Applicant Terms
Version 1.1 · Effective October 10, 2026
1. Who these terms are between and when they apply
These Applicant Terms (the “Terms”) are an agreement between you and Precision Delivery Federal LLC, doing business as Precision Federal, together with its successors and assigns (“Precision Federal,” “we” or “us”). They apply to every application, résumé, message and other information you send us about working with us, whether through this website, a job board, email or any other channel, and to everything that follows from it, including our review of your application, any decision we make about it and any proposal on which you are named.
By checking the box on our application form, you agree to these Terms. Checking the box is your electronic signature, has the same effect as a handwritten signature, and is made under the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act and the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as adopted in Iowa. If you do not agree, do not submit an application.
2. An application is not an offer, and no relationship is created
Submitting an application, joining our bench, being contacted by us, being named on a proposal, or receiving any communication from us does not create an offer of work, an employment relationship, an independent-contractor relationship, a partnership, a joint venture, an agency or any other relationship, and does not promise that any work will be offered, funded or paid.
Work begins only under a separate written agreement signed by you and by Precision Federal. That agreement, and not these Terms, sets out the work, the rate, the hours and the other terms of any engagement. If any later written agreement between you and Precision Federal conflicts with these Terms, the later agreement controls for the matters it covers.
Any employment with Precision Federal is at will unless a written agreement signed by Precision Federal’s owner says otherwise. Any consulting engagement is as an independent contractor, and nothing in an application, a proposal or our communications makes a consultant an employee.
3. Our decisions
Precision Federal decides, in its sole discretion and for any lawful reason, whether to consider, contact, name, select or engage any applicant, and may stop considering any application at any time without notice or explanation. Our decisions depend on, among other things, qualifications, experience, rates, availability, location, the requirements of each solicitation and customer, the needs of each contract, and our judgment about the team that gives us the best chance to win and deliver. We are not required to keep any role open, to fill any role, or to bid on or win any contract.
4. Information you give us must be true
You certify that everything you give us, including your résumé, education, employment history, licenses, certifications, clearances, citizenship or immigration status, state of residence, rates and availability, is true, complete and not misleading, and that any résumé you provide is your own. You agree to tell us promptly if any of it changes, including if you move to a different state. False, incomplete or misleading information is grounds to reject your application, to remove you from any proposal, and to end any engagement at any time, whenever it is discovered.
5. Eligibility
Our consultant roles are open to U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents living in the United States. Some contracts also require U.S. citizenship, a security clearance, a background investigation, drug screening, specific licenses or residence in a particular place, and you may be considered only for work you are eligible to perform. We may decline applications from people living in certain states or localities.
6. Verification and background checks
You authorize Precision Federal to verify the information you provide, including by contacting schools, licensing bodies and former employers or clients, checking publicly available sources, and checking government exclusion and debarment lists such as SAM.gov. Any background check obtained from a consumer reporting agency will be requested only after we give you a separate written disclosure and you sign a separate authorization, as the Fair Credit Reporting Act and applicable state law require.
7. Being named on proposals
If you agree that we may name you on proposals, you authorize Precision Federal to include your name, résumé, qualifications, experience, rate and availability in proposals, quotes, capability statements and related documents submitted to government agencies and other customers, and to edit and format that material for those submissions without changing its substance.
You agree that what we submit about you, as you approved it, is accurate, and that if the contract is awarded you will perform the role at the rate and hours we agreed, subject to a signed written agreement. You agree to tell us promptly if you become unavailable. While a proposal naming you is pending, you agree not to allow another company to name you for the same solicitation without first telling us. Customers may require us to substitute personnel, and nothing in these Terms guarantees that you will remain on any proposal or contract.
8. No payment for applying
You will not be paid or reimbursed for the time or costs of applying, interviewing, preparing materials, being named on a proposal or any other activity before a signed written agreement, and you will not make any claim for them.
9. Your materials
You grant Precision Federal a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual license to use, copy, store, edit and share the materials you send us for the purposes described in these Terms. You confirm that you have the right to give us those materials and that they do not contain confidential information, trade secrets or proprietary material belonging to any former or current employer, client or other person. Do not send us any such information.
10. Confidentiality
Information we share with you about proposals, customers, pricing, teams, strategy, solicitations before they are public, or our business is confidential. You agree to use it only to consider and pursue work with us, not to disclose it to anyone else, and to return or delete it when we ask. This obligation continues after our discussions end. Nothing in these Terms limits your right to report possible violations of law to a government agency or to make disclosures protected by whistleblower laws.
11. How we use and keep your information
We use the information you send us to consider you for current and future work, to communicate with you, to prepare and submit proposals with your agreement, to verify your information, to meet contract, legal and record-keeping obligations, and to protect our legal rights. We share it with government customers and other organizations evaluating or working with us on a proposal or contract, with service providers who help us operate, and as the law requires. We do not sell your personal information. We keep application records for as long as we consider them useful for future work or as the law requires, and you may ask us at any time to stop considering you or to delete your information, subject to records we must keep. See our Privacy Policy.
12. Contacting you
You agree that Precision Federal may contact you about your application and about current and future work by email, phone or text message at the contact information you provide, including through automated scheduling or messaging tools. Message and data rates may apply. You may ask us to stop at any time by telling us or replying STOP to a text.
13. Our workplace
Precision Federal was founded on Christian values. Taking part in any faith activity, including prayer or faith conversations, is always voluntary and is never required to work with us. People of every faith and background are welcome.
14. Age and work authorization
You must be at least eighteen (18) years old to apply. Precision Federal does not sponsor visas or other immigration benefits for consultant roles. You agree to provide documentation of your identity and eligibility when we ask.
15. Export control and controlled information
Some work involves technical data, software or information controlled under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, the Export Administration Regulations, or rules for Controlled Unclassified Information. You agree to tell us truthfully whether you are a U.S. person as those regulations define it, and you understand that we may be legally required to limit some work to U.S. persons or to people who meet other requirements.
16. Automated tools
We may use software, including automated and artificial-intelligence-assisted tools, to receive, organize, summarize and review applications and to schedule and send communications. People at Precision Federal make the final decisions about naming or engaging anyone. Where a law that applies to you requires notice, an explanation or an alternative process for automated tools, you may ask us for it at [email protected].
17. Your responsibility for your information
To the fullest extent the law allows, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless Precision Federal, its owners, members, managers and employees from any third-party claim, loss or expense, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising from information you gave us that was false or misleading, from materials you sent us that you did not have the right to share, or from your breach of Sections 9 or 10. This does not apply to any claim that applicable law does not allow to be shifted to you.
18. Website and limitation of liability
Our website and application form are provided “as is.” To the fullest extent the law allows, Precision Federal is not liable for any lost or delayed application, technical failure, or indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages arising from the application process. Nothing in this section limits any right that cannot be limited by law.
19. Governing law and venue
The Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. § 1 and following, governs Section 20 and its interpretation and enforcement. Otherwise, these Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Iowa, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. For any matter allowed to proceed in court, you and Precision Federal consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts serving Story County, Iowa. For applications, these Terms control over any conflicting provision of the website’s general Terms of Use.
20. Resolving disagreements
Informal resolution first. Before starting any arbitration or other proceeding, the party with a claim must send the other a written notice describing the claim and the relief requested, and both parties will try in good faith to resolve it for at least thirty (30) days. Notices to Precision Federal go to [email protected].
Agreement to arbitrate. Except as stated below, you and Precision Federal agree that any dispute, claim or controversy between you and Precision Federal, or its owners, members, managers, employees, agents, successors or assigns, arising out of or relating to your application, our consideration or decision about it, any proposal on which you are or were to be named, these Terms, or any work or prospective work with us, including claims of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful failure to hire or contract, breach of contract, and claims under any federal, state or local statute, regulation, ordinance or common law (each a “Claim”), will be resolved exclusively by final and binding arbitration before a single neutral arbitrator. The arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Employment/Workplace Arbitration Rules then in effect, except as these Terms provide otherwise. The arbitration will be held in Story County, Iowa, or by video conference if either party asks, and the arbitrator may award any individual relief that a court could award on the same Claim.
Who decides. The arbitrator decides all questions about the arbitrability of any Claim and the scope, validity and enforceability of this section, except that only a court may decide questions about the class, collective and representative action waiver below.
Costs. Precision Federal will pay all arbitration administrative fees and the arbitrator’s fees, except that if you start the arbitration you will pay a filing fee no greater than the fee to file a lawsuit in the Iowa District Court. Each party pays its own attorneys’ fees and costs unless the arbitrator awards them under a law that allows it.
Class, collective and representative action waiver. You and Precision Federal each agree to bring Claims only in an individual capacity and not as a plaintiff, class member or representative in any purported class, collective, consolidated, private attorney general or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate the Claims of more than one person or award relief to anyone other than the individual party. If this waiver is found unenforceable as to any Claim, that Claim must proceed in court on an individual basis to the extent possible, and will be stayed until any arbitrable Claims are resolved.
Mass filings. If twenty-five (25) or more similar Claims are brought against Precision Federal by or with the help of the same or coordinated counsel, the Claims will be administered in batches of no more than twenty-five (25), one batch at a time, and fees for each batch will be charged only when that batch begins. The statutes of limitations for Claims in later batches are paused while they wait.
Jury waiver. You and Precision Federal each give up the right to a trial by jury and, except as stated below, the right to have any Claim decided in court.
What is not covered. This section does not prevent either party from bringing an individual Claim in small-claims court; does not prevent you from filing a charge or complaint with, or taking part in an investigation by, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Iowa Civil Rights Commission, the National Labor Relations Board or any other government agency; does not cover claims that applicable federal law says cannot be required to be arbitrated, including, at your election, claims of sexual harassment or sexual assault; and does not prevent either party from asking a court for temporary relief to protect confidential information pending arbitration.
Your right to opt out. You may opt out of this section by emailing [email protected] with the subject line “Arbitration opt-out” and your full name within thirty (30) days after you first agree to these Terms. Opting out will not affect our consideration of your application. If you opt out, the rest of these Terms still apply.
Survival. This section survives the end of our consideration of your application and any engagement, and continues to apply even if you are never engaged.
21. General terms
These Terms are the entire agreement between you and Precision Federal about your application and replace any earlier statements about it, except for any separate written agreement signed by both of us. If any part of these Terms is found unenforceable, it will be enforced to the greatest extent permitted and the rest will remain in effect, except as Section 20 provides for the class, collective and representative action waiver. Our failure to enforce any part is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms; Precision Federal may assign them to an affiliate or successor. Headings are for convenience only, and “including” means “including without limitation.” Sections 4, 7, 9, 10, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21 survive the end of our consideration of your application.
22. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms. The version you agreed to stays with your application. A change to Section 20 will not apply to any Claim of which either party had notice before the change took effect.
23. Contact
Precision Delivery Federal LLC, doing business as Precision Federal · [email protected]