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64PX Contracting Officer

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Overview

Contracting Officers plan, evaluate, award, and negotiate contracts that supply command units with needed equipment and other resources. They manage contracts for commodities, services, and construction throughout the contracting process.

Core Skills

  • Acquisition planning and solicitation development
  • Contract cost and price analysis
  • Offer evaluation and source selection
  • Contract award and administration

Civilian Career Paths

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Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products

Military acquisition planning, solicitation, price analysis, offer evaluation, source selection, contract award, and administration directly support civilian purchasing work.

How to prepare: Build a procurement work sample using public or fictional data that compares supplier bids, explains the selection, and outlines contract monitoring. Education requirements vary by employer; a bachelor's degree is typical, but some employers hire high-school graduates.

What the civilian work involves
  • Prepare purchase orders, solicit bid proposals, and review requisitions for goods and services.
  • Formulate policies and procedures for bid proposals and procurement of goods and services.
  • Purchase the highest quality merchandise at the lowest possible price and in correct amounts.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • SAP software

Cost Estimators

Military cost or price analysis and offer evaluation provide a foundation for comparing estimated costs and assessing the cost effectiveness of products or services.

How to prepare: Build a spreadsheet estimate for a product or service in your target industry using historical cost data, documenting assumptions and comparing the estimate with actual costs.

What the civilian work involves
  • Collect historical cost data to estimate costs for current or future products.
  • Assess cost effectiveness of products, projects or services, tracking actual costs relative to bids as the project develops.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (4 documents)
  1. DAFOCD, 30 Apr 26: CONTRACTING (64PX)

    [1] Specialty Summary section "CONTRACTING"; normalized cached text lines 10773-10796; family-level section (64P4, 64P3, 64P1)

    Supports: Acquisition planning and solicitation development, Contract cost and price analysis, Offer evaluation and source selection, Contract award and administration, Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products (O*NET 13-1023.00), Cost Estimators (O*NET 13-1051.00)

  2. O*NET: Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products (O*NET 13-1023.00)

  3. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Purchasing Managers, Buyers, and Purchasing Agents

    [3] What They Do; How to Become One; retrieved 23 September 2026

    Supports: Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products (O*NET 13-1023.00)

  4. O*NET: Cost Estimators

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Cost Estimators (O*NET 13-1051.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 64PX

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