Venable LLP houses a ‘talented team with great experience’ which excels in complex bid protests and frequently acts for clients in the defense and healthcare sectors. Other areas of expertise include compliance advice on FAR and SAFETY Act designations, cost accounting, suspension and debarment proceedings. Paul Debolt and Scott Hommer both lead the Washington DC based team, with the former handling all stages of the procurement process, from the initial bid, through to contract termination and any ensuring disputes, and the latter adept in IP rights, regulatory compliance, bid protests and other related litigation. Dismas Locaria is experienced in suspension and debarment matters, small business contracting and domestic security, James Boland advises defense, intelligence and publicly traded contractors through bid protests and Rebecca Pearson is similarly a go to contract for bid protests and other civil litigation matters.
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Accolades

Client satisfaction

Testimonials

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  • ‘Talented team with great experience.’

  • ‘Very responsive.’

  • ‘Venable is very responsive and business oriented. They are on my speed-dial for trade and government contracts work.’

Key clients

  • Leidos, Inc.
  • Crowley Maritime, Inc.
  • PSSI Stadium, LLC
  • Noblis, Inc.
  • Peraton, Inc.
  • Karsun Solutions, LLC and Neev-KS Technologies, LLC
  • V2X, Inc.
  • Perspecta Enterprise Solutions, LLC
  • Agile Defense
  • Agile- Bot II LLC

Work highlights

  • Advised Crowley Government Services, Inc. on challenging the U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) audits of transportation contracts conducted under the Transportation Act of 1940.
  • Defended Peraton’s award of an order by the Defense Health Agency (DHA) under Peraton’s Basic Ordering Agreement for the Joint Operational Medicine Information Systems Operational Medicine Care Delivery Platform Phase 3 from a bid protest filed by ViiNetwork, Inc. d/b/a ViiMed.
  • Represented Karsun Solutions, LLC, and Neev-KS Technologies, LLC in challenging Phase 1 exclusions in the massive Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners (CIO-SP4) procurement.

Lawyers

Practice head

Paul Debolt; Scott Hommer

Other key lawyers

Dismas Locaria; James Boland; Rebecca Pearson