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Contractors are facing the obligation of a more than three percent minimum wage. That's under the annual wage determination coming from the Labor Department. But a couple of federal court cases seem to limit how widely the new wage determination will apply. We get more now from Centre Law partner Alan Chvotkin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Contractors are facing the obligation of a more than three percent minimum wage. That's under the annual wage determination coming from the Labor Department. But a couple of federal court cases seem to limit how widely the new wage determination will apply. We get more now from Centre Law partner Alan Chvotkin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two recent Supreme Court decisions changed the calculus for contractors when it comes to dealing with the False Claims Act. The court altered long-standing definitions of "reckless disregard" and "deliberate ignorance." And it gave the government more discretion over dismissing whistleblower cases under the false claims act. For analysis, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin turned to long-time procurement attorney and a partner at Center Law, Alan Chvotkin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two recent Supreme Court decisions changed the calculus for contractors when it comes to dealing with the False Claims Act. The court altered long-standing definitions of "reckless disregard" and "deliberate ignorance." And it gave the government more discretion over dismissing whistleblower cases under the false claims act. For analysis, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin turned to long-time procurement attorney and a partner at Center Law, Alan Chvotkin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

GovCon guru and attorney Alan Chvotkin, partner at Nichols Liu, joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to share his key rules of government contracting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

GovCon guru and attorney Alan Chvotkin, partner at Nichols Liu, joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to share his key rules of government contracting.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's department issued a new small-business strategy a couple of weeks ago. It comes as more dollars are going to fewer smaller businesses. The contracting world is pondering why the small business industrial base is shrinking. For analysis of the strategy, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with attorney Alan Chvotkin, a partner at Nichols Liu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's department issued a new small-business strategy a couple of weeks ago. It comes as more dollars are going to fewer smaller businesses. The contracting world is pondering why the small business industrial base is shrinking. For analysis of the strategy, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with attorney Alan Chvotkin, a partner at Nichols Liu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Bona Fide Needs, Arnold & Porter Partner Mike McGill and PubKGroup President Alan Chvotkin preview Pub K's upcoming 2023 Annual Review.  From January 9 - 12, three dozen top government contracting practitioners will break down the most important and intriguing developments affecting federal contractors and their counsel. Government officials, private sector attorneys, and in-house experts will examine 2022's key litigation, enforcement activity, agency regulatory activity, and developments from Capitol Hill and the White House.  Pub K's Annual Review is free to the public. To register, visit Pub K online at https://pubkgroup.com/govcon-annual-review-2023/.       

Federal contractors have high confidence for the future of their businesses, especially if they're selling cybersecurity services and anything with the word infrastructure in it. That's according to a new index, which purports to be the first of its kind. For how they developed it and what it says, the Federal Drive turned to Alan Chvotkin, a partner at the law firm Nichols Liu and a co-author of the study.

On today's episode of The Daily Scoop Podcast, an $11 billion cloud contract at DISA is on hold. General Dynamics is protesting the Defense Enclave Services contract DISA awarded to Leidos. Alan Chvotkin, Partner at Nichols Liu, explains why big contracts get protested, and how challenges with big contract like DES parallel challenges with GWACs like GSA's Polaris. The Defense Department's zero trust journey is under way. The Chief Information Officer at the Pentagon, John Sherman, told me Tuesday the Department's system isn't the only priority. Jack Wilmer, CEO of Core4ce and former Chief Information Security Officer at the Defense Department, details the people, process, and technology to execute on a zero trust strategy for the Department and the defense industrial base. The Internal Revenue Service will get a budget increase of almost 6% in the omnibus budget Congress just passed and President Biden signed. Some of that increase will go to modernizing the agency's technology. Kaschit Pandya, Deputy Chief Information Officer for IT Operations at the IRS, talks with my colleague Wyatt Kash about the implications of the cloud computing deployments the agency has already made. Click here to watch the video of this conversation. The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every weekday afternoon. Listen more here. If you want to hear more of the latest from Washington, subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher. And if you like what you hear, please let us know in the comments.

It may be slow to change, and cluttered like a baroque Christmas tree. But the federal acquisition and contracting apparatus in the government has proven surprisingly adaptable. That's a chief finding in the every-two-years survey conducted by the Professional Services Council. Joining the Federal Drive with details, the council's Executive Vice President and Counsel, Alan Chvotkin.

Acquisition 360 is a late-hour initiative by the Office of Federal Procurement Policy to improve communications between industry and government. It's a good idea as far as it goes, but could it go a little further? The executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council, Alan Chvotkin, has more details.

Defense contractors should pay close attention to a couple of days-old developments. First, a long-needed update to the rule concerning payments to contractors who can't get into DoD facilities because of the coronavirus. Second, how the Pentagon spent its pandemic stimulus money - that's about to come into the crosshairs of the Defense inspector general. For commentary, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to Alan Chvotkin, the executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council.

They say no good deed goes unpunished, or at least unchallenged. Now reports are surfacing that maybe the government did not reach its annual small business contracting goals, as the Small Business Administration has boasted. My next guest wonders why we're still questioning data from the Federal Procurement Data System in the first place. Alan Chvotkin is executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council.

The pandemic has proven both scary and monotonous. And now the end of the federal fiscal year is only a month away so agencies and contractors alike can start to worry about the possibility of a partial government shutdown. For these and other concerns we check in with the executive vice president and general counsel of the Professional Services Council, Alan Chvotkin.

House and Senate conferees are working out differences in their respective versions of the National Defense Authorization Act for 2021. They've got a lot to iron out. Including a fresh raft of procurement laws. A few of those make sense, others probably should be scratched says my next guest. He's the executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council, Alan Chvotkin.

Preparing for wildfires and hurricanes during a pandemic LTG Laura Richardson (USA), Commander of United States Army North (Fifth Army), discusses how the US Army North is working with FEMA on the coronavirus response while also preparing for the hurricane season that is beginning The National Defense Authorization Act and contractors Wesley Hallman, Senior Vice President of Strategy and Policy at the National Defense Industrial Association, and Alan Chvotkin, Executive VP & Counsel at the Professional Services Council, provide takeaways from the House and Senate versions of the National Defense Authorization Act Reconciling the House and Senate versions of the NDAA Lauren Williams, Staff Writer at FCW, and Scott Maucione, Defense Reporter at Federal News Network, examine the House and Senate versions of the National Defense Authorization Act and differences between the two

The National Defense Authorization Act is the most visible thing on which Congress is making progress. But it's not the only thing. Intelligence, the budget, and several procurement issues are of big concern to contractors. Joining the Federal Drive with his list, the executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council, Alan Chvotkin.

The Defense Department is mulling comments from industry on paying contractors forced to not work. DOD is developing policy for carrying out a section in the Cares Act, which covered reimbursement for lost pay from the pandemic. Today on the Federal Drive with what the services contractor industry told DOD the executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council, Alan Chvotkin.

The good new for contractors is that the government is operating at full pace. Spending on contracts is up a little. The bad news is that the government is operating at full pace. Since the end of March, agencies have pumped out dozens of new rules. For a roundup and the effect it's all having, the executive president and counsel at the Professional Services Council, Alan Chvotkin.

With large numbers of federal employees forced into telework, the contractor community has been working with agency leadership and Congress so their companies and customer agencies can keep going. For a progress report, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to the executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Counsel, Alan Chvotkin.

Remember the N-1 virus? How about ebola? Now that the corona virus is the big scare du jour, federal contractors are reworking some time proven plans for dealing with a government that might itself be in crisis. With more, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke to the Professional Services Council's executive vice president and counsel Alan Chvotkin.

Contractors had their doubts when the General Services Administration sun-setted FedBizOpps, the dated web site where agencies listed federal opportunities. The General Services Administration replaced it with a system called Beta.Sam.gov. According to Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council, contractors are finding the new system isn't much better than the old, and in some ways worse. Here more on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

The world of federal contracting is never static. In fact, just before new year the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs launched a rule-making gambit to clarify the existing rules having to do with resolving cases of alleged discrimination. The executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council, Alan Chvotkin, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for some of the details.

Defense contractors have to keep their eyes and ears open this week. There are new rules for cybersecurity, a new rule on Chinese telecom equipment, and a loaded-up National Defense Authorization Act chock full of contractor provisions. The Executive Vice President and counsel at the Professional Services Council, Alan Chvotkin, joined Federal Drive Tom Temin for a rundown of what's to come.

Congress is about to stretch the continuing resolution for a little while longer. Then what? With a Capitol Hill seemingly paralyzed by impeachment zeal, what about the needs of, well, federal agencies who want to do work for the public? To offer worst-case scenarios preparation advice, the executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council, Alan Chvotkin, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

Jim Williams, former acting GSA administrator and partner at Schambach & Williams Consulting, discusses Amazon’s high-profile protest of the JEDI award, and what it means for cloud contracting. Deborah Lee James, former secretary of the Air Force, gives insight on the Air Force’s joint all domain command and control network efforts, and the mission to bridge communication gaps. Alan Chvotkin, executive VP and counsel at the Professional Services Council, discusses how contractors can better prepare for a shutdown, and the impact the previous government shutdown had on companies.

The Defense Department is out with its first department-wide intellectual property strategy. The instruction, released last week, leaves a lot of details still to be addressed. But among other things, it aims to build intellectual property expertise throughout the acquisition workforce, mandates that every acquisition program start its life with an intellectual property strategy, and builds a centralized “cadre” of experts to help program managers with IP issues. Alan Chvotkin is executive vice president at the Professional Services Council. He talked with the show about the new IP strategy and how it will impact contractors.

Alan Chvotkin, executive VP & counsel at the Professional Services Council, discusses the state of conferencing the National Defense Authorization Act, and the impact a late NDAA would have on contracting. Eric Crusius, partner at Holland & Knight, outlines the Pentagon’s new certification for technology contractors, and the questions that still need to be answered before implementation. Service to America Medal winner Ryan Shelby, diplomatic attaché and Foreign Service Officer at USAID, recaps his work building hurricane resistant homes in Haiti.

Federal contractors are happy to see two procurement rule changes, one for civilian agencies and one for defense. They sharply limit the government's use of lowest-priced, technically-acceptable deals in services acquisitions. Both changes were mandated by law, but they took a while. Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for his take.

With cybersecurity among the top national security concerns, the Pentagon has been pushing for greater cybersecurity in its supply chain — all 300,000 companies in it. Now it's unveiled what it calls a cybersecurity maturity model certification standard. Executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council Alan Chvotkin joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for more on how one corner of the contractor world views this development.

The federal government has been operating without a Senate-confirmed administrator in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy for two and a half years now. But no more — before their departure for the August recess, Senators approved Michael Wooten to lead OFPP. To talk more about what the confirmation means and some of the issues Wooten is likely to face in the new job, Federal Drive with Tom Temin was joined by Alan Chvotkin, the executive vice president of the Professional Services Council.

The Defense Department has been pursuing several ways of getting its contractors up to snuff on cybersecurity. The latest initiative is something called the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification. Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel of the Professional Services Council, joined Federal Drive with details.

Congress has been moving steadily to complete work on Defense authorization for 2020. Now the Senate has cleared its version. Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for the reaction from the contractor side.

Alan Chvotkin, executive VP & counsel at the Professional Services Council, discusses what makes for a successful bid protest, and the potential for contractor back pay after shutdowns. Steve Orrin, federal chief technology officer at Intel, discusses the history and future of the government’s strategic computing efforts. Sammies finalist Kara De Castro, management analyst at NNSA, discusses how her work has made nuclear facilities around the world more secure.

Artificial intelligence is like the seeker in hide-and-seek. It's coming, ready or not. Agencies have a lot to balance when it comes to AI. Now they've got some guidance based on research by the Professional Services Council.The Council's executive Vice President Alan Chvotkin joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for the highlights.

Diana Maurer, director of Defense Capabilities & Management at GAO, discusses how the Pentagon's AT&L reorganization impacted their anti-corrosion efforts. Rick Berger, research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, discusses the current state of the military appropriations bills in Congress. Alan Chvotkin, Executive VP & Counsel at the Professional Services Council, discusses the AI Initiative Act, and what artificial intelligence can do for agencies.

As part of this year's Defense Authorization Bill, Congress told the Defense Department to speed up its payments to small contractors. The new deadline is 15 days. And a piece of newly-introduced legislation would make that timeline the rule across the rest of the government, down from the current 30-day benchmark. Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president at the Professional Services Council, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk about what the accelerated payments would mean for contractors.

A simple change in the law regarding small business subcontracting has bloomed into a six-year saga, a festival of stop and start rule-making. The government can't seem to get out of its own way and contractors are scratching their heads. Alan Chvotkin, the Professional Services Council's executive vice president and counsel, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to sort it all out.

Alan Chvotkin, executive VP & counsel at the Professional Services Council, discusses two bid protest cases, and what they mean for the future of contract-writing at agencies. Robert Bigman, former chief information security officer at the Central Intelligence Agency, discusses how to scale the Federal Cyber Reskilling Academy, and what it means for reducing the federal tech talent shortage. Todd Harrison, director of the Aerospace Security Project at CSIS, discusses the debate in Congress about how the military’s space administration will work with a “Space Force.”

Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council, gives his initial analysis of the FY20 budget request and what impact it will have on contractors. Scott Maucione, defense reporter at Federal News Network, discusses the Air Force’s plan for future business practices, and the “Shark Tank” pitch model that the service is testing. Marjorie Censer, editor of Inside Defense, is joining Government Matters as a fill in host. Francis sat down with to discuss her experiences covering the federal government, and what stories she is following right now.

A low level debate is rumbling within the Defense Department and with its contractors having to do with progress and performance based payments. Services contractors see the need for some change but urge the department to go carefully. Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to explain why it matters.

Tens of thousands of government contractors are out of work and their employers are losing millions in revenue because of the partial government shutdown. Alan Chvotkin of the Professional Services Council,  a contractor trade association, says his group is lobbying Congress to pay contractors for their missed work, as it has already agreed to do for furloughed civil servants. And Roll Call Senior Senate Reporter Niels Lesniewski says that the impasse on Capitol Hill over government funding is showing no signs of resolution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The partial government shutdown is costing federal civilian contractors millions of dollars per day. Are they paying their employees? Are they planning to pay them back when government funding is resolved? Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council., joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin in the studio for some answers.

With calendar year 2018 nearly in the history books, we take a brief look back at highlights and lessons learned from a federal contracting point of view. We also looked at what contractors are hoping for in the remaining days. Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss.

Congress fixes things in the one way it can — by passing laws. But in the real world of uber-government, nothing happens until an agency writes a rule to implement the law. Sometimes it takes them months or years to get around to it. Such is the case on rulemaking related to lowest prices, technically acceptable (LPTA) Defense Department contracts. Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin on Federal News Network to talk about what's starting to annoy industry.

For months contractors have been looking for ways to help agencies deal with the latest President's Management Agenda. Now another agenda is out: The 2019 regulatory agenda. Contractors are going to have to deal with that one, also. Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for highlights of what's in store.

The Homeland Security Department wants to experiment with new ways to do procurement. It started a procurement innovation lab which hosted workshops for the contractor associations. For a review of the lab, Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

The most recent federal spending data show agencies are unlikely to use all of their appropriated money by the end of the fiscal year, Sept. 30th. There is just not enough time, and Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Counsel, spoke on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the implications.

This week, Robert and Francis sit down with Alan Chvotkin, Executive Vice President & Counsel of the Professional Services Council (PSC) and Eric Heffernan, Principal at Grant Thornton Public Sector to discuss the trends and findings of their 9th biennial acquisition policy survey. The survey will be released this Wednesday, July 18th at the PSC's Acquisition Conference in Washington DC. PSC Acquisition Conference: https://www.pscouncil.org/AcquisitionConference About FedHeads FedHeads are Robert Shea and Francis Rose, who love to talk about the arcana of government management and the people who are trying to make it better. They don't have t-shirts yet, but are open to ideas. If government is your bag, you've got to listen to 'em. They're the FedHeads.

The House and Senate are about to reconcile their National Defense Authorization Acts for 2019 and the House has gone ahead and approved a defense appropriations bill. Things are moving fast as summer rolls on and mid-term elections near. Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin with an industry view.

Last week, the Trump administration issued an executive order dealing with information technology. It purported to give chief information officers more authority and more access to agency heads. Will it really change anything? For one view, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turns to Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council.

One agency decides to get rid of contracts and send the money down the grants channel. A member of Congress proposed closing seven Defense Department agencies. And $7 billion worth of contracts would go with them. It is enough to make a self-respecting contractor's head spin. The very undizzy, clear-thinking Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for more discussion.

Now that Congress and the White House have agreed on a budget for the rest of 2018, contractors must figure out how to deal with a year's worth of demand in six months. Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk about how it looks to services contractors.

Given the great national debates going on, some words sound arcane. Administrative lead time. Order level material. For federal contractors, abstract as those words may be, they signal new and very real regulations. Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin on Federal News Radio to give updates on what might be ahead.

It may be a calendar new year, but federal agencies are still working off last year's budget levels thanks to a third continuing resolution. That's a concern to some federal contractors, as are some new procurement rules taking effect. Alan Chvotkin, Executive Vice President and Counsel at the Professional Services Council, told Federal Drive with Tom Temin the procurement and acquisitions environment has some new tensions in it.

Federal agencies trying to know what's going on in technology are using requests for information and so-called reverse industry days more and more. The communication can be good, but RFIs and live participation can be costly for contractors. Alan Chvotkin, counsel and executive vice president of the Professional Services Council, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on this trend.

Both the civilian and defense sides of the government are seeing procurement reforms launched by both the administration and Congress. Where is it all heading? Hundreds of vendors and government managers explored that topic last week. Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council gives a recap on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

The growing backlog of cost audits at the Defense Contract Audit Agency is delaying contract closeouts. And not just for the Defense Department but for several other agencies that use DCAA. The result is that contractors wait for two years or longer to get their final 5- or 10-percent. Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin why this is not just an academic curiosity.

Last week was filled with developments affecting federal contractors, including progress, if you can call it that, on the budget front, people moving closer to key administration positions and fresh problems for background investigations. Alan Chvotkin, senior vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council, offers his take on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.