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FREE: Everything You Need To Know About Bid, Size & Status Protests: Effective Use of Debriefings and Bid Protests
February 1 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Free – $45.00In today’s increasingly competitive federal market, protests – including bid, and size/status – are an inevitable feature of many procurements. Succeeding in the federal marketplace requires an understanding of these processes, and how to navigate them. In this series, McCarter & English Government Contracts Partners Maria Panichelli and Franklin Turner will provide attendees with an overview on the different types of protests that a government contractor can file, or have filed against it. In this series, contractors will learn the differences between bid, size, and status protests, and how to use each to challenge contract awards that were improperly made to competitors. Attendees will also learn how to defend against unmeritorious protests filed against their own contract awards.
All Sessions 10:00am-11:30am ET
Feb 1: Effective Use of Debriefings and Bid Protests
In this session, experienced Government Contracts attorneys Maria Panichelli and Franklin Turner will provide a primer on how to effectively use debriefings and bid protests to increase contract opportunities and awards. They will:
- Explain What Bid Protests Are and How They Can Be Used to Fight for Contracts A Contractor Should Have Been Awarded, But Wasn’t
- Provide Attendees an Overview of the Bid Protest Process from the Protestor’s Point of View
- Walk Attendees Through How to Differentiate Between Types of Protests, and Their Respective Filing Deadlines
- Discuss Common Protest Bases and Arguments
- Teach Attendees How to Distinguish Between a Losing Protest and A Winning Protest
Feb 8: Keeping Your Award: Bid Protest Intervention
In this session, experienced Government Contracts attorneys Franklin Turner and Maria Panichelli will explain the process in which an awardee, whose award has been bid protested, can defend their contract award: Intervention. Attendees will learn
- What Intervention is and Why it Matters
- How and When to Intervene
- An Overview of the Bid Protest Process from the Intervenor’s Point of View
- Strategies for Getting Protests Dismissed
- Key Defense Strategies for Getting Protests Denied
- Tips on how to Interact and Cooperate with Government Counsel – Without Overstepping
Feb 15: Size and Status Protests: A Primer on Bases, Process and Procedure
In this session, experienced Government Contracts attorneys Maria Panichelli and Franklin Turner will provide an overview on size and status protests on set-aside contracts. Attendees will leave with an understanding of:
- How Size and Status Protests Differ From Bid Protests
- Eligibility Criteria for Small Business Set Aside Contracts
- Common Size and Status Protest Bases
- The Processes and Procedures for Different Types of Size/Status Protests
- How to Assert and Defend Size/Status Protests