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Purchasing Agent

The Building People
Atlanta, GA, US
Full-time

The Building People, LLC, has a position open for a full-time Purchasing Agent . This position would have to report to one of the following locations : Atlanta, GA, Birmingham, AL, Charlotte NC, Tampa, FL, or Nashville, TN.

The Purchasing Agent serves customer needs through the placement of Government orders against established contracts (i.e.

purchase orders and / or calls against BPAs or other FSS schedules, PBS regional / national IDIQs or other Government sources of supply.

Contractor will perform Pre-award and Post-award contracting actions. All procurement actions are at or under the Simplified Acquisition Threshold (SAT).

The contractor will be expected to use a variety of purchasing procedures to acquire supplies, services and construction.

All work is governed by the FAR and supplemented by additional regulations, legal precedents and agency policy and procedures

Required Experience & Skills

  • Knowledge of solicitation or purchasing methods such as oral solicitations, calls against BPAs, delivery orders or priced purchase orders to make noncompetitive open market purchases, purchases under established contracts or competitive open market purchases when specifications or statements of work are standardized, price and product characteristics are stable and repeat vendors are used.
  • Knowledge of frequently used and easily understood regulations such as those related to required sources, use of mandatory schedules or ordering and documentation procedures for routine purchases to ensure regulatory compliance throughout the purchasing process.
  • Knowledge of basic price evaluation techniques to assess price reasonableness using well established references such as price lists, Govt estimates and previous history.
  • Knowledge of basic arithmetic used in business to make comparisons of price
  • Knowledge of current software and media applications to facilitate the efficient exchange of information via email, spreadsheets, Webex, Federal Procurement Data System - Next Generation (FPDS-NG), Electronic Contract File Viewer (ECF), Federal Business Opportunities (FBO), E-buy, Electronic Subcontracting Reporting System (eSRS) Procurement Processing System (EASi) and other software programs.

Preferred Experience & Skills

Federal Government experience is a plus

Required Education

High School Diploma

At least two (2) years experience in contract purchasing or similar position.

Requires 20 Hours of Professional Acquisition Related Training (Annually)

30+ days ago
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