Contract Specialist

$60–80/hr

rate as listed

Workload: ~15h/week
Engagement: Project-based
Location: US
Field: Legal

Evaluate AI-generated federal procurement work for accuracy, FAR compliance, and practical usefulness across the acquisition lifecycle. The work includes building realistic evaluation tasks from public-domain materials and developing reference artifacts such as PWS, SOW, and IGCE samples.

The work

This contract role applies federal acquisition experience to AI training and evaluation. Day to day, you may source public-domain PWS, SOW, IGCE, solicitation, proposal evaluation, and protest materials, turn them into realistic contracting tasks, run those tasks through AI models, and score the results for factual accuracy, FAR compliance, and practical usefulness.

Procurement responsibilities

The work spans pre-award planning, solicitation, negotiation, proposal analysis, and post-award administration. You may develop benchmark PWS, SOW, and IGCE materials, review procurement documents, annotate training data, and provide written or verbal recommendations that explain both what is wrong and how an output should be improved.

Screening focus

Expect the platform screen to probe direct federal contracting experience, command of the FAR and relevant agency-specific regulations, and hands-on preparation of acquisition artifacts. Strong answers will use verifiable examples, explain the reasoning behind an acquisition decision, and distinguish a technically plausible response from one that is compliant, defensible, and useful to a contracting team.

Logistics

This is a remote contractor role for candidates in the United States. The listing does not disclose typical weekly hours or confirm that all work is asynchronous, so candidates should be ready to state realistic availability and clarify scheduling expectations with micro1.

Pay band: $60–80/hr

What they look for

Federal Contracting
Contract Negotiation
Pre-Award and Post-Award Procedures
GS-1102
Procurement
Proposal Evaluation

Included with this listing

Interview prep — 10 questions

Matched to what this platform's screening actually measures. Answer each out loud in 60–90 seconds: claim → concrete example → implication.

What it tests: This tests whether your background includes substantive federal acquisition work rather than adjacent program, legal, or administrative support.
A strong answer: Give a chronological account with role titles, procurement phases handled, contract types or acquisition contexts, and specific decisions or artifacts you owned. Clearly separate your work from approvals or actions performed by the contracting officer or another team member.
Where people lose it: Candidates lose points by listing procurement terminology without identifying what they personally drafted, evaluated, negotiated, administered, or approved.

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