Purchasing Agent

The Building People Career Center; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

The Building People, LLC has a full-time opening for a Purchasing Agent. The role supports customer needs by placing government orders against established contracts, performing pre-award and post-award actions, and managing procurements under the SAT.

Assignments include reporting to one of several locations such as Atlanta, Birmingham, Charlotte, Tampa, or Nashville, with work governed by FAR and related regulations.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with solicitation or purchasing methods including BPAs and purchase orders.
• Knowledge of regulatory purchasing procedures and required sources.
• Ability to evaluate price reasonableness using references and history.
• Proficiency with basic arithmetic for price comparisons.
• Experience with government procurement software and FAR-based processes.

Responsibilities

• Place government orders against established contracts and calls against BPAs, IDIQs, or other schedules.
• Perform pre-award and post-award contracting actions as required.
• Ensure procurement actions comply with SAT, regulations, and agency policy.
• Utilize various software tools to exchange information and manage procurements.

Skills

Solicitation methods

Contracting knowledge

Regulatory compliance

Price evaluation

Procurement software

Job description

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 - NextGeneration (FPDS-NG), Electronic Contract File Viewer (ECF), Federal BusinessOpportunities (FBO), E-buy, Electronic Subcontracting Reporting System (eSRS)Procurement Processing System (EASi) and other software programs.