Public-Private Partnerships

Our public procurement and grant lawyers have decades of experience representing public and private companies—including national and multi-national businesses, start-ups, quasi-public entities and interstate compacts—on litigation and counseling matters covering the myriad issues related to federal, state and local procurements and grants, from solicitation preparation and proposal evaluation; to contract formation and negotiation; to creation and implementation of compliance programs; to bid protests and contract performance disputes; to audits, investigations and allegations of fraud, waste and abuse—and more.

With respect to public companies, our attorneys have counseled on all aspects: of the design and implementation of procurement, accounting, auditing, and compliance systems relating to expenditure of grant funds for disaster response and hazard mitigation under a unique public private partnership arrangement created by state statute to enhance operations through the use of the private sector to operate and maintain a state-owned utility; and of responding to a request for proposals for a public private partnership agreement to operate and maintain the transmission and distribution system for a major U.S. territory.

With respect to quasi-public entities and interstate compacts, our attorneys have counseled on the creation and implementation of procurement systems, including solicitation preparation and evaluation, bid protest processes, codes of conduct, contract administration, and suspension and debarment proceedings, including systems that incorporate the rules applicable to the use of federal grant funds.