Acquisition Utilization Specialists (AUS) / 1101s   3

Acquisition Utilization Specialists The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA), has a need for an experienced contractor who has six (6) or more years of experience supplying acquisition support services to federal agencies. The experienced contractor shall provide senior expert Acquisition Utilization Specialists (AUS) who have extensive knowledge and federal government contracting experience in all stages of the acquisition life cycle. Contractor personnel will work off-site (virtually /remotely) for one of eight (8) VA Network Contracting Offices (NCOs) and the Program Contracting Activity Central (PCAC) office. The Contractor shall provide senior qualified personnel to perform non-personal acquisition support services in accordance with a Performance Work Statement (PWS) and Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 7.503(c)(12). Contractor personnel shall provide diverse acquisition support services to VA officials and stakeholders in all phases of the acquisition lifecycle including, but not limited to requirements for Medical Sharing, Services, Commodities/Supplies, Specialized Procurements, Leasing, Utilities, Construction, and/or Architectural and Engineering (A&E) in both pre-award and post-award activities and administration. Acquisition utilization support services may include, but is not limited to strategy, planning, data analysis, requirements and/or documentation development, preparing Independent Government Cost Estimate (IGCE), compliance reviews for acquisition documents and forms. AUS shall provide advisory support and assist functional area technical experts with the development of writing requirements into sound/sufficient Statement of Work (SOW), PWS and/or Orders. Other support functions may include acquisition planning, solicitation preparation, market research/analysis, source selection document preparation, administration of terms and conditions, preparing contract modifications and documents, cost/price analysis, development of analytics, creating reports, preparation of contract termination documents, and drafting contract close-out documents. See the Posted Solicitation 36C77623Q0063

Background
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA), has a need for an experienced contractor who has six (9) or more years of experience supplying acquisition support services to federal agencies. The experienced contractor shall provide senior expert Acquisition Utilization Specialists (AUS) who have extensive knowledge and federal government contracting experience in all stages of the acquisition life cycle. Contractor personnel will work off-site (virtually /remotely) for one of eight (8) VA Network Contracting Offices (NCOs) identified in Attachment D.1. or for the Program Contracting Activity Central (PCAC) office.

Work Details
The Contractor shall provide senior qualified personnel to perform non-personal acquisition support services this Performance Work Statement (PWS) and Part 7.503(c)(12).
Contractor personnel shall provide diverse acquisition support services to VA officials and stakeholders in all phases of the acquisition lifecycle including, but not limited to requirements for Medical Sharing, Services, Commodities/Supplies, Specialized Procurements, Leasing, Utilities, Construction, and/or Architectural and Engineering (A&E) in both pre-award and post-award activities and administration. Acquisition utilization support services may include strategy, planning, data analysis, requirements and/or documentation development, preparing Independent Government Cost Estimate (IGCE), compliance reviews for acquisition documents and forms.

Period of Performance
Contract Period: BasePOP Begin: 02-20-2023 - POP End: 02-19-2024

Place of Performance
The geographic location(s) the contract will be performed: Off-site for one of eight (8) VA Network Contracting Offices (NCOs) identified in Attachment D.1 or for the Program Contracting Activity Central (PCAC) office.