Contract Specialist (Early Career - Procurement)

Representative duties may include: Support acquisition and contracting activities across the contracting lifecycle. Review requisitions, specifications, purchase descriptions, and related materials for completeness and accuracy. Conduct market research to identify potential suppliers and assess their ability to meet requirements. Assist with preparing solicitation, award, contract administration, and closeout materials. Review proposal information for price, technical capability, and compliance with requirements. Support monitoring of contractor performance, deliverables, reports, and related issues. Apply federal acquisition rules, policy, and guidance under supervision to support recommendations. Use spreadsheets, collaboration platforms, dashboards, automation, or approved AI-enabled tools, where authorized, to support research, drafting, summarization, data organization, reporting, and workflow improvement. Review digital or AI-assisted outputs for accuracy, completeness, relevance