Acquisition Specialist
Full Time • Grand Forks, ND
Job Summary:
The Acquisition Specialist supports the planning, construction, and sustainment of facilities. This role focuses on coordinating acquisition processes, including procurement documentation, market research, and cost estimation, in collaboration with servicing agencies and financial management teams. The Corridor Specialist also supports maintenance and repair (M&R) planning and data management, ensuring compliance with federal regulations and systems of record.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage procurement timelines and milestones for facility projects.
- Develop acquisition documentation, including Statements of Work, Statements of Objectives, and performance Work Statements, in compliance with federal regulations.
- Conduct market research and prepare Analysis of Alternatives with a minimum of three vendors.
- Support preparation of Independent Government Cost Estimates and lifecycle cost analyses, including comparative analysis of market data and historical prices.
- Develop templates and document processes for cost estimation, serving as a subject matter expert and providing training and quality assurance measures.
- Conduct trending and analysis on historical data and upcoming requirements to support budget and execution planning for M&R activities.
- Provide recommended budgets, plans, and execution strategies to facility and infrastructure managers.
- Manage data associated with the facility MRO program, including deficiencies, operational contracts, maintenance contracts, and building systems in designated systems of record.
- Coordinate with financial management teams and project analysts to maintain accurate data.
- Support out-year budget planning and current-year budget execution for M&R and operational contract actions.
- Assist in spend plan analysis as needed.
- Serve as a Functional Lead for acquisition-related tasks, coordinating with project managers and stakeholders to ensure seamless project execution.
- Provide technical expertise and recommendations to support decision-making and risk management.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree required (may be offset by additional experience with client approval).
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in acquisition, procurement, or contract management, preferably in government or construction-related projects.
- Experience with federal servicing agencies preferred.
- Acquisition-related certifications (e.g., DAWIA, FAC-C) desirable.
- Expertise in federal acquisition processes and procurement documentation.
- Proficiency in data management and financial systems (e.g., real property, document, and financial platforms).
- Strong analytical skills for market research, cost estimation, and budget planning.
- Excellent communication and coordination skills to interface with clients and agencies.
- Must pass a background investigation to access client-furnished equipment (e.g., workstation, laptop).
- May require site visits, necessitating Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) per OSHA standards (provided by the contractor unless specialized PPE is supplied by the client).
- Leadership in coordinating acquisition efforts and supporting project objectives.
- Professional conduct and ability to collaborate with diverse stakeholders.
About GBTI
GBTI Solutions, Inc.(GBTI) is revolutionizing how IT works, leveraging innovative and cutting edge technology to deliver time efficient, high-quality, and cost- effective business solutions to government, commercial, and non-profit clients across three continents. Since our founding in 2005, we have delivered customized solutions designed to meet each client's needs and requirements. Our innovative products, GEMS and ION each offer new insight on Human Resources and Physical Assets. GBTI works to truly understand these needs so that we can effectively solve their technical and business challenges while providing added value through a comprehensive solution approach. We deliver our solutions and products through four core practices centered upon Software Development, Data Management, Intelligent Transformation, and Research & Development (R&D): Currently, the GBTI Innovation Lab is working with leading edge technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Rapid Acquisition and Blockchain for research and development.
Mission Statement
GBTI is revolutionizing how IT works, leveraging innovative and cutting edge technology to deliver time efficient, high- quality, and cost-effective business solutions.
To achieve this mission, GBTI has adopted the following core values:
Mission Statement
GBTI is revolutionizing how IT works, leveraging innovative and cutting edge technology to deliver time efficient, high- quality, and cost-effective business solutions.
To achieve this mission, GBTI has adopted the following core values:
- Quality – Everything we do must meet high and measurable quality standards and applicable requirements.
- Responsiveness – We must listen to our clients and respond quickly to their specific and changing needs. We must respond to problems very quickly and provide timely solutions.
- Care – We must care about our clients. We must care about our people. We must care about each other. We must care about the company that carries our people's dreams.
- Growth – We must help our clients, our people and our company to continually grow in value and capability.
- Fun – We must create a working environment such that clients have fun to work with us and our people have fun to work with each other.
- Improvement – We must monitor, measure, analyze, and evaluation our operations and performance continuously to achieve continual improvement of our operations and performance
As any company, GBTI often faces challenging situations and must make critical decisions. This set of core values are our guiding principles in making tough choices. This set of core values are also the foundation for our business strategy, our recruitment process, our solution methods, our management approaches, and our relationships with our clients and with our people.
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