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12/02/2024 to 01/21/2025
$143,736 - $191,900 per year
GS 15
6 vacancies in the following location:
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Yes—as determined by the agency policy.
Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position.
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Permanent
Full-time
Competitive
15
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No
25-12620262M-PCN-1102-15
821277700
Current federal employees of this agency.
Federal employees who meet the definition of a "surplus" or "displaced" employee.
Open to IRS Career/Career-Conditional, Treasury/IRS CTAP, & IRS RPP employees
WHAT IS THE OFFICE OF THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICERDIVISION?
A description of the business units can be found at: https://www.jobs.irs.gov/about/who/business-divisions
Vacancies will be filled in the following specialty areas: Procurement
The following are the duties of this position at the full working level.
Advises and supports OCPO Senior Managers and Executives in developing and directing
controls for IRS procurement and contract programs. Consults with and furnishes authoritative
advice and guidance to staff. The employee is responsible for devising sophisticated pricing
arrangements and for managing all contractual aspects of the services and systems acquisition
process. Primary point of contact and authority for OCPO Senior Managers and Executives on
acquisition approaches and alternatives, market analysis and outcomes the drive the acquisition
approaches for major procurement of supplies, services (including information technology,
architectural and engineering, or research and development) using broad authority and oversight
within warrant level to legally bind and obligate agency funding through contract issue cure
notices and terminate contracts for convenience or default.
Takes a leadership role in coordinating and representing the Office of the Chief Procurement
Officer on complicated and controversial acquisition issues with all impacted parties. The
employee must be prepared to defend the acquisition strategy, competition approach, or award
summary or other positions due to challenges from a variety of entities such as congressional
staff members, state government, or other federal government authorities such as Government
Accountability Office. Serves as a leader for the short- and long-range planning, development,
coordination, and implementation of very broad and complex procurements that impact support
services and information technology for Internal Revenue business units. Knowledge of related
disciplines and functions involved in the acquisition process, such as design or system
engineering, integrated logistics support, financial management, and their interrelationships
with contracting. Advises and supports the OCPO Senior Managers and Executives, Program
Managers, and COR's in developing and directing controls for IRS procurement and contract
programs. Consults with and furnishes authoritative advice and guidance to staff. Consults with
and furnishes authoritative advice and guidance.
Develops and maintains innovate contractual language, terms, and conditions. Serves as a program
contractual authority and advisor on the acceptability and applicability of contractual matters related to
procurement actions. Interprets and applies Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), Department of Treasury
Acquisition Regulations (DTAR), and Internal Revenue Service Acquisition Procedures (IRSAP) to every
acquisition regardless of type of procurement and dollar threshold. Responsible for reviewing acquisitions
strategies recommended by program officials to ensure accuracy, quality, adherence to FAR, DTAR, and
IRSAP prior to approving streamlined and innovative acquisition strategies that bring the greatest value to
the IRS mission.
Serves as the subject matter expert for other contracting professionals in the Office of Procurement
Operations by utilizing experience, knowledge, and training to guide, coach, and mentor contracting
professionals through establishing acquisition strategies, navigating challenging procurements, responding to
protests, responding to Freedom of Information Act requests, responding to congressional
inquiries, drafting negation strategies, drafting award decisions, analyzing the impact of new legislation,
and procurement policies on procurement actions.
Approves acquisition strategies, evaluation criteria, appoints contracting officer technical representatives,
award decisions, negotiation strategies.
Participates and collaborates with IRS senior executives, program managers, attorneys, small business
specialists, procurement policy, and senior procurement executives on contract review board prior to
approving acquisition strategy.
STANDARD POSITION DESCRIPTIONS (SPD):
PD25094
Visit the IRS SPD Library to access the position descriptions.
Federal experience is not required. The experience may have been gained in the public sector, private sector or Volunteer Service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-timework is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week, on your resume.
You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement:
BASIC REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADE 13 & ABOVE: You must have completed all mandatory training prescribed by the head of the agency for progression to GS-13 or higher-level contracting positions, including at least 4-years' experience in contracting or related positions. At least 1 year of that experience must have been specialized experience at or equivalent to work at the next lower level of the position, and must have provided the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the work of the position.
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A 4-year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree, that included or was supplemented by at least 24 semester hours in any combination of the following fields: accounting, business, finance, law, contracts, purchasing, economics, industrial management, marketing, quantitative methods, or organization and management.
Exceptions: Employees in GS-1102 positions will be considered to have met the standard for positions they occupy on January 1, 2000. This also applies to positions at the same grade in the same agency or other agencies if the specialized experience requirements are met. However, they will have to meet the basic requirements and specialized experience requirements in order to qualify for promotion to a higher grade, unless granted a waiver.
Waiver: When filling a specific vacant position, the senior procurement executive of the selecting agency, at his or her discretion, may waive any or all of the requirements above if the senior procurement executive certifies that the applicant possesses significant potential for advancement to levels of greater responsibility and authority, based on demonstrated analytical and decision-making capabilities, job performance, and qualifying experience. With respect to each waiver granted, the senior procurement executive must document for the record the basis of the waiver. If an individual is placed in a position in an agency on the basis of a waiver, the agency may later reassign that individual to another position at the same grade within that agency without additional waiver action.
In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below:
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE GS-15 LEVEL: To be minimally qualified for the position you must have one (1) year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-14 level. Specialized experience is defined as experience demonstrating mastery the principles and practices of acquisition planning, contract formation, partnering with government and industry, administration, and resolution of disputes and claims, and providing procurement advice and counsel to agency program managers and executives; Responsible for overseeing the development and execution of the contracting portion of project management plans; Ensuring the award and administration of contracts complies with applicable contracting laws, directives, and policies; Managing the procurement of all types of equipment, supplies and/or services using multiple acquisition strategies including competition or contracting by negotiations, settlement of terminations for convenience and default, claims for delay and disruption, and resolution of contractor performance issues. Experience applying communicative techniques to interact with internal and external customers effectively and diplomatically.
COMBINATION OF EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION: You may qualify by a combination of experience and education. Options for qualifying based on a combination will be identified in the online questions.
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MEET TIME IN GRADE (TIG) REQUIREMENT: You must meet applicable TIG requirements to be considered eligible. To meet TIG for positions above the GS-05 grade level, you must have served at least one year (52 weeks) at the next lower grade (or equivalent) in the normal line of progression for the position you are applying to. Advancement to positions up to GS-05 is permitted if the position to be filled is no more than two grades above the lowest grade held within the preceding 52 weeks.
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TIME AFTER COMPETITIVE APPOINTMENT: By the closing date (or if this is an open continuous announcement, by the cut-off date) specified in this job announcement, current civilian employees must have completed at least 90 days of federal civilian service since their latest non-temporary appointment from a competitive referral certificate, known as time after competitive appointment. For this requirement, a competitive appointment is one where you applied to and were appointed from an announcement open to "All US Citizens".
For more information on qualifications please refer to OPM's Qualifications Standards.
A copy of your transcripts or equivalent documentation is required for positions with an education requirement, or if you are qualifying based on education or a combination of education and experience. An official transcript will be required if you are selected. If the position has specific education requirements and you currently hold, or have previously held, a position in the same job series with the IRS, there is no need to submit a transcript or equivalent at this time. Applicants are encouraged, but are not required, to submit an SF-50 documenting experience in a specific series. A college or university degree generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For a list of schools which meet these criteria, please refer to Department of Education Accreditation page.
FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. Click here (Section 3, Explanation of Terms) or here for Foreign Education Credentialing instructions.
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
Your application includes your resume, responses to the online questions, and required supporting documents. Please be sure that your resume includes detailed information to support your qualifications for this position; failure to provide sufficient evidence in your resume may result in a "not qualified" determination. Applicants who disqualify themselves will not be evaluated further.
Rating: Your application will be evaluated in accordance with the Service's Merit Promotion Plan. You will be assessed on the following competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics):
The following documents are required and must be provided with your application. All application materials, including transcripts, must be in English.
The following instructions outline our application process. You must complete this application process and submit any required documents by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on 09/15/2025 and/or cut-off dates in this announcement. We are available to assist you during business hours (normally 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. ET, Monday - Friday). If applying online poses a hardship, please contact us by noon ET on 09/15/2025.
To preview the Application Questionnaire, please click the following link: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12620262
Treasury believes in a working environment that supports inclusion; to review reasonable accommodation policies and procedures please visit https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/disability-employment/reasonable-accommodations/. We provide reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities on a case-by-case basis; contact us if you require this for any part of the application and hiring process.
Once your application package and online questionnaire is received you will receive an acknowledgement email. You are responsible for checking status updates and notifications in USAJOBS. Hard copy notifications will not be sent to you. You may check the status of your application for this position at any time by logging onto the USAJOBS "My Account" tab and clicking on "Application Status." For a more detailed update of your application status, you may click on "more information." Please notify us if your contact information changes after the closing date of the announcement. If your email mailbox is full or blocked (SPAM) you may not receive important communication that could affect your consideration for this position.
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