Contracting Officer
CO
The government official with actual authority to sign a contract.
The Contracting Officer (CO) is the only government official with the legal authority to obligate funds and sign a contract. Program staff may want you, but the CO makes it binding.
Refer to them as the contracting officer, not "the client" or "the government guy" — the vocabulary signals you know how the process works.
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