Webinar taught by Ken Brody 

Award Decisions, Debriefs, and Avoiding Protests

Date: September 26, 2023

Time: 10 AM – 1 PM (EDT)

Registration: Virginia PTAC website

This class is designed for government contractor business owners, contracting personnel, general counsel and other professionals in the small business community. The webinar will focus on key provisions and crucial issues concerning Award Decisions, Debriefs, and Avoiding Protests.

Specific topics include:

• How to effectively use the debriefing process to defuse disagreements and avoid protests
• Myths and realities of the protest process (and how often the government really wins)
• How your business may be impacted and ways to protect your company and your customer’s interests
• Valid vs. weak grounds of protest plus practical alternatives
• Pre-award actions to consider avoiding being protested
• Understand the strict time requirements of the protest process – and the common forums where they are adjudicated
• Government Corrective actions
• What it means to “win” a protest

Virginia Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) affiliated with George Mason University. 

The Virginia PTAC is part of a nationwide program funded in part through a cooperative agreement with DOD, which provides free or nominally priced classes to businesses that want to learn about and participate in the government procurement process. The seminars are free classes.

The seminar will be taught by Ken Brody, a founding partner of the law firm of David, Brody and Dondershine, LLP, which is now known as Reston Law Group, LLP. Ken has over forty-three years of experience dealing with procurement issues, as a trial attorney with the Department of the Navy, and for the past 34 years in private practice. His practice focuses on representing government contractors, particularly small businesses, on all aspects of government contracting, including negotiating agreements, regulatory requirements, the small business programs, bid protests and litigating contract disputes. He also teaches classes for Virginia PTAC on Teaming and Subcontracting and on the Government-wide Mentor-Protégé Program.