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Overview

Summary

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Overview

Help Accepting applications Open & closing dates 10/15/2025 to 10/24/2025

What is this job?

Position: Supervisory Contract Specialist. Duties include planning, directing and executing Pre-Award contracting team activities, reviewing performance against objectives, overseeing Pre-Award actions for highly complex requirements, coordinating with agency attorneys to ensure FAR/DFAR compliance, ensuring legal, technical and administrative adequacy of contracting actions, managing subordinate training and continuous learning requirements, and serving as a warranted contracting officer for Pre-award actions up to the warrant's dollar limit.

Salary and benefits

Salary: $92,475 to $120,222 per year

Location and schedule

Location: Whitehall, OH (1 vacancy). Telework eligible: Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Travel: Occasional travel. Appointment type: Permanent – Multiple Appointment Types. Work schedule: Full-time. Service: Competitive. Promotion potential: 12. Job family (Series): 1102 Contracting.

Security and other requirements

• Supervisory status: Yes
• Security clearance: Other
• Drug test: No
• Financial disclosure: Yes
• Bargaining unit status: No

Important dates

Announcement number: DLAWpnSpt-26-12815439-MP. Control number: 848164700.

Who may apply

Internal to an agency: Current federal employees of the hiring agency that posted the job announcement. Clarification: Agency means current permanent DLA employees in the commuting area.

Duties

• As a Supervisory Contract Specialist you will be responsible for the following duties:
• Plan, direct and execute the activities and programs for the Pre-Award contracting team.
• Review performance to determine whether objectives and/or goals are being met.
• Oversee the implementation of all Pre-Award actions for highly complex and highly technical requirements.
• Coordinate with agency attorney's to ensure FAR and DFAR requirements are met on all Pre-Award actions.
• Ensure legal, technical and administrative adequacy of contracting actions, as well as compliance with applicable regulations, policies and directives.
• Manage subordinate training to ensure Defense Acquisition training requirements including Continuous Learning. modules are met to hold warrants or Government Credit Cards.
• Serve as a warranted contracting officer for Pre-award actions, up to the dollar limit specified in the warrant.

Qualifications

To qualify for a Supervisory Contract Specialist, your resume and supporting documentation must support:

A. Basic Contracting Requirement: A bachelor's degree from an accredited educational institution OR a current civilian DoD employee or armed forces member in qualifying contracting positions with authority to award or administer contracts above the simplified acquisition threshold as of before September 30, 2000 is excluded from the requirements of "A)."

B. Contracting Officer Requirement: Must possess at least two years of experience in a contracting position.

C. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience related to this position. For GS-12, specialized experience must be at the GS-11 level or equivalent. Creditable experience includes:

• Applying contracting principles, laws, statues, regulations and procedures for pre-award actions.
• Experience with federal contract methods and contract types as a Warranted Contracting Officer.
• Using negotiation techniques with private sector and government representatives.
• Written communications with vendors/customers.
• Using cost and pricing techniques to procure items timely and within fiscal restraints.

Education, transcripts, and foreign education guidance are described in the following sections.

Education and substitutions

Substitution of education may not be used in lieu of specialized experience for this grade level. If using education to qualify, provide transcripts. Foreign education must be evaluated for equivalence.

Additional information

For Important General Applicant Information and Definitions see the Gen App Info and Definitions. Reemployed Annuitants not eligible. DoD certification and other requirements apply. 80 Continuous Learning Points every 2 years. See Addtl Info for details.

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How to apply

To apply, read the entire announcement and submit a complete Application Package by 11:59 PM (ET) on the closing date. Steps:

1. Click Apply Online.
2. Attach all necessary supporting documentation. Resumes up to two pages accepted; longer resumes will be removed from consideration.
3. Submit the application by 11:59 PM (ET) on 10/24/2025.
4. You may be asked to take online assessments (SSJT). If so, follow the instructions in the message and review Computer System Requirements.

After submission, you may update your documents during the open period and check status in USAJOBS.

Agency contact information

DLA Weapons Support Columbus

Phone: 614-###-####

Email: ...@dla.mil

Address: DLA Weapons Support – Columbus, 3990 East Broad Street, Columbus, OH 43213, US

Next steps

If qualified, you may receive instructions to access the SSJT. Assessments must be completed within 48 hours after close unless Reasonable Accommodation is requested. Your results may be kept on record for one year for future jobs.

Fair and transparent: Criminal history inquiries, EEO policy, Financial suitability, Privacy Act, Reasonable accommodation policy, Selective Service, Signature and false statements, Social security number request.

Required documents

Required Documents: A complete Application Package including resume and supporting documents. See the vacancy for the full list. For examples, refer to Supporting Documents and the Reasonable Accommodation documentation process.