Contract and Procurement Speciliast

Katherine Santangelo
Blog 14


After researching the career of contract specialist, I came to the determination that I would like to obtain and complete the necessary requirements in order to be able to excel in this career field.

This position requires the applicant to have a 4 year degree in either a accounting, law, business administration, finance, economics, or marketing program. Another option in Lu of the degree would be to have 24 semester hours in any of the following programs: accounting, business finance, law, contracts, purchasing, economics, industrial management, marketing, quantitative methods, or organization and management. In order to qualify for a GS-9 (Entry level) position you must have all of these requirements including 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-7 grade level and to qualify for a GS-11 grade level would include all of the same requirements plus 1 years specialized experience equivalent to GS-9 grade level.

The duty requirements for Contract Specialists include solicits, negotiating, administering, close-outs, terminating purchase orders and contracts, and acquiring various commodities. Additional duties include but are not limited to developing, implementing, and reviewing contracting plans for pre-award, post award, price/cost analysis and a wide variety of procurement activities. They are also responsible for providing technical advice, guidance and legal interpretation in all areas of
contracting.

The entry-level salaries range throughout various agencies but after researching the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons pay their entry-level Contract Specialists the best ($55,000.00) because they offer Law Enforcement pay based upon the risk of working in that environment.
The entry-level salaries from the various other agencies are as follows:

Air Force Personal Center $44,601.00
Defense Logistics Agency $39,330.00
Army Contracting Agency $ 45,040.00
Transportation Federal Aviation Administration $46,784.00
Small Business Administration $48,108.00
Veterans Affairs Administration $54,494.00
Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) $48,100.00

After researching this career field it has been determined that this is an in demand career field in the Federal Government and I will be working towards obtaining all of the requirements in order to apply for a position in this line of work in the future.

Bureau of Prisons,WWW.BOP.GOV/policy/progstat/4100_004.pdf
Department of Justice, 5/19/2004

Department of Homeland Security, WWW.CBP.GOV
3/28/2008

WWW.USAJOBS.COM

WWW.SIMPLYHIRED.COM/A/JOBS/LIST/T-CONTRACT+SPECIALIST