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A teaming agreement is the contract a prime and a subcontractor sign before a government bid is even submitted, long before anyone has won anything.

The danger is signing one that does not actually bind. A Virginia Supreme Court case made it concrete: the agreement promised a 41% workshare, the prime won, and then offered only 22% in subcontract negotiations. The court sided with the prime, because the subcontract depended on future good-faith negotiation. A number on paper is not a contract.

Make the agreement specific. Attach the essential subcontract terms and pricing as an exhibit before you sign.

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By the time the RFP is published, the requirements are often already shaped. The win is decided earlier, during capture.

Pre-bid support (Sources Sought, RFI responses, capability inputs) is the underused service. Techtiz prepares it from the back office for the prime. We never face the agency.

Pre-Bid Support: What It Is, What It Costs, and Why It Matters Pre-bid support: the most underused service an offshore RSP can offer Most offshore firms wait for the RFP. They watch the bid portals, the solicitation drops, and then they scramble to help a prime respond inside a 3-week window.

What primes actually score in a subcontractor: reliability, compliance awareness, communication discipline, and NDA readiness.

None of it requires facing the agency. All of it is back-office discipline a subcontractor controls.

Techtiz: NDA-first, subcontract-only.

What U.S. Prime Contractors Actually Want from an Offshore Subcontractor What primes actually evaluate when they consider an offshore subcontractor Offshore firms pitch primes the same way every time. A capabilities deck, a stack list, an hourly rate, a line about quality and communication.