Procurement Technician with 10+ Years Experience

BON AGOHA

Buyer/Purchasing Specialist/Procurement Agent

Email: ******@*****.***

Phone: 240-***-****

As experienced Purchasing Specialist/Buyer, I play critical role in ensuring that purchases are made with best lowest cost price while maintaining quality and reliability. I am responsible for studying all available market trends, interviewing vendors, and recommending sources of supplies. My expertise is key in soliciting and analyzing quotations to meet requirements of authorized purchase requisitions.

SKILLS:

Over 10 Years of experience of cradle-to-grave Purchasing & Procurement

Microsoft Office Applications, PeopleSoft, Yardi, Epicor. ComprizonSuit, eVA.

Purchase Request Sourcing/Purchase Order Processing

Order Reviews/Status/Order Expediting

Contract Bidding/Negotiations

Vendor Relations/Selection

Statement of Work (SOW)

RFP/RFB/RFQ Processing

FAR & DFAR Procedures

Pricing/Price Analyses

EXPERIENCE:

National Institutes of Health/Axle Informatics Inc. Procurement Technician 05/2024 – 05/2025

National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland.

NIH is the Nation’s Major Institute for all Medical research and discoveries.

Purchasing Technician.

●● Performed market research analysis to determine suppliers/services.

●● Worked with different staff groups to project their needs to ensure purchases.

●● Prepared, reformatted, and edited statements of work (SOW) from multiple project sources.

●● Prepared and verified contracts documents for complete contract package.

●● Prepared purchase requests for variety of equipment, supplies, and services.

Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Behavioral Health 06/2023 - 05/2024

Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute, Falls Church, Virginia.

Purchasing Officer 1

●● Completed all cradle-to-grave of purchasing and procurement process.

●● Ensured items were procured from both mandatory and competitive sources of supply.

●● Utilized eVA, Micro SWAM & SPCC procurement practices to ensure agency compliance.

●● Used State Charge Card to make purchases in accordance with DOA established procedures.

Airboss Defense Group, Jessup, Maryland 04/2021 – 06/2023

Buyer - ADG is a Defense Manufacturer of protective and survivability solutions to personnel operating in high-risk environments around the World.

ADG Buyer

●● With Epicor App system, I worked with Suppliers, Production, Inventory,

and Accounting to ensure availability of materials to meet production schedules

●● Coordinated with inventory/warehouse to accurately ship materials in line with production.

●● Performed purchasing functions in line with Maintenance, Repairs and Operations

(MRO) Purchase Orders as required.

U.S. Department of Commerce NW, Washington. DC. 06/2019 – 01/2020 Procurement Specialist, (Contractor) ES-A - Erimax, Inc. New Carrollton Maryland

Using ComprizonSuite Contract and procurement application in keeping with Federal Acquisition (FAR)

Drafted and reviewed contractual agreements of vendors and suppliers of products or services for the agency, also evaluated bids, prepared contracts, and negotiated terms up to about $700K amounts:

●● Developed Acquisition plans such as Source Selections.

●● Developed Procurement justifications like Statements of Work, Task Order Statements.

●● Responded to RFQs/RFPs to determine Contractors’ ability to meet order requirements.

●● Prepared Purchase Orders and Price Analysis in line with FAR regulations.

ManTech International Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 08/2018 – 06/2019

ManTech International specializes in Cybersecurity, Software and Systems development, Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Systems engineering, Supply Chain management and Logistics, amongst others.

Buyer, (Contractor) Sparks Group, Fairfax, Virginia. Supporting ManTech Advance Systems Intl.

Using Peoples Soft Procurement Application in line with FAR/DFAR regulations, and procurement procedures in planning, selecting, and buying of items and services encompassing market research, vendors’ analysis, evaluations, purchase orders, and creating reports for the management team.

●● Prepared and processed RFQs and RFPs in accordance with organizational set rules and policies

●● Obtained pricing from Vendors & other sources for proposal support to aid contract bidding.

●● Prepared Purchase Orders and Price Analysis in accordance with FAR/DFAR regulations.

●● Performed Complete file documentation, maintained and updated Contractors’ files for both

Internal and External Audits.

Housing Opportunity Commission/Green Key, Kensington, Maryland 03/2017 – 09/2017

HOC provides people with low and moderate incomes with chances and opportunity of safe and affordable housing in high-quality areas of Montgomery County of Maryland.

Buyer – Temporary assignment working with Yardi ERP system of purchasing and procurement.

Washington International Contractors, Inc., Rockville, MD 02/2014 – 03/2017 Washington International Contractors, Inc. is a dynamic and diversified Construction Management and Consulting firm of integrated projects.

Purchasing/Contract Specialist

EDUCATION:

AA Degree, Purchasing and Supply, Federal Polytechnic, Nigeria

AA Degree, Cardiovascular Technology, Sanford Brown Inst. Maryland.

Microsoft Office Applications, Montgomery College, Maryland

Introduction to GenAI, Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland

CLEARANCE: U.S. Citizen with Public Trust Suitability.

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