| Title: | Acquisition SME |
|---|---|
| ID: | 1322 |
| Location: | MS2 (MD), Bolling Air Force Base (JBAB) (DC), Reston (VA) |
Responsibilities:
- Improve the quality of IT acquisition requirement packages to prepare CIO Requirements Owners for Acquisition Review Board (ARB) approval.
- Reduce the risk of protest by generating well defined requirements, clear and concise evaluation criteria, and ensure solicitations that close on time.
- Reduce the time necessary for technical evaluations by closely tying the requirement to meaningful evaluation criteria allowing for swift and decisive source selection decisions
- Utilize critical thinking skills and past experiences to provide acquisition support to CIO IT Requirements owners by providing feedback to all artifacts of acquisition packages.
- Advise CIO/PEO management in the creation of future acquisition/contract strategies to improve the agency’s approach for purchasing IT products and services.
- Provide tactical level, hands on support drafting various acquisition related documents, including but not limited to Performance Work Statements (PWS), Statements of Work (SOW’s), Independent Government Cost Estimates (IGCEs), evaluation criteria, acquisition plan’s and Justification and Approvals (J&As).
- Provide end-to-end acquisition support services for all CIO customers/stakeholders.
- Log all activity in the customer provided tracking system for management visibility and performance measurement against the Procurement Acquisition Lead Time (PALT).
- Support acquisition governance boards, working groups, and TEMS.
- Coordinate with technical experts and contracting office to ensure project milestones are reflected in contractual documents.
- Determine appropriate Government-Furnished Equipment/Information (GFE/GFI) for acquisitions based upon the scope and requirement.
- Consult and recommend business transformation tools and processes to manage pre award activities using agile methodologies to enable ruthless resource management.
- Drive process improvement to DIA’s acquisition processes and support initiatives that help shape and develop acquisition strategies for the CIO.
- Support the development of agile business transformation tools and processes to manage activities using agile methodologies.
- Work directly with stakeholders to align business and acquisition processes to industry and DIA best practices.
- Support Stakeholder Engagement in identifying and developing business needs, requirements, capability, architectures, software design, agile task prioritization, and other requirements as needed.
- Educate and guide stakeholders and pilot programs through the full acquisition lifecycle.
- Other tasks as required.
Qualifications:
- Must have an active/current TS/SCI and be able to pass a CI Poly.
- Must have 5-10 years' experience providing on-site acquisition support with DoD/IC Acquisition of Information Technology requirements.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with customer, team, and leadership.
- Understanding of the IC, IC ITE, DoD, and DIA acquisition frameworks and architectures.
- Experience with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), DoD FAR Supplements (DFARs), and/or DoD Acquisition 5000 Series and ICD 801.
Preferred Qualifications:
- DAWIA Level I, II, and/or III certification in Contracts or Program Management.
- Previous experience as a Contracting Officer/Contract Specialist (1102 series).
- Previous experience as a Government Program Manager.
- Master's degree with advanced training in DoD/IC Acquisition.
ASET Snapshot:
- We are a growing IT consulting and professional services firm that combines large-business experience with small-business efficiency and ingenuity
- Founded in 2008
- We are a HUBZone certified small business
- Profitable from day one, zero debt
- Offices in Alexandria, VA and Baltimore, MD
- Over 75 employees and growing
- Over 15 active contracts supporting 10+ Federal Agencies
- Our mission is to drastically change our client's expectations... one program at a time
Top 10 Reasons Our Employees Love Working at ASET:
1. Outstanding benefits! Including: health, dental, and vision care, a 401k retirement plan with up to a 4% company paid contribution, and employee achievement and merit awards to name a few.
2. We have very high hiring standards, so their co-workers are just as smart and talented as they are.
3. We are not profit driven; we are results driven and believe that profits will follow.
4. Unlike Office Space, our employees do not have eight bosses. They have just one or two, and they are not micromanagers. It's not our style and we just don't have time for it!
5. We're different than the rest. Our employees love our unique small-company culture.
6. We have established a trusted relationship with all our clients and refuse to make recommendations that aren't in our clients' best interests.
7. They feel appreciated and recognized for the contributions they make each day.
8. We offer a healthy work-life balance, flexible schedules, and competitive pay.
9. They love that we have been constantly growing. It's exciting to add new folks and it offers many opportunities for career advancement and growth.
10. We work hard, and we play hard, too! We host quarterly company-wide lunches, regular happy hours and an annual New Year's party in January as a way of saying 'thank you' to our hard-working staff.
