VA Office of Strategic Sourcing (OSS), Acquisition Management (AM) is in need of Information Technology (IT) technical support with strong acquisition management background to assist in project planning, budgetary, contract, and project management execution functions for the life cycle of IT projects. Requirements elaboration and elicitation is needed to assist the Project Manager and Procurement Coordinator in translating the Epics, Business Requirements Documents, Requirements Specification Documents and high-level Software Design Documents for projects into Performance Work Statements to ensure documents are complete and can generate adequate technical approaches from industry. This includes developing and/or reviewing Performance Work Statements to ensure the technical requirements are adequate and all elements of the life cycle of the project are covered The Contractor should have knowledge and understanding of relationships between Budget Tracking Tool (BTT) and the current acquisition system (Virtual Office of Acquisition (VOA)) and the impact they have on requirements in order to provide recommendations for acquisition packages. Additionally, the Contractor should have a general knowledge and understanding of the planned future acquisition system (Forecast of Contracting Opportunities Requirements Center of Excellence (FORCE)). OSS AM also requires support for analysis, requirements definition, planning, evaluation of alternative technical approaches, and associated costs for the development or enhancement of applications. Typical associated tasks include, but are not limited to, requirements analysis, cost/cost-performance trade-off analysis, feasibility analysis, and regulatory compliance support.
OSS AM is also in need of Contractor studies and analyses for its Business Operations group. Expertise in SharePoint and Excel is needed as well as intimate knowledge of various types of reporting tools and how they are to be utilized and manipulated for reporting Acquisition, financial data and various data metrics.
