Procurement and contracting administrator · What it does
Three tasks it takes off your hands
- Prepare purchase orders and review requisitions for goods and services.
- Write and review product specifications for goods or services.
- Analyse price proposals and financial reports to determine reasonable prices.
Where these come from
The tasks of “Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products” (O*NET 13-1023.00), as O*NET lists them:
- Prepare purchase orders, solicit bid proposals, and review requisitions for goods and services.
- Write and review product specifications, maintaining a working technical knowledge of the goods or services to be purchased.
- Analyze price proposals, financial reports, and other data and information to determine reasonable prices.
