Position Title: Senior Acquisition Specialist
Location:   Chantilly, VA
Clearance Required: Top Secret/SCI

Duties:

• Support the planning and execution of end-to­ end acquisition lifecycle functions.
• Support acquisition strategies plans and processes
• Recommend acquisition planning process improvement opportunities.
• Support acquisition streamlining initiatives for new programs and capabilities under development.
• Support the Government in market research activities as required by the Government.
• Draft acquisition documents (e.g., Acquisition Strategy   Acquisition   Plan, SOWs,Task Orders), and other required solicitation/contract attachments.
• Support Request for Proposal (RFP) development and coordination activities.
• Identify formulate and collect documents for inclusion in Contractor Bidders' Library for supported acquisitions.
• Identify and assess risks associated with acquisition implementation approaches for supported acquisitions.
• Conduct programmatic analysis and provide strategic recommendations for activities or projects in the acquisition cycle.
• Support source selection evaluation activities as an advisor to the Source Selection Evaluation Team

Required Skills:

• U.S. Citizenship.
• Current Top Secret clearance with current SCI eligibility and in-scope SSBI date.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics.
• Min 12 years’ applicable experience.

• Domain knowledge of:
  • IT and Managed Service Provider Acquisition;
  • Commercial Hardware and Software Acquisition and Licensing Processes and Tools (e.g. SAP and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services Software Asset Management Tool);
  • Supply Chain Management;
  • Property Manuals and Processes
  • Service Level Agreements
  • Earned Value Management.

Desired Skills:

• Master’s degree or certification in Business, Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics
• Experience in supporting the planning and execution of end-to-end acquisition lifecycle functions.
• Experience in supporting the development of acquisition strategies, plans, and processes
• Experience in recommending acquisition planning process improvement opportunities.
• Experience in acquisition streamlining initiatives for new programs and capabilities under development.
• Experience in conducting market research activities as required by the Government.
• Experience in drafting acquisition documents (e.g., Acquisition Strategy, Acquisition Plan, SOWs, Task Orders), and other required solicitation/contract attachments.
• Experience in developing and coordinating Request for Proposal (RFP).
• Experience in identifying, formulating, and collecting documents for inclusion in Contractor Bidders' Library for supported acquisitions.
• Experience in identifying and assessing risks associated with acquisition implementation approaches for supported acquisitions.
• Experience in conducting programmatic analysis and provide strategic recommendations for activities or projects in the acquisition cycle.
• Experience in supporting source selection evaluation activities as an advisor to the Source Selection Evaluation Team.

Compass, Inc. (Compass) is a Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB) headquartered in Herndon, VA as a Defense and Intelligence solutions provider to the United States Government. We provide Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA), Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS), and Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) to our government and business partner customers. As a premier Defense and Intelligence solution provider, we employee a diverse, agile, highly trained and extremely talented staff.

Compass, Inc. is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer (M/F/D)