Same experience as you jscott. Guess it was a feature that was planned, but didn't make the 1.0 cut. Or it's bugged. I know it also doesn't work for ground formations, which makes organizing that a lot longer too.
Is the civilian wealth economy currently functional? I have 1600 infrastructure sitting on Earth in the civ economy ready for export, but none of my civilian freights are moving them to my single colony, Mars. Mars has a demand for infrastructure in their market table, but the civilian freighters have remained immobile over Earth for well over six months.
I also might just be misremembering how the civ contract/market system worked, and it's more random than this interaction.