Jefferson Solutions, a well-respected government consulting company of the Jefferson Consulting Group, woman-owned small business, is looking for a Senior Acquisition Liaison who will provide services for our client in the United States Development Finance Corporation (DFC). You will provide subject matter expertise and operational support in all aspects of the full lifecycle customer liaison and acquisition support services to the DFC while working under the Office of Administration (OA), Corporate Acquisition Division (ACQ), Procurement Management Office (PMO).

The customer liaison and acquisition support services resides in the ACQ PMO and will provide serve as liaisons between DFC program offices and ACQ, meeting with the customer at the beginning of each acquisition and using their subject matter expertise to assist the customer with market research, acquisition planning, and by creating the professional pre-solicitation requirements documents (e.g., Statements of Work, Independent Government Cost Estimates, Market Research Reports, required justifications, etc.) needed to support the procurement process.

Acquisition Customer Liaison (ACL) services are available to support:

Pre-Award:

• Coordination of ACQ PMO priorities with the DFC Personal Services Contractor (PSC), ACQ Deputy Director or Director, or otherwise appointed ACQ personnel
• Assignment and execution of the actual workload
• Recommendations on optimal acquisition strategy and assistance with acquisition planning
• Assistance with drafting, updating, and finalizing all the pre-solicitation requirements documents, including:
  • Statement of Work (SOW) or Performance Work Statement (PWS) or Statement of Objectives (SOO) or Problem Statements and Statement of Need (when a SOW/longer requirements document is not appropriate);
  • Independent Government Cost Estimate (IGCE);
  • Market Research Report (to include appropriate NAICS codes and small business socioeconomic capability);
  • Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) Nomination;
  • Requests for Information (RFIs) (to support Market Research Reports);
  • Justification and Approval (J&A) documents;
  • Evaluation criteria; and
  • Service Level Agreements
  • Etc.
• Assistance with documenting technical requirements associated with the requirements office needs.
• Customer focused assistance, especially in the requirements development process which should be very interactive
• Participation in multi-functional meetings with the requirements office and contracting staff
• Input of all new contract action and funding requests into the contract writing system (PRISM) on the customers behalf (at DFC, PRISM is used to gather customer requirements using Requirements Workspace, create project team kickoff requirement using Requirements Checklist, create Funding Requisition, obtain budget approvals, create draft solicitations and contracts, accept, approve and track invoices, and perform data analysis)

Post-Award:

• Customer assistance with the preparation of modification request documentation to include but not limited to, the following:
  • Modification Request Form
  • PWS Scope Changes
  • IGCE for Scope Changes
  • Justification for a scope increase
  • Justification to extend services
  • SLAs for additional services
• Contract oversight and acquisition-administrative assistance in the customer offices (such as assisting CORs in monitoring contractor performance, option exercise deadline alerts, preparation of file documentation for contract close-out, and review of daily invoice status reports and recommendations on overdue invoices)
• Assistance with documenting contractor performance concerns
• Assistance with the CPARs program, from working with the customers to developing their assessments, to reviewing and assisting DFC in ensuring operational compliance of all parties
• Assistance with close-out of DFC Contracts, including preparation of all documentation for the modification file

Administrative/Programmatic Assistance:

• Ability to train ACQ PMO staff on use of PRISM
• Initiation of the contractor onboarding process and assistance with the offboarding process
• Development and maintenance of a real-time Contracting Officer Representative (COR) active repository / tracking system of appointments by date, designations by contract, and training/CLP compliance
• Assistance with COR CLPs/Training, i.e., providing ad-hoc, one-on-one training on pre-existing modules for acquisition related topics, e.g., contract administration, monitoring performance, processing invoices, documenting close-outs, etc.
• Maintain consistent oversight over the major forms of communication between the Acquisition Office and DFC CORs/the acquisition community, providing regular updates on acquisitions news, trainings, upcoming events, and policy releases.
• Oversight and updates to the ACQ COR Corner website and the DFC CORs Microsoft Teams channel
• Maintenance and oversight of an acquisition help desk email box, where questions are timely monitored, processed, and answered via this PMO MS Outlook inbox
• Hosting office hours weekly to provide real-time answers to basic customer acquisition related questions or guidance to customers on locating and completing Microsoft forms
• Assistance to purchase card manager in the operations of the purchase card program
• Assistance with drafting and keeping track of Inter-Agency Agreements (IAAs) forms, and liaising with other government contracting offices for requirements documentation
• Small business (SB) program support, outreach to foster small business participation, and tracking of SB metrics
• Assistance with Reviews/Audits/Gap Analysis on contracts and acquisition operational related topics
• Performance of targeted research and data mining on the FAR, for policy writing and inquiries into contracting operations
• Assistance and support of industry day programs

• Development of Weekly Report of Accomplishments per contractor employee, including problems encountered, and projection of work to be completed
• Development of Weekly Status Report for PMO Lead detailing completed and ongoing actions, including problems/conflicts encountered, and action items for the upcoming week
• Development of Monthly Report of work completed (sum of weekly reports), per assignment, including estimated time to project completion for ongoing assignments, problems encountered, significant accomplishments and predicted future risks

• Coordination of augmented support in circumstances where surge work is required for documents development, COR related contract oversight and invoice processing, and serving as the main office PRISM user to input funding requests and requirements spaces on the office's behalf

Jefferson Consulting Group is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, national origin, genetic data, veteran status, or any category protected by law.

Jefferson Consulting Group is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, JCG will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact the Human Resources Department at (202) 626-8550 via email: HR@jeffersonconsulting.com