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Purchasing Agent
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 43 days ago
About the Role
This position serves as a Purchasing Agent for the Logistics Service and supported catchment area. Primarily performs Purchasing Agent work to acquire supplies, services, and construction by purchase, rental, or lease through (a) delivery orders and/or (b) small purchases. This position becomes a purchase card holder who fulfills acquisition requests under the federal micro purchase threshold, ensuring purchases are procured in accordance with Federal and VA regulations, policy and procedure.
What You'll Do
- →Major Duties include but are not limited to: Purchasing Support: Conducts purchasing for a VA Medical Center, and supported catchment area, under the mirco purchase threshold.
- →Purchases various equipment, supplies, and services through the use of government purchase card micro purchases.
- →Reviews and edits purchase requests to ensure the item or service is adequately described based on the requester's need.
- →Ensures all information has been provided and the request is consistent with legal requirements.
- →Obtains necessary product information, price information and procedures for written and verbal purchase orders.
- →Provides general guidance to potential vendors on requirements and information needed to be entered into a local vendor file.
- →Reviews Fund Control Points and verifies the running balances to ensure procurement obligations are compete and approved prior to placing orders.
- →Provides administration and oversight on orders and services.
- →Monitor vendor performance through personal contact, reviews progress reports, and discuss reasons for delays, failures, or price changes.
- →Procurement Support Procures supplies and services to meet the purchase, rental, or lease needs of the organization.
- →Examines incoming requests for completeness including presence of purchase request number, accounting codes, item description estimated cost, and quantity.
- →Ensures all critical information is included in the solicitation package and develops unique selection criteria for each purchase.
- →Conducts open market research for purchases of routine equipment, supplies and services.
- →Prepare and issue contract modifications for changes in delivery schedule and sends formal correspondence to a variety of customers such as inventory management specialists, or other service line contacts, and contracting officers as appropriate for the purposes of auditing documents, processing receiving reports, and payments.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓There is no educational substitution at this grade level.
Personality Fit
This role is commonly a great fit for these MBTI types:
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