent Government Cost Estimates (IGCE), Requests for Proposal (RFP), Technical Assessment Review (TAR), Market Research, and Engineering Change Proposal (ECP) processes and procedures.
• Assist the COR and ACOR in reviewing Common Access Card (CAC) applications and in the reviewing of assigned CACs every six months.
• Assist the COR /ACOR with processing invoices for payment on assigned Task Orders (TO).
• Assist the COR/ ACOR with administratively closing out TO assuring satisfactory completion and inclusion of final reports and evaluation.
• Assist the COR/ACOR with developing milestones, reports, and trackers for all COR type actionable items such as ECP, TAR, RFP, IGCE, etc.
• Create standardized reports, presentation graphs and track the status of COR /ACOR actionable items and process metrics on usage of the workflow capability.
• Prepare Market Research Reports, Request for Proposal/Request for Quote, Price/Cost Analysis, Best Value Trade Off Reports, (COR)/Alternate Contracting Officer Representative (ACOR) Correspondence, and other acquisition plan and execution documents.