Overview
This role involves providing contract review, drafting, negotiation, and administration support for federal government contracting activities. The position focuses on developing, reviewing, negotiating, and executing Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs), Teaming Agreements (TAs), and Subcontract Agreements (SubKs) supporting federal business development and the contract portfolio.
This is a hands-on consulting engagement for an experienced government contracts professional who can manage agreements independently—from initial request through negotiation and execution—while identifying contractual, financial, compliance, and performance risks.
Responsibilities
Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs)
- Draft, review, revise, and negotiate mutual and unilateral NDAs.
- Evaluate confidentiality definitions, permitted disclosures, intellectual property provisions, residuals, term, survival, remedies, and governing law.
- Identify non-standard or unfavorable provisions and recommend appropriate revisions.
- Maintain efficient turnaround for routine agreements supporting active capture and teaming efforts.
Teaming Agreements (TAs)
- Draft, review, revise, and negotiate federal government contracting Teaming Agreements.
- Review provisions related to:
- Prime/subcontractor relationships
- Workshare and scope allocation
- Exclusivity and non-compete restrictions
- Proposal responsibilities
- Pricing and cost information
- Intellectual property and proprietary information
- Termination rights
- Post-award subcontract negotiations
- Ensure proposed agreements appropriately protect workshare and business interests.
- Coordinate agreement language with business development, capture, proposal, and executive leadership.
Subcontract Agreements (SubKs)
- Draft, review, revise, and negotiate subcontract agreements as both a prime contractor and subcontractor.
- Review subcontract terms for consistency with the prime contract and negotiated teaming arrangements.
- Evaluate FAR/DFARS flow-down requirements and determine applicability.
- Review clauses addressing:
- Scope and deliverables
- Period of performance
- Pricing and payment
- Invoicing
- Funding and limitation of funds
- Changes
- Personnel and key personnel
- Workshare
- Intellectual property and data rights
- Cybersecurity and information protection
- Insurance
- Indemnification
- Termination
- Disputes
- Compliance requirements
- Identify contractual risks and clearly communicate recommended changes to management.
- Support subcontract modifications and related contractual actions as required.
Additional responsibilities
- Maintain organized records of agreements, modifications, negotiations, and executed documents.
- Track agreement status and outstanding contractual actions.
- Coordinate with executives, program managers, finance, business development, and outside counsel when appropriate.
- Support development and maintenance of contract templates, clause libraries, negotiation positions, and internal contracting procedures.
- Escalate material legal, financial, compliance, or performance risks to executive leadership or legal counsel.
- Help establish efficient contract review processes appropriate for a growing federal contractor.
Requirements
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of contracts or subcontract management experience, preferably within the federal government contracting industry.
- Demonstrated experience independently reviewing and negotiating NDAs, Teaming Agreements, and Subcontract Agreements.
- Strong working knowledge of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR).
- Experience reviewing and applying DFARS and prime-contract flow-down clauses.
- Understanding of federal subcontracting requirements and prime/subcontractor relationships.
- Experience supporting federal competitive procurements and proposal teaming arrangements.
- Strong contract drafting, redlining, negotiation, and risk-analysis skills.
- Ability to distinguish between routine business terms and issues requiring executive or legal review.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple agreements simultaneously.
- Ability to work independently with limited supervision.
Preferred Qualifications
- 8+ years of federal government contracts/subcontracts experience.
- Experience supporting small and mid-sized federal contractors.
- Experience with DoD and civilian agency contracts.
- Familiarity with FFP, T&M, Labor Hour, and Cost-Reimbursement contract structures.
- Experience with IDIQs, task orders, GWACs, BPAs, and GSA Schedule contracting.
- Familiarity with SBA small-business subcontracting and socioeconomic program requirements.
- Experience with Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI), limitation on subcontracting, workshare, and affiliation considerations.
- NCMA certification such as CPCM, CFCM, or CCCM is preferred but not required.
Engagement Expectations
- The consultant should be capable of handling routine contractual matters independently and efficiently, while escalating material contractual or legal risks when appropriate.
- Typical assignments range from straightforward NDA and Teaming Agreement reviews to more complex subcontract negotiations involving FAR/DFARS flow-downs, workshare requirements, intellectual property, cybersecurity, and other federal contracting requirements.
- The position is expected to operate on an as-needed hourly consulting basis, with workload fluctuating based on proposal activity, teaming arrangements, contract awards, and subcontracting requirements.