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DCAS's mission is to make city government work for all New Yorkers. From managing New York City's most iconic courthouses and municipal buildings, to purchasing over $1 billion annually in goods and services for more than 80 City agencies. What we do ensures that all agencies can deliver on their mission. Our reach touches every facet of City government and is instrumental to the successful day-to-day operations of the City of New York. Our commitment to equity, effectiveness, and sustainability guides our work providing City agencies with the critical resources and support needed to succeed, including:
- Recruiting, hiring, and training City employees.
- Managing 56 public buildings.
- Acquiring, selling, and leasing City property.
- Purchasing over $1 billion in goods and services for City agencies.
- Overseeing the greenest municipal vehicle fleet in the country.
- Leading the City's efforts to reduce carbon emissions from government operations.
When you work at DCAS, you're not just working for one agency, but in service to all of them. It's an opportunity to provide meaningful support, quality customer service, and help protect the future of New York City for generations to come. Visit our website at NYC.GOV/DCAS to learn more about the work we do.
The Office of Citywide Procurement (OCP) is the centralized procurement line of service with various external and internal functions, including ensuring that procurement processes comply with all applicable rules and mandates. In support of all City agencies, OCP is responsible for citywide contract management, quality assurance, and supply chain management. This work helps maintain the public trust and ensures that all products and services support the City's overarching environmental and economic justice goals.
The Procurement Analyst will be responsible for the following:
- Develop and conduct complex procurements for goods and services, utilizing various procurement methods, such as competitive sealed bids, competitive sealed proposals/request for proposals, sole source, and negotiated acquisition procurement methods.
- Conduct market research and analyses of the agency's needs to determine procurement requirements and specifications.
- Conduct vendor outreach and pre-bid meetings to clarify potential offerings and clarify client agency requirements.
- Lead proposal evaluation committees and select proposed contract awardees.
- Conduct cost/price analyses and negotiate with vendors to obtain the most advantageous contract terms and pricing for the agency.
- Draft contracts and supporting documents and obtain oversight approvals; respond to all related inquiries.
- Ensure contract proposals meet the agency's requirements and all relevant federal/state/city guidelines.
- Develop procedures for administration of contract and procurement activities, such as processing of bids and contracts, monitoring vendor performance, and effecting contract modifications.
- Administer contracts to ensure vendor performance and compliance with contract terms to obtain the best possible service levels for the agency.
- Monitor post award contract management and ongoing vendor preparedness.
- Establishes and maintains supervisory controls to ensure the unit's work is processed in a consistent and timely manner.
- Evaluates contract performance reports and recommendations submitted by subordinates, as well as agency audits and fiscal documents to ensure contract compliance.
- Prepares summary reports and recommendations to continue funding, provide additional funding of defund contracted programs and services.
- Prepare and conduct presentations related to solicitations, procurement policies, and related issues and initiatives, ensuring effective communication between client agencies, vendors, and OCP.
- Consult with and advise the Agency Chief Contracting Officer (ACCO) and other supervisors on buying policies.
- Identify potential cost reduction or cost avoidance opportunities.
- Participate in ongoing continuous process improvement programs; identify potential ways to increase efficiency and effectiveness of OCP procurement functions.
- Obtains corrective action where contractor has failed to provide contracted goods or services or is deficient in honoring terms of contractual agreement.
- Makes recommendation for non-award or cancellation of contract based on contractor's non-responsibility, and poor or non-performance.
- Generate contract modifications as necessary.
- Perform other related duties.
To Apply:
Only permanent Procurement Analyst employees and those that are reachable on the open-competitive list (Procurement Analyst, Exam No. 1194) are eligible to apply.
Please go to www.nyc.gov/careers and search for Job ID #. 785335
For current City employees please go to www.nyc.gov/ess and log into Employee Self Service.
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PROCUREMENT ANALYST - 12158

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and six months of satisfactory full-time professional experience in procurement of goods, services, construction or construction-related services, or professional, technical or administrative experience in contract negotiation/management; or
2. An associate degree or completion of 60 semester credits from an accredited college, and 18 months of satisfactory, full-time professional experience as described in "1" above; or
3. A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and two and one-half years of satisfactory full time professional experience as described in "1" above; or
4. A combination of education and/or experience equivalent to "1", "2", or "3" above. College education may be substituted for professional experience under "2" or "3" above at the rate of 30 semester credits from an accredited college for 6 months of experience. However, all candidates must have at least a four year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and 6 months of the experience described in "1" above.
SPECIAL NOTES:
To be eligible for placement in Assignment Level II, individuals must have, after meeting the minimum requirements, either one year served at Assignment Level I or one additional year of the experience described in "1" above.
To be eligible for placement in Assignment Level III, individuals must have, after meeting the minimum requirements, either one year served at Assignment Level II or two additional years of the experience described in "1" above, at least one year of which must have been supervisory, or spent performing professional procurement duties equivalent to those performed at Assignment Level III.

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