Government Contracts

Experience Highlights

• Professional services firm in advising on proposed legislation banning the U.S. Department of Defense and other federal agencies from contracting with consulting firms who are simultaneously providing consulting services to the Chinese government or its affiliates.

• Life sciences companies and industry associations in advising on the supply chain implications and national security aspects of bipartisan legislation - including the BIOSECURE Act – imposing U.S. government contracting bans on pharmaceutical companies that rely on certain Chinese companies.

• Department of Defense contractor in a substantial civil False Claims Act and related suspension and debarment proceedings that involved the meeting of significant demands, national press coverage, international contracting, and unique legal issues regarding extra-territoriality. Following extensive litigation, we successfully resolved all aspects of the matter through settlement and agreement.

• ​​​​​​L3 Technologies (now L3Harris Technologies) in (i) a US Court of Federal Claims bid protest appeal defending the US Air Force's award of a contract to modernize avionics for its C-130H aircraft, and (ii) as FCC regulatory counsel, its merger with Harris Corporation

• L3Harris Technologies in securing a judgment in its favor before the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals for a deficit arising from a pension segment closure under Cost Accounting Standard 413.

• AstraZeneca in agreements for the funding and global distribution of the University of Oxford's potential COVID-19 vaccine, including an award from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) for the development, production, and delivery of vaccine to the United States.

• Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) in a US$230 million National Reconnaissance Office bid protest award that resulted in implementation of corrective that included new proposals, discussions and evaluations, and ultimately an award to protestor SAIC after the new evaluations occurred.

• DC Capital Partners in its sale of radio frequency solutions provider QRC Technologies LLC to digital solutions provider Parsons Corporation.

• Airbus, as lead counsel, in the disclosures and settlement with the U.S. Department of State's investigations into filings pursuant to the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and assistance with the company's implementation of the Consent Agreement with the Department of State.

• Booz Allen Hamilton in a bid protest defense before the General Administration Office of a task order that the Federal Emergency Management Agency issued to it for emergency preparedness support services; we persuaded the GAO that no unequal discussions with FEMA occurred and the agency properly excluded the protestor from the competition.