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Firm News | 2 min read | 05.23.24

Crowell Attorneys Honored With 2024 Burton Award for Distinguished Legal Writing

The Burton Awards honored Crowell & Moring partners Jason Crawford, Olivia Lynch, and Brian Tully McLaughlin with Law360’s Distinguished Legal Writing Award for their article on the future of enforcement actions focused on pandemic relief fraud. The award was presented at a gala reception at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. on Monday, May 20.

Firm News | 1 min read | 02.10.21

DEAL NOTE: Crowell & Moring Represents Kountable in Series A-1 Financing Lead by Lateral Capital

San Francisco – February 10, 2021: Crowell & Moring advised Kountable Inc., the leading global trade and technology platform, in connection with its Series A-1 financing lead by Lateral Capital. Kountable secured this round of funding as part of its efforts to expand its U.S. presence and widen its COVID response to further support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The Kountable platform operates as the necessary missing element that gets critical goods delivered in difficult market conditions. For the past five years, Kountable has activated the capability of SMEs through is curated execution network to efficiently complete large scale projects for governments, foundations, NGOs, and corporations that have had a positive impact on millions of lives. Kountable has solved the challenges of collaboration between critical but overlooked SMEs who play a key role in the success of vast swaths of global trade activity, global multinational suppliers, funders, and logistics and trade services providers.
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Firm News | 8 min read | 01.04.21

Crowell & Moring Elects Nine New Partners and Promotes 18 to Counsel Positions

Washington – January 4, 2021: Crowell & Moring elected nine lawyers to the firm’s partnership, effective January 1, 2021. The firm also promoted 18 associates to the position of counsel. The new partners have been promoted from within the ranks of the firm’s Washington, Los Angeles, and New York offices and from across several practice groups, including Advertising & Media, Environment & Natural Resources, Litigation, International Trade, Antitrust & Competition, Government Contracts, and Intellectual Property.
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Client Alerts 105 results

Client Alert | 3 min read | 09.11.24

“Et ‘two,’ GAO?”: Recent Sustain on the Rule of Two Reminds Agencies of the Importance of Accurate Market Research

For the first time in nearly a decade, GAO in Knudsen Systems, Inc. sustained a protest challenging an agency’s decision to set aside a procurement for small businesses.  The decision involves the so-called “Rule of Two”:  under FAR 19.502-2(b), agencies must set aside for small businesses a procurement with an anticipated dollar value of more than $150,000 where the agency’s market research demonstrates there is a reasonable expectation at least two responsible small business offerors can meet the agency’s requirements at a fair market price.
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Client Alert | 3 min read | 09.04.24

California Dental Offices Settle FCA Allegations Regarding Second-Draw PPP Loans for $6.3M

On August 8, 2024, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California announced a $6.3 million False Claims Act settlement with West Coast Dental Administrative Services LLC (formerly West Coast Dental Services Inc.) and its founders and former owners due to seven improper second-draw Paycheck Protection Program loans received by West Coast Dental and affiliated dental offices. 
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Client Alert | 4 min read | 09.03.24

FCA Complaint Based on PPP Information Pulled from PandemicOversight.gov Website Barred

On August 5, 2024, in United States ex rel. Relator LLC v. Howard D. Kootstra and Golden Empire Mortgage, Inc., Case No. 1:22-cv-00924-TLN-CDB (E.D. Cal.), the District Court for the Eastern District of California granted a motion to dismiss allegations that a mortgage lender made false or fraudulent statements on its Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) application in violation of the False Claims Act where the relator could not overcome the FCA’s public disclosure bar.
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Press Coverage 6 results

Publications 18 results

Publication | 03.2024 - 04.2024

New Guidance On Joint Venture Classified Information Access Determinations

The Journal Of Federal Agency Action

Events 3 results

Event | 04.07.20, 11:00 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT

Paycheck Protection Program Essentials: Current Tripwires, Guidance, and Lessons Learned in the Sprint to Apply for Loans

On Tuesday, April 5, 2020 at 3 p.m. Eastern, Ken Dodds of Live Oak Bank, a leading SBA lender, will join Crowell & Moring attorneys and policy advisors in a webinar addressing the CARES Act’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).  Just over a week after the creation of this lifeline small business loan platform, the webinar will address updates to program eligibility, the current SBA Form 2483 borrower application, and loan calculations and forgiveness based on the SBA’s interim final rules and guidance that have been issued in the past week. 
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Event | 11.06.19, 3:00 AM EST - 5:00 AM EST

Government Contracts Breakfast Series: Legal Landmines in Proposal Drafting

Crowell & Moring is pleased to announce the next installment of our Government Contracts Breakfast Series. All of the sessions will be held in Northern Virginia and focus on issues most important to government contractors. Our next sessions are described below.
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Event | 09.19.13, 12:00 AM UTC - 12:00 AM UTC

Federal Publications - Bid Protests: Practice, Procedure and Strategy

This workshop will explain the key advance-planning, decision-making, litigation, and litigation avoidance practice pointers for bid protests before an agency, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
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Webinars 29 results

Webinar | 09.11.24, 12:00 PM EDT - 1:00 PM EDT

Bid Protests: Common Contractor Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

In this webinar, experienced bid protest practitioners, Amy O’Sullivan, Anuj Vohra, Olivia Lynch, and Cherie Owen discuss some of the most common mistakes contractors make with respect to the bid protest process, and how to avoid them

Webinar | 09.09.24 - 10.16.24

Updates on Developments in Various Small Business Topics for Federal Procurement

Updates on Developments in Various Small Business Topics for Federal Procurement 

Webinar | 01.18.24, 1:00 PM EST - 2:00 PM EST

The FY 2024 National Defense Authorization Act: Key Provisions for Government Contractors

Crowell & Moring’s Government Contracts Group invites government contractors to a webinar in which we address the most consequential sections of the FY 2024 National Defense Authorization Act. These include imposition of a new conflict of interest regime for government contractors with a connection to China, require government reporting to Congress on acquisition authorities and programs, and alter other processes and procedures to which government contractors are subject.

Speaking Engagements 64 results

Blog Posts 36 results

Blog Post | 06.16.23

GSA and SBA Move Forward with Plans to Establish an 8(a) MAS Pool in July 2023

Crowell & Moring’s Government Contracts Legal Forum

Podcasts 43 results

Podcast | 08.30.24

Special Edition of the Fastest 5 Minutes: SBA Proposed Rule to Update Various SBA Small Business Programs

This special edition covers the SBA’s August 2024 proposed rule to update and clarify various small business programs, and is hosted by Yuan Zhou and Olivia Lynch. Crowell & Moring's "Fastest 5 Minutes" is a biweekly podcast that provides a brief summary of significant government contracts legal and regulatory developments that no government contracts lawyer or executive should be without.
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Podcast | 10.25.23

All Things Protest: Updates to SBA’s Ostensible Subcontractor Rule

Crowell & Moring’s “All Things Protest” podcast keeps you up to date on major trends in bid protest litigation, key developments in high-profile cases, and best practices in state and federal procurement. In this episode, host Olivia Lynch discusses recent amendments to the Small Business Administration’s ostensible subcontractor rule and the potential implications these amendments have with respect to protests concerning the ostensible subcontractor rule.
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Podcast | 09.01.23

Fastest 5 Minutes: Commercial Solutions Opening, Bid Protests, 8(a) Program

This week's episode covers a new DFARS provision about Commercial Solutions Opening, a bid protest decision about timeliness, significant developments in the SBA’s 8(a) Business Development Program, and updates to the Davis-Bacon Act and Related Acts, and is hosted by Peter Eyre, Olivia Lynch, and Yuan Zhou. Crowell & Moring's "Fastest 5 Minutes" is a biweekly podcast that provides a brief summary of significant government contracts legal and regulatory developments that no government contracts lawyer or executive should be without.
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