FedSources & PCI: Government Contracting Teaming Agreements Seminar

Government Contracting Teaming Agreements Seminar

This intensive one-day course provides an overview of teaming agreements, discusses how they differ from subcontractor relationships, and identifies both legal and policy considerations. The course also provides tips on drafting a successful teaming agreement, including provisions relating to scope, resolution disputes, and protections for proprietary information.

You’ll learn to:

Draft a teaming agreement that achieves your business objectives
Identify the key regulatory and policy requirements that teaming agreements must satisfy in order to be recognized by the U.S. Government
Protect proprietary and confidential data as part of the teaming relationship

Presented by:

David S. Gallacher

Associate, Sheppard Mullin

When:

Monday, March 28, 2011
8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Where:

FedSources
8400 Westpark Drive
10th Floor
McLean, VA 22102
(703) 610-8700

Price:

Clients: $550
Non- Clients: $695

Agenda
8:00 - 8:30 am	Registration and Breakfast
8:30 - 9:00 am	Introduction - The Teaming Relationship Basic Considerations in preparing a teaming agreement
9:00 - 12:00 pm	Reasons for Teaming, Laws Relating to Teaming Agreements, Customizing your Teaming Agreement, What are the Intended Effects, Government Rights, Structuring the Relationship, Non-Disclosure Agreements and Protecting Technical Data, Exclusive vs. Non-Exclusive Teaming Agreements, Cost Issues, Anti-Trust Concerns
12:00 - 1:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 - 4:00 pm	Drafting Your Teaming Agreement: Key Rules, Key Definitions, The Parties, The Program, The Procurement, Covered Technical Data, Scope of Work, Allocation of Responsibility, Executing the Subcontract, Jointly Developed Technology Termination, Default, Disputes
4:00 pm	Adjourn

Sponsors:

Speaker and Presenter Information

David S. Gallacher is an associate in the Government Contracts and Regulated Industries Practice Group of Sheppard Mullin's Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Gallacher's practice involves counseling companies - both large and small, in the defense and civilian markets, doing business in both the U.S. and international markets - with regard to the complexities of federal procurement laws and the difficulties inherent in doing business with the U.S. Government. He has extensive counseling experience on a wide range of issues including, among other things, country of origin preferences, export controls, teaming agreements, subcontractor flowdown requirements, prime/subcontractor relationships, cost accounting, and suspension and debarment. He also has broad based litigation experience relating to defending False Claims Act cases in the U.S. District Courts, prosecuting claims before the Boards of Contract Appeals, pursuing bid protests before the GAO, and litigating in numerous other administrative settings. He regularly assists companies by conducting internal reviews relating any number of federal compliance issues, allowing companies to implement internal controls as well as assisting companies in making disclosures to the appropriate government authorities, when appropriate. In 2007, he successfully arbitrated a dispute between two prominent government contractors relating to the validity and interpretation of a teaming agreement and its proprietary data provisions. He is a prolific writer and can be followed at http://www.governmentcontractslawblog.com.