Contract Specialist

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About Us

Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies that are bringing revolutionary advancements to market in three distinct practice areas: healthcare, cyber, and national security. United by a shared sense of duty and deep belief in the power of innovation, Red Cell is developing powerful tools and solutions to address our Nation’s most pressing problems.

What You'll Work On

Contract Administration & Lifecycle Management

• 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.

Pricing & Cost Strategy

• 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.

Capture & Proposal Support

• 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.

Compliance & Government Accounting

• Track FAR, DFARS, and agency supplement compliance across the portfolio, and transl

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