Contract Specialist

About This Role

This role involves managing the full lifecycle of government contracts, from pre-award capture to closeout, for a firm building technology-led companies in healthcare, cyber, and national security. The specialist will serve as the primary point of contact for various contracting entities and lead negotiations, ensuring compliance and mitigating risks.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for Contracting Officers, Contracting Officer's Representatives, and prime contractor counterparts across the portfolio
• Draft, review, and administer the full range of agreements: prime contracts, subcontracts, NDAs, teaming agreements, CRADAs, Other Transaction Agreements and OT follow-on production agreements, consulting agreements, and IP and data rights terms
• Manage contract vehicles and award types end to end — FFP, T&M, CPFF, CPIF, IDIQ and task order, BPA, GSA MAS, NASA SEWP, OTA consortium awards, SBIR/STTR Phase I–III, and Commercial Solutions Openings
• Lead negotiation of terms and conditions, flowdowns, and modifications; identify and mitigate risk in indemnification, limitation of liability, termination, warranty, and intellectual property clauses
• Protect company IP and data rights — assert and defend SBIR data rights, limited rights in technical data, and restricted rights in noncommercial software, and prevent inadvertent grants of unlimited rights
• Maintain the contracts repository, obligation and funding trackers, CDRL schedules, option exercise calendars, and the closeout pipeline so nothing lapses, overruns, or goes unbilled
• Develop and maintain the company's provisional and forward pricing rate structure — fringe, overhead, G&A, and where applicable material handling — in partnership with Finance
• Participate price-to-win analysis and competitive pricing strategy; model trade-offs between price, scope, risk posture, and margin, and give leadership a clear recommendation rather than a spreadsheet
• Review certified cost or pricing data submissions and support Truthful Cost or Pricing Data (TINA) compliance, commercial product and commercial service determinations, and price reasonableness justifications
• Own all contractual and administrative volumes — representations and certifications, past performance, small business subcontracting plans, OCI mitigation plans, and any exceptions taken to terms
• Support teaming strategy: evaluate prime versus subcontractor positioning, negotiate work share and exclusivity, and paper the relationships early enough to matter
• Participate in bid/no-bid point of view. You should be comfortable advising the team when a pursuit is not worth the capture dollars
• Track FAR, DFARS, and agency supplement compliance across the portfolio, and translate regulatory requirements into workflows that engineers and program managers will actually follow