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Biden’s Infrastructure Funding Comes with Strings Attached

January 10, 2022 By Jeffrey Belkin

President Biden’s long-awaited Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was passed by Congress and signed into law in November 2021. While the new law brings about new sources of revenue and opportunities for contractors, particularly those involved in complex construction projects such as roads, bridge and tunnels, traditional and renewable energy, drinking and wastewater delivery, and information technology infrastructure, these new sources of revenue are likely to come with strings attached. With the creation of the Made in America Office, whose purpose will be to monitor contractors’ compliance [...]Read more

Filed Under: Advice to Contractors & Grant Recipients, Bid Protests & Public Contract Award-Related Representations, Information Technology, IP and Research in the Government World, P3 Matters, Public Construction, Public Contract Litigation, State, Regional and Local Government Contracts Tagged With: Construction Contracts, Government Spending, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Infrastructure Plan

Is There a Road Forward for Biden’s Infrastructure Plans?

May 20, 2021 By Alston Government Contracts Team

On March 31, 2021 President Biden unveiled his American Jobs Plan in the form of two massive spending and tax proposals. Policy makers in Washington are actively debating and preparing to legislate based on these proposals. The first proposal, totaling $2.3 trillion, is focused on traditional infrastructure improvements, broadly defined, and includes highways, bridges, ports, airports, and transit; broadband; clean water; electric-grid upgrades; upgrades to residential, commercial, school, and federal buildings; investments in the care economy to raise wages and expand services; and investments [...]Read more

Filed Under: Advice to Contractors & Grant Recipients, Bid Protests & Public Contract Award-Related Representations, Public Construction, Public Contract Litigation, Public Health Care Contracts, State, Regional and Local Government Contracts Tagged With: Construction Contracts, Government Spending, Infrastructure Plan

Alston & Bird 2018 GovCon Briefing and CLE: Washington, D.C.

November 16, 2018 By Alston Government Contracts Team

On October 24, the Government Contracts team at Alston & Bird hosted its inaugural briefing in Washington, D.C. discussing the latest developments and industry updates in the government contracts space.  Presenters included Jeff Belkin, Jeniffer Roberts, Jessica Sharron, Jeremy Silverman, Andy Howard, Mike Mortorano and Katherine Veeder. The topics addressed were a variety of industry developments and key areas that are particularly salient in the current GovCon market.  Jeremy Silverman and Jeniffer Roberts provided a valuable bridge between the GovCon world and the M&A market by [...]Read more

Filed Under: Bid Protests & Public Contract Award-Related Representations, Government Contract-Related Investigations and the False Claims Act, Public Contract Litigation Tagged With: Bid Protest, False Claims Act (FCA), Qui Tam

UnitedHealthcare Wins Medicaid Bid Protest Case

May 14, 2018 By Alston Government Contracts Team

On April 10, 2018, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled in favor of our client, UnitedHealthcare, in their case against the state Department of Human Services (DHS) for violating the state’s procurement code during a 2015 bid process for the $12 billion in Medicaid physical health services contracts. UnitedHealthcare, a Medicaid provider in the state at the time but not reselected for any areas, protested the bid selections after the discovery of a secret December 2016 meeting of state officials and two top executives of another bidder who ultimately won a contract. The DHS denied UnitedHealthcare’s [...]Read more

Filed Under: Bid Protests & Public Contract Award-Related Representations, Public Health Care Contracts, State, Regional and Local Government Contracts Tagged With: Bid Protest

Are More Constitutional Challenges to State DBE Contracting Programs On the Way?

February 24, 2016 By Andrew Howard

An Illinois construction company is petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether it has standing to challenge as unconstitutional a state’s implementation of a disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) participation goal in connection with a road project. If sustained, the company’s challenge would have far-reaching implications, including opening the door for other disappointed bidders to prosecute constitutional challenges to states’ implementation of mandatory disadvantaged business contracting programs. In 2009, the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) sought bids for [...]Read more

Filed Under: Bid Protests & Public Contract Award-Related Representations, Public Construction, Public Contract Litigation Tagged With: Construction Contracts, Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE), Dunnet Bay Construction Company, Equal Protection, Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), Injunctive Relief, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, U.S. Supreme Court

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