Acquisition & Assistance Specialist
Current• Responsible for assisting the USAID/Liberia mission with the full range of acquisition and assistance support, from procurement planning through negotiation, award, administration, performance monitoring, and finally to closeout while fully complying with all the US Government’s relevant laws, regulations and procedures in a customer oriented manner. With limited or no supervision, provide guidance for evaluation team when bids, proposals and applications are been evaluated to ensure that all… Show more • Responsible for assisting the USAID/Liberia mission with the full range of acquisition and assistance support, from procurement planning through negotiation, award, administration, performance monitoring, and finally to closeout while fully complying with all the US Government’s relevant laws, regulations and procedures in a customer oriented manner. With limited or no supervision, provide guidance for evaluation team when bids, proposals and applications are been evaluated to ensure that all published evaluation criteria and factors as well as U.S. Govt.-wide, USAID and mission procedures are followed. • Responsible for pre-award and post award functions such as, cost/price analysis, negotiation, and administration for most of USAID/Liberia’s Mission Team. Currently, overseeing the Health Team which has a portfolio value of $274 million and Democracy & Governance which has a portfolio value of $258 million. • Provides contracting advice on a variety of technical services required by the Agency including reasonability of contractor/grantee salaries, types of allowances, fee/profit calculation, drafting clear and technical evaluation memo. • Responsible for developing solicitation documents, solicitation analysis, drafting request for proposal or application, drafting contracts and contracts amendments, negotiation of offeror’s proposal/applications, drafting Negotiation Memorandum, reviewing draft Scope of Work (SOW), maintaining contract files (ASIST), planning post and pre-award meetings, monitoring and updating procurement plans, and researching complex procurement issues.Provide contracting guidance to the Economic Growth/Construction portfolio at USAID/Liberia. Show less