SAME SB Council Webinar: Suspensions, Terminations, Nonpayment, Oh My! A Contractor’s Survival Guide to EO-/DOGE-Related Impacts

About This Webinar

With Executive Orders flying fast and furious, DOGE Indicatives impacting a number of contracts, and contracting offices across agencies and industries struggling to keep up, it sure has been an interesting time to be a federal government contractor. Many contractors in recent months have experienced contract suspensions or received stop work orders, have been terminated for default, or have experienced issues regarding non-payment. Modifications are also increasingly common, as are the incursion of unanticipated costs or delays. If you have experienced any of these things, and are confused about what to do next, rest assured that you are not alone. But neither are you without recourse or resources.

In this webinar, you will walk through how to survive suspension and termination actions, and how to make sure you can recoup the money you are owed. Discussion will include: key strategies for primes and subs, the ways in which they should be cooperating in these fast-moving times, actions primes may be able to take in relation to unpaid invoices, and how to avoid common pitfalls relating to contract modifications. Potential claims arising from EOs and DOGE Impacts will also be covered, as will ongoing legal developments regarding EOs.

Learning Objectives:
- Identify your rights and obligations as a prime when suspended or after receiving a stop-work order
- Navigate a termination for convenience and recoup all allowable costs
- Understand key areas of prime/sub communication and cooperation in the context of suspensions and terminations
- Familiarize yourself with remedies and recourse relating to unpaid invoices undisputedly due and owing
- Identify potential claim bases arising out of EOs and DOGE impacts

Who Should Attend:
- Any contractor who is experiencing issues relating to suspension, termination, non-payment, modifications, and/or EO/DOGE-related impacts, or any contractor who wants to be prepared in case they experience these things in the near future

Who can view: Everyone

Webinar Price: Free

Featured Presenters

Maria Panichelli

Partner, McCarter & English, LLP

Maria Panichelli is a partner at the law firm of McCarter & English, and a government contract attorney with a concentration in bid protest litigation, construction and infrastructure-related issues, and small business procurement. Maria helps her contractor clients – both primes and subs, located and working all over the nation as well as abroad – navigate all stages of the federal procurement process. Some of her primary practice areas are: Bid Protest Litigation (asserting and defending bid protests before agencies, the GAO and the COFC); Requests for Equitable Adjustment (aka REAs), Claims, and Claims Appeal Litigation before the Boards of Contract Appeal and COFC (including claims relating to express and constructive contract changes, differing site conditions, defective specifications, all varieties of delay and disruption, suspensions, and terminations); Performance and Compliance Counseling (including FAR compliance, False Claims Act counseling, and Suspension/Debarment); Contract Cost Accounting and Pricing; Buy American and Country of Origin Requirements; Cybersecurity and CMMC; Federal Subcontracting (including the negotiation and drafting of FAR-compliant subcontracts, sub/prime dispute resolution, pass-through claims and liquidating agreements); and Small Business Procurement (including eligibility and certification issues, size/status protests, teaming, JVs and the mentor protégé programs). She also handles Miller Act claims. Maria has substantial experience with ANCs, NHOs, and Tribally Owned concerns, and does a lot of work assisting these clients with the broad array of unique issues that come up in that space. Her clients enjoy practical and shrewd advice, as well as zealous advocacy. Maria’s comprehensive legal counseling allows her clients to successfully navigate the complicated legal requirements related to the government marketplace while still accomplishing their corporate goals.

Maria is a frequent author and lecturer on government contract topics, and an active participant in many GovCon industry groups.

VIEW PROFILE

Sally Clark

VIEW PROFILE

Hosted By

SAME

SAME webinars

VIEW CHANNEL CONTACT

Documents

Recommended