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Jeff Belkin and Tony Balloon Quoted in General Counsel News on New OMB E-Voicing Mandate

February 22, 2016 By Alston Government Contracts Team

On February 18, Jeff Belkin and Tony Balloon were quoted in General Counsel News regarding a new mandate from the Office of Management and Budget requiring that all billing and invoicing from government contractors and federal agencies be electronic. They advise government contractors and payment service providers to prepare and implement clear, practical methods of e-payments based on the new mandate. To learn more about Belkin’s and Balloon’s comments, see “Federal Mandate on E-Voicing & Government Contract Compliance.” [...]Read more

Filed Under: Advice to Contractors & Grant Recipients, Information Technology, IP and Research in the Government World Tagged With: E-Payments, Payments, Press, The Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

Andy Howard and Jessica Sharron on “The False Claims Act: Recent Trends and Hot Topics” – A Webinar

February 15, 2016 By Jessica Sharron

On January 27, 2016, Alston & Bird’s Andy Howard and Jessica Sharron presented a live webinar titled “The False Claims Act: Recent Trends and Hot Topics” in connection with Lorman Education Services. In this 90-minute session, the attorneys covered recent developments in False Claims Act (FCA) law; the state of attorney-client privilege in FCA whistleblower (“qui tam”) lawsuits; the growing use of civil investigative demands (CIDs) and how to survive CID audits and investigations, workforce training, and FCA claim mitigation techniques; and the disagreement in various federal appeals [...]Read more

Filed Under: Advice to Contractors & Grant Recipients, Government Contract-Related Investigations and the False Claims Act Tagged With: Attorney-Client Privilege, Civil Investigative Demands (CIDs), Claims Mitigation, False Claims Act (FCA), Kellogg Brown & Root Servs. Inc. v. U.S. ex rel. Carter, Qui Tam, United States ex rel. Badr v. Triple Canopy Inc., Webinar, Whistleblower, Workforce Training

Women-Owned Small Businesses and Sole Source Contracts

February 11, 2016 By Jessica Sharron

President Obama’s administration has made it a priority to meet the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) prime and subcontracting goals, which include metrics relating to the percentage of government contracts awarded to small businesses, women-owned small businesses (WOSB), small disadvantaged businesses, service disabled veteran-owned small businesses, and historically underutilized business zones. Although in fiscal years 2013 and 2014 government agencies met or exceeded their prime contracting goals for small businesses in general, they did not achieve their goals for WOSBs. One way to [...]Read more

Filed Under: Advice to Contractors & Grant Recipients Tagged With: Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Defense Authorization Act, Regulatory Secretariat Division, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), Small Business Administration (SBA), Sole Source Award, U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), Women-Owned Small Businesses (WOSB)

Proposed Rule Requires Prime Contractor to Report Late or Reduced Payments to Small Business Subcontractors

January 25, 2016 By Andrew Howard

On January 20, 2016, the Department of Defense, General Services Administration, and NASA issued a proposed rule to amend the FAR and implement a section of the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010. This proposed rule, which will implement Section 1334 of the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 and the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) implementation of Section 1334, requires that, among other things, a prime contractor (1) notify the contracting officer, in writing, if the contractor makes a reduced or untimely payment to a small business subcontractor; and (2) disclose the reasons for the reduced [...]Read more

Filed Under: Advice to Contractors & Grant Recipients Tagged With: Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Payments, Prime Contractor, Small Business Administration (SBA), Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, Subcontracting Plans, U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)

Jeff Belkin Quoted on the U.S. Supreme Court Case Kingdomware Technologies, Inc. v. United States

January 1, 2016 By Alston Government Contracts Team

On November 5, 2015, Jeff Belkin was quoted in Law360 in connection with the Kingdomware case. Belkin was again quoted on December 1, 2015, in Law.com on the same case. At issue for the Court is whether the Federal Circuit court erred in construing 38 U.S.C. § 8127(d)’s mandatory set-aside as discretionary. Subsections (b), (c), and (d) of 38 U.S.C. § 8127 provide authority for the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) contracting officers to restrict competition and make awards directly to service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) and veteran-owned small business (VOSB) firms, [...]Read more

Filed Under: Advice to Contractors & Grant Recipients Tagged With: Kingdomware Technologies Inc. v. United States, Press, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), U.S. Supreme Court, Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB), Writ of Certiorari

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