Senior Contract Specialist, Cost/Price Specialist

Overview

Connexus Hub is a professional services firm that works with Government Agencies and Fortune 500 customers. Our team brings the innovation and agility of a small company along with the breadth and impact of a large firm. Our expansive range of capabilities allows us to tackle even the most complex of projects and mission needs — but it is our culture of creativity and passion that attracts the best talent, builds enduring client relationships, and leaves lasting impression.

We are looking for Senior Contract Specialist, Cost/Price Specialists to provide acquisition support, analysis, and procurement related initiatives.

• Position Type: Full time, W2 salaried plus benefits
  
• Location: 12300 Sunrise Valley Dr, Reston, VA
• Clearance: Top Secret

Responsibilities

• Review and/or generate IGCE’s, and provide value-added input to rationale for unified financially sound estimates.
• Apply analysis on cost/price proposals for all types of contract type (Examples include, but not limited to: firm-fixed price, time and materials, cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-plus-award-fee, fixed price level of effort, etc.).
• Generate a full spectrum, cost/price analysis draft report to document cost reasonableness and cost realism analysis (price realism analysis, when required). The report shall include, but not limited to:
• Conduct a comparative analysis of the IGCE against the proposed cost/pricing of all Offerors.
• Provide a total proposed cost summary.
• Analyze proposed labor rates against industry standard, bureau labor and statistics, and any other applicable resources to review proposed rates for realism.
• Conduct weighted guidelines analysis and reporting.
• Analysis of direct labor, other direct costs, severable and non-severable.
• Analysis of fixed fees or award fees applied.
• Analysis of G&A, profit, FCCM, overhead and any other cost/pricing attributes of a cost/price proposal.
• Create an Addendum Cost/Price Analysis Report, that addresses any cost/pricing proposal revisions stemming from discussions or negotiations. All aspects of the pricing changes shall be addressed in detail.
• Host discussions with contracting personnel for valued input to a Pre-Negotiation Objective Memorandum and/or a Post Negotiation Memorandum.
• Assist with any protest documentation necessary, as it relates to cost/price analysis, the cost/price analysis report, and any supporting documentation, revisions, or addendums.
• Assist and/or develop cost/price analysis training materials.

Requirements

• 9-12 years of progressive experience in Federal Government cost/price analysis, to include experience conducting cost realism and reasonableness analysis on all types of contracts; relevant experience within the last 2 years.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in an area related to finance, mathematics, or business-related study from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
• Clearance: Top Secret
• Demonstrates in-depth knowledge and understanding and experience with cost analysis during source selections and protests.
• Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of the full scope of laws, regulations, and policies that affect both the development of IGCEs and the evaluation of cost proposals.
• Demonstrates in-depth knowledge of acquisition lifecycle operations, including financial execution concepts, and provides knowledge management across organizational and intra-IC boundaries to clearly articulate key findings.
• Demonstrates ability to work independently and with minimal oversight.
• Demonstrates ability to review analytic program management data for cogent arguments, provide adequate support for conclusions, and routinely tests accuracy of analytic data.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation (DFARs) and contract administration