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(USFS) is a management consulting firm with offices and staff in the DC metro area. USFS was founded in 2010 and provides financial management, acquisition management, program management, and data analytic support services to federal and state governments.\nManagement Contract Support Manager\nDepartment of Veterans Affairs - Network Contracting Office 23\nPosition Overview\nUS Federal Solutions is seeking an experienced Management Contract Support Manager to support the Department of Veterans Affairs, Network Contracting Office 23.\nThis position combines senior-level federal acquisition expertise with direct management responsibility for a team of acquisition professionals. The successful candidate will provide leadership, technical oversight, and hands-on acquisition support across the full procurement lifecycle while helping ensure that contract actions are completed accurately, efficiently, and in compliance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), Veterans Affairs Acquisition Regulation (VAAR), and other applicable policies and procedures.\nThe Management Contract Support Manager will oversee personnel supporting complex acquisitions of varying types and dollar values, including acquisitions above the Simplified Acquisition Threshold. This individual will also support workforce planning, hiring, onboarding, performance management, work assignment, employee development, and offboarding activities for the acquisition support team.\nKey Responsibilities\nLead and manage a team of federal acquisition professionals supporting VA contracting activities across multiple acquisition types, service lines, and dollar values.\nProvide technical direction, guidance, coaching, and quality oversight to junior, mid-level, and senior acquisition support personnel.\nAssign and balance procurement workloads based on complexity, priority, staff capability, customer needs, and acquisition timelines.\nReview resumes, participate in candidate interviews, support hiring decisions, and coordinate government onboarding activities for acquisition personnel.\nConduct employee performance reviews, provide ongoing feedback and coaching, address performance concerns, and support employee discipline and offboarding when necessary.\nSupport complex pre-award and post-award acquisition activities, including requirements development, acquisition planning, solicitation development, evaluation, award, administration, modifications, and closeout.\nProvide acquisition support for procurements above the Simplified Acquisition Threshold and other high-value or technically complex contracting actions.\nReview acquisition packages, solicitations, source selection documentation, evaluation criteria, contract modifications, and supporting materials for quality, completeness, and regulatory compliance.\nResearch, interpret, and apply the FAR, VAAR, agency policy, federal and state laws, and other applicable acquisition guidance.\nAdvise Contracting Officers, Contract Specialists, program managers, technical personnel, and requiring activities on acquisition strategy, procurement planning, contract administration, and risk.\nAnalyze difficult contracting issues and develop practical alternative courses of action to resolve procurement, performance, pricing, schedule, or compliance concerns.\nCollaborate with customers and stakeholders across multiple sites and service lines to define and standardize enterprise requirements for equipment, supplies, services, and healthcare-related needs.\nAssist with the development and refinement of source selection evaluation criteria and proposal evaluation approaches.\nConduct gap analyses and assess cost elements associated with the production, management, and delivery of healthcare services, products, supplies, and other mission requirements.\nSupport development and review of Independent Government Cost Estimates, price analyses, cost-benefit analyses, and other acquisition-related financial documentation.\nPrepare and review complete procurement packages for Contracting Officer review in accordance with customer requirements and VA policies and procedures.\nMonitor team performance, acquisition progress, workload status, and deliverable quality to ensure requirements remain on schedule.\nMaintain clear communication with VA leadership and stakeholders regarding staffing, workload, procurement status, risks, and recommended corrective actions.\nManagement Responsibilities\nThe successful candidate will have demonstrated experience managing government procurement teams and should be comfortable handling both technical acquisition oversight and personnel management.\nManagement responsibilities include:\nResume review and candidate screening.\nInterviewing and hiring support.\nGovernment onboarding coordination.\nTeam leadership and day-to-day personnel management.\nProcurement workload assignment and prioritization.\nEmployee coaching and development.\nFormal and informal performance reviews.\nPerformance improvement and employee discipline.\nTeam member transition and offboarding.\nQuality assurance and review of acquisition work products.\nWorkload forecasting and resource planning\nWhat We Are Looking For\nThe ideal candidate is an experienced acquisition leader who can manage people and complex procurement activities with equal effectiveness. This individual should be comfortable supervising a team, reviewing acquisition work products, advising government customers, resolving challenging contracting issues, and ensuring that procurement activities remain compliant, accurate, and on schedule.\nThis role is well suited for a senior federal acquisition professional who enjoys leading teams, mentoring contracting personnel, improving acquisition quality, and helping the VA execute mission-critical procurements that support Veterans.\nWork Schedule, Location, and Travel:\nRemote\nRequirements\nRequired Qualifications\nMinimum of five years of recent relevant experience within the last seven years providing comprehensive and complex federal acquisition support.\nMinimum of three years of recent experience within the last seven years managing government procurement teams.\nDemonstrated experience managing personnel activities including recruiting, interviewing, hiring, onboarding, work assignment, employee reviews, performance management, discipline, and offboarding.\nDemonstrated experience supporting both pre-award and post-award federal acquisition activities.\nExperience supporting federal acquisitions above the Simplified Acquisition Threshold.\nExtensive knowledge of the FAR, VAAR, and other applicable federal acquisition regulations and policies.\nDemonstrated ability to support acquisitions regardless of acquisition type or dollar value.\nStrong experience developing, reviewing, and advising on acquisition strategies, solicitations, procurement packages, evaluation criteria, contract modifications, and contract administration documentation.\nAbility to independently research and interpret federal acquisition policy, regulations, directives, and guidance.\nStrong leadership, supervisory, communication, writing, organizational, and time-management skills.\nAbility to manage multiple priorities, personnel issues, and complex acquisition actions simultaneously.\nSpecialized Acquisition Experience\nDepending on assigned responsibilities, candidates may also be required to possess specialized experience in one or more of the following areas.\nConstruction and Architect-Engineering\nCandidates supporting construction and Architect-Engineering acquisitions should possess:\nAt least three years of experience developing A-E solicitations and administering A-E contracts and modifications.\nAt least three years of experience developing construction solicitations and administering construction contracts and modifications.\nWorking knowledge of FAR Parts 14, 15, 36, and 43.\nExperience preparing construction and A-E solicitation packages in accordance with FAR, VAAR, and agency policies and procedures.\nAbility to apply federal acquisition laws, regulations, and sound contracting practices to construction and A-E procurements.\nComplex Services and Healthcare Contracting\nCandidates supporting complex service or healthcare acquisitions should possess:\nAt least five years of experience developing complex service solicitations and administering complex service contracts and modifications.\nIn-depth knowledge of FAR Parts 13 and 15.\nFamiliarity with medical terminology and healthcare contracting requirements.\nExperience analyzing cost elements associated with healthcare services, supplies, equipment, and other related resources.\nExperience supporting complex service acquisitions from requirements development through administration.\nLeasing and Specialized Contracting\nCandidates supporting leasing or specialized acquisitions should possess:\nAt least two years of experience developing and administering real property or lease-related solicitations, contracts, and modifications.\nFamiliarity with real property leasing, utility contracts, space-sharing agreements, selling or sharing agreements, revocable licenses, interagency agreements, and hotel services.\nWorking knowledge of applicable FAR, VAAR, GSAM, GSAR, public laws, and agency policies.\nEducation Requirements\nCandidates should possess:\nA bachelor's degree in any field; or\nAt least 24 semester hours in accounting, business, finance, law, contracts, purchasing, economics, industrial management, marketing, quantitative methods, organization and management, or a combination of these disciplines.\nQualifying federal contracting experience may be considered toward applicable education requirements in accordance with contract requirements. Seven years of qualifying federal contracting experience may be considered in lieu of formal education where permitted.\nPreferred Certifications\nThe following certifications or equivalent acquisition training are preferred but not required:\nFAC-C Level I, II, or III\nFAC-C Professional\nDAWIA Level III Contracting\nEquivalent commercial acquisition or contracting coursework\nPreferred Qualifications\nPrevious experience supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs.\nExperience supporting a VA Network Contracting Office.\nDemonstrated success managing acquisition teams in a high-volume federal contracting environment.\nExperience supporting healthcare, professional services, construction, Architect-Engineering, leasing, utilities, or other complex acquisitions.\nExperience with workforce planning, workload allocation, acquisition quality assurance, and staff development.\nExperience advising warranted Contracting Officers and senior government stakeholders on complex acquisition matters.\nBenefits\n Employer-provided paid Medical / Dental / Vision insurance.\n Employer matching 401K plan.\n PTO\n 11 Federal Holidays\n Additionally voluntary benefits to include Short / Long Term Disability, Term Life, and AD&D Insurance.","description_format":"text","description_chars":10946,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["401k plan","Vision insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Management Consulting"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-06T21:06:22Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":19,"expected_fill_days":63,"reasons":["conf:0","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-26T05:57:25Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/usfederalsolutions-management-contract-specialist","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/usfederalsolutions-management-contract-specialist.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-26T17:15:54Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":23125,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-27T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":688103},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=688103"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fusfederalsolutions-management-contract-specialist"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fusfederalsolutions-management-contract-specialist"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fusfederalsolutions-management-contract-specialist"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/usfederalsolutions-management-contract-specialist\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fusfederalsolutions-management-contract-specialist"}]}