Contracting Professional
What is a Contracting Professional?
Acquisition is defined to include, among traditional contracting functions, requirements definition, measurement of contract performance, and technical and management direction. Members of the acquisition workforce may include individuals who:
- Define, determine, and manage requirements,
- Are involved in acquisition planning and strategy,
- Participate in the process of establishing the business relationship to obtain needed goods and services, (e.g., contracting process, those involved in the solicitation, evaluation and award of acquisitions),
- Manage the process after business arrangements have been made to ensure that the Government's needs are met (e.g., testing and evaluating, managing and monitoring the manufacturing and production activities, auditing, contract administration, performance management and evaluation, etc.),
- Arrange disposal of any residual items after work is complete, (e.g., property management/disposal),
- Support the business processes of the above listed activities (e.g., General Counsel, finance, or other subject matter experts), and
- Directly manage those involved in any of the above activities.
Contract Specialists are in high demand as the Government's need for goods and services has increased dramatically over the past few years and the services being acquired are more technically complex as well as the projects and contracts being of longer duration. In addition, the enhanced mission of the Federal Government since 9/11 to provide for increased homeland security has resulted in a similar increased responsibility for the acquisition community.
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