Autonomy Runway
Back to the Company toolkit

Example: Agreement planners

Made for Sierra Lift, a sample company. Sierra Lift is not a real company.

Before you call a lawyer about an operating agreement, an NDA, a teaming or joint venture agreement, a subcontract, a distributor agreement or a technology license, write down your own decisions. You get a summary to take to your lawyer, who writes the agreement. We do not write agreements or give legal advice.

Autonomy Runway is not a law firm, an accounting firm or a financial adviser, and nothing we publish is legal, tax or financial advice. The guides are general information with links to the official sources, and the tools organize your own facts and decisions. For advice about your situation, talk to a lawyer, an accountant or a financial adviser. See all our disclaimers.

Write down your own business decisions for this agreement. Each group of questions saves on its own, and any question can stay “Not decided yet”: the summary lists those for your lawyer. Your lawyer writes the agreement; this page never does.

What this agreement is: teaming agreement

A teaming agreement sets out how companies work together on a bid: who is the prime, who is the subcontractor, who does what on the proposal, and what each expects if the bid wins.

Rules you will hear about

On a contract set aside for small businesses, SBA's rules limit how much of the work the prime passes to subcontractors that are not similarly situated (13 CFR 125.6, at ecfr.gov/current/title-13/section-125.6). Your lawyer applies them to your agreement.

Find help

Lawyers and export compliance organizations that work with drone and robotics companies. Organizations listed here are not endorsed by Autonomy Runway. Some of these pages were built from public information, and nobody at the firm has an account yet: reach those through their own website.

Lawyers on Autonomy RunwayExport compliance organizations

ExampleIts people, customers, partners, lenders, investors, addresses, numbers, UEI and CAGE code are made up.

DECISION SUMMARY

Sierra Lift Aerospace — Teaming agreement: our decisions

With Delta Integration Systems · September 26, 2026

Teaming with Delta Integration for the county mapping bid

This is not an agreement and not legal advice. It lists our business decisions for our lawyer to use in drafting an agreement. Questions we have not decided are marked for discussion.

6 of 10

Questions decided

4

To discuss with our lawyer

2 of 4

Ready to bring to our lawyer

THE BUSINESS QUESTIONS
1.The solicitation: agency, number and due date

County fire mapping airframes, solicitation number to come, due in December

2.Our side

We are a subcontractor

3.What work each company does if the bid wins, and roughly what share of the contract value

We build and deliver the airframes and train the crews; Delta integrates the sensors and runs the program. We expect about a third of the contract value.

4.The bid's set-aside, if any
Not decided yet — for discussion
5.Whether each company may team with others on this bid
Not decided yet — for discussion
6.Who writes, prices and pays for which parts of the proposal

We write the airframe and training sections and price our own work; each company pays its own proposal costs.

7.What happens after an award (for example when the subcontract is signed and what it covers)
Not decided yet — for discussion
8.What happens if the bid is lost or cancelled, and when the agreement ends

The agreement ends if the county cancels the solicitation, awards it to another team, or 12 months pass without an award.

9.What proprietary information each shares, and whether a non-disclosure agreement comes first

Our layup schedules and the arm joint's drawings stay ours. We sign a mutual non-disclosure agreement before either side shares drawings.

10.Whether the companies agree not to hire each other's staff for a time
Not decided yet — for discussion
BRING TO YOUR LAWYER
The solicitation — not yet
Both companies' capability statements — ready
Both SAM.gov registrations — ready
Any non-disclosure agreement already signed — not yet
TO DISCUSS WITH OUR LAWYER
4.The bid's set-aside, if any
5.Whether each company may team with others on this bid
7.What happens after an award (for example when the subcontract is signed and what it covers)
10.Whether the companies agree not to hire each other's staff for a time
sierralift.example

What you get

A decision summary in Word (.docx) and PDF, for your lawyer, who writes the agreement.

Login
Back to the Company toolkit

Autonomy Runway is not a law firm, an accounting firm or a financial adviser, and nothing we publish is legal, tax or financial advice. The guides are general information with links to the official sources, and the tools organize your own facts and decisions. For advice about your situation, talk to a lawyer, an accountant or a financial adviser. See all our disclaimers.