Representative Matters
Representative Experience
Government Contracts Law:
- Successfully pursuing and defending against bid protests before GAO and the Court of Federal Claims
- Successfully representing federal contractors undergoing suspension and debarment actions or investigations by SBA and/or other federal agencies
- Counsels clients on Indian tribal sovereign immunity
- Counsels clients on joint venturing and mentor/protégé regulations for federal small business contracting programs
- Obtaining termination settlements with the Government on behalf of government contractors
Small Business Programs & Advisory Services:
- Successfully obtaining size recertifications by SBA
- Successfully pursuing and defending against numerous size and eligibility status protests and appeals before SBA Office of Hearings and Appeals
- Advising clients on compliance with Small Business Regulations and the Federal Acquisition Regulation
- Advising clients in obtaining or maintaining 8(a) certification
- Defends HUBZone contractors in HUBZone eligibility protests
- Assists small businesses in obtaining size recertifications by SBA
Business & Transactions Law:
- Assists with formation of joint ventures, mentor/protégé relationships, and teaming arrangements
- Reviews and prepares joint venture agreements, corporate formation and governance documents, mentor/protégé agreements, teaming agreements, and consulting agreements
- Advises federal contractors on corporate restructuring
- Assists with the novation of federal contracts
Representative Cases
- Successfully protested the award of a contract to a vendor where the agency did not have a reasonable basis for concluding that the differences between the quotation of the awardee and the protestor were negligible. See Protection Strategies, Inc., B-414648.2, B-41464.3 (Nov. 20, 2017)
- Represented contract awardee in a successfully defense of an 8(a) sole source award. See NTELX, Inc., B-413837 (Dec. 28, 2016).
- Represented contract awardee in a successful defense of an agency decision to override GAO automatic stay of performance of the contract pending the conclusion of a bid protest. Charles F. Day & Assoc. v. United States, 120 Fed. Cl. 767 (2015)
- Obtained a preliminary injunction of a sole-source bridge contract award. See Cherokee Nation Techs., LLC v. United States, 116 Fed. Cl. 636 (2014)
- Obtained a remand from OHA of a denial of an 8(a) application that was based upon an unsupported negative finding of social disadvantage. See Loyal Source Government Services, LLC, SBA No. BDP-434 (Jun. 22, 2012)
- Successfully protested the size of an awardee of a government contract, including intervening in the awardee’s appeal of an adverse size determination before OHA. See RGB Group, Inc., SBA No. SIZ-5351 (May 7, 2012)
- Successfully obtained a preliminary injunction enjoining award of a contract pending an appeal before OHA. See Metters Indus., Inc. v. United States, No. 13-116C, 2013 WL 751304 (Feb. 27, 2013)
- Obtained injunctive relief at the Court of Federal Claims requiring re-evaluation of an offer in a large information technology procurement. See Standard Commc’ns. Inc. v. United States, 101 Fed. Cl. 723 (2011)
Credentials
Education
- The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, J.D., 2000
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1992
Admissions
- Maryland
- District of Columbia
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
- U.S. District Court, District of Maryland
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims
- U.S. Court of International Trade