Procurement Specialist Secret Clearance

Lillia Gill-Benjamin

PROCUREMENT SPECIALIST

Beltsville, MD 240-***-**** ********@*****.***

Profile

Secret Clearance

Objective

A technical professional with solid practical knowledge and expertise in Contracting, Administrative and Federal Procurement processes and procedures. Competent with PRISM the Procurement Information System for Management (PRISM). Purchasing Online Tracking System (POTS), Microsoft Office, and Teams. Working knowledge of the FAR part 35, GSA Schedule 70, and Purchase orders and Closeouts. Experience

Daybreak LLC. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. -Arlington, VA

Contractor-Procurement Specialist

June 2022-July 31, 2025

Support the Contracting Officer (CO) and the Contracting Officer Representative (COR) by collaborating closely with the Program Office to process the following:

• Exercising award options.

• Processing contract ratifications and de-obligations.

• Processing funding realignments inclusive of SOW revision, funding ceiling and reconstruction of CLIN line items.

• Processing incremental funding modifications inclusive of Inter Agency Agreement (IAA).

• Amend and process purchase request.

• Processing close out (inclusive of reconciliation) and memo completion for approval.

• Obtain Lines of Accounting (LOA’s) and Standard Occupational Classification Codes (SOCC) by collaborating with the Finance Department.

• Other related duties as assigned.

Paragon Tech. NIH Office of Acquisition and Logistics Management, Division of Financial Advisory Services -Bethesda, MD

Contractor-Sr. Analysis

March 2016-September 2021

Support the Acquisition Officer by working closely with the Division Director, Purchasing Officer and Auditors on the following:

• Conduct market research.

• Develop acquisition strategies for office equipment and supplies.

• Ensure all final indirect rates are received from the Financial Analysis and Oversight Branch.

• Request and Follow-Up on External Audit Reports.

• Review and analyze audit reports, indirect rate agreements, final vouchers, and other applicable documents.

• Perform contract closeout as prescribed in the Federal Acquisition.

• Prepared closed contract files for file disposition activities, including file room box labeling, maintenance, and transfer of files to offsite warehouses in accordance with guidance to be provided by the CO.

• Issue monthly progress reports providing the status of the instruments assigned for closeout.

• Upload all documents and closeout contract in POTS after approval by the Purchasing Officer.

• Support the Purchasing Officer with Acquisition pre-award support this includes, SOWs

& SOOs, Acquisition Strategy Support, Cost Estimates and Market Research and Market Surveys.

• Prepared documents for lateral and Bilateral signatures.

• Point of contact with vendor liaison.

• Perform other related duties as assigned.

KELLY SERVICES- NIH, OFFICE OF AIDS RESEARCH-Bethesda, Maryland Contractor-Program Coordinator

June 2010-March 2016

Served in an Executive-level administrative role supporting several senior level managers in the following:

• Arranged domestic and international travel for Sr. staff members for conferences and meetings in Concur.

• Prepare Visa for international travel.

• Reviewed outgoing correspondence for executive level’s approval and alerted writers to any conflict with the file.

• Maintained and updated communication systems among staff to facilitate the efficient flow of information relating to projects and program activities.

• Prepared various documents including funding requests memo, interagency grant agreements, memorandums of understanding, professional service orders, requests for sponsored travel, outside activities, official duty memoranda, training requests, individual/mass mailings, correspondence, reports and various forms.

• Other duties as assigned.

Education

Associate in business administration-Montgomery College, Takoma Park Skills & abilities

• PRISM, Concur, GovTrip, ITAS, DDRMS, SharePoint, POTS, NBS Systems, E-Flow, AIS, SEFT

• MS Windows: Word, Excel, Outlook, Access and PowerPoint

• Livelink, Filemaker Pro, iMAS Database, AMBIS,HRIS Abra System, WebEx, Zoom

• Teams

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