SBA Joint Ventures
Why SBA Joint Ventures Make Sense Now More Than Ever:
The Small Business Administration ("SBA") expansion of joint venture to all regulated small business joint venture categories provides small businesses with the opportunity to pursue prime contract and subcontracting opportunities with additional resources enhancing its eligibility for larger awards. However, SBA regulated joint ventures involve a stronger combination of venturer companies that can add management disputes, performance and payment complications.
This program will discuss the range of approaches to marketing joint ventures to federal procuring agencies along with negotiation and contractual performance strategies with venture partners that can help increase your joint ventures competitiveness for award:
1. What are joint ventures and is our company ready for joint venture contracting opportunities?
2. During the market research phase did we successfully convince the procuring agency to consider joint ventures as a viable contract performance solution?
3. What is the lifecycle of a joint venture and can we anticipate greater profits via a joint venture relationship?
4. What are the control and compliance requirements along with any exceptions available to anti-affiliation regulations applicable to joint ventures?
5. How will the past performance of the joint venture along with the venture partners and subcontractors be assessed during past performance evaluations?
6. What risks can be anticipated by joint venture contracting and what if one of our venture partners cannot meet performance requirements?
7. Do minority venturers have any protections in the event of ceding management control of the joint venture to a majority venturer?
8. Strategies for developing relationships vetted, qualified, trusted partners across one or more small business categories that would enhance our pursuit of small business set-aside opportunities for which we would not otherwise qualify?
9. Strategies for marketing joint ventures to mentors, proteges, primes and small businesses along with the pros and cons for respective venture partners and how establishing joint venture relationships can reduce marketing expenditures while expanding the scope of contract award opportunities.
10. What are the benefits of a mentor-protégé joint venture relationships when pursuing large contracting opportunities and under what circumstances can a joint venture relationship result in our company exceeding the NAICS code assigned to the procurement?
11. How recent developments increase joint venture award opportunities along with certain new compliance requirements including, but not limited to:
- COVID-19 (Corona Virus)
- Small Business Runway Extension Act
- CMMC Compliance
- HUBZone Program Expansion
- "Best In Class" ("BIC") Spending
- GSA Schedule Consolidation
This program will help executives, corporate counsel and compliance officers of U.S. companies that are selling through the US (overseas) supply chain understand how best to proceed with approaches to pursuing contract opportunities with vetted, qualified joint venture teammates to enhance proposal eligibility and resource for contract award performance.
Speaker and Presenter Information
Jerry Alfonso Miles Esq.
BIOGRAPHY
Jerry Alfonso Miles assists companies in complying with federal acquisition regulations, mitigating proposal risks, protesting bids, defending against government investigations, completing mergers and acquisitions, responding to government auditors, and resolving prime and subcontractor disputes.
After working with the American Society of International Law (ASIL), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and a downtown law firm, Mr. Miles spent four years as corporate counsel for Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR), working on matters at the forefront of international and government contract law. Mr. Miles then worked at a large, regional law firm in that firm’s government contracting, international and construction practices.
That experience gives him a special perspective that brings added value to clients in the following areas: small business contracting, Department of Defense (“DoD”) and civilian contracting, technology contracting, construction contracting, and international contracting. He has considerable experience in transactional matters, including negotiating nondisclosure agreements (“NDA”), teaming agreements, subcontract terms, and facilitating mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Miles also assists clients with bid protests, requests for equitable adjust-ments; prime and subcontract claims; audit, compliance and investigation responses; and, litigation strategies.
As a past Chair of the Federal Bar Association’s Government Contracts Section and an active member of the international procurement bar, Mr. Miles regularly speaks on international procurement matters. He also involved in several charitable and philanthropic associations, including the American Heart Associations’ Pulse Lawyers Have Heart and McKissack’s ACE Mentor Program.
Mr. Miles received his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia, where he focused on international relations with an emphasis on the integration of European Union and Middle Eastern geopolitics. He received his juris doctor from William and Mary School of Law. When not looking for the next classic car show, Mr. Miles can be found “training” for his next 10k road race on the National Mall with his “AmStaff” Maci.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
▪ Federal Bar Association, Government Contracts Section: Past Chair
▪ American Bar Association, Contract Claims & Dispute Resolution Committee: Co-Chair
▪ American Bar Association, Battle Space & Contingency Contracting Committee: Vice Chair
▪ American Bar Association, International Law Section, International Procurement Committee: Co-Chair
▪ American Bar Association, Public Contract Section, Construction Division, Vice Chair
▪ American Bar Association, Bid Protest Committee, Vice Chair
▪ American Bar Association, Aerospace & Defense Committee: Vice Chair
▪ National Defense Industrial Association, Small Business Board
▪ Armed Forces Computer Electronics Association, Small Business Board
▪ Tech Council of Maryland, Government Contracting Committee
▪ National Contract Management Association, Potomac Chapter Board
JERRY ALFONSO MILES, ESQ. EDUCATION
▪ University of Virginia Bachelors, International Relations, 2004
▪ William and Mary, Juris Doctor, Law, 2007
PRACTICE AREAS
▪ Government Contracts
▪ Corporate Law
▪ Employment Law
▪ Technology Contracts
▪International Practice
▪ Construction Contracts
▪ Commercial Litigation
PAST EXPERIENCE
▪ Kellogg Brown & Root Inc. (“KBR”)
▪ Shulman Rogers, P.A.
BAR & COURT ADMISSIONS
▪ Maryland
▪ New York
▪ Maryland Federal District Court
▪ U.S. Court ofFederal Claims
▪ U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
▪ US Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit
INSTRUCTOR
Maryland Procurement Technical Assistance Program: Instructor
PUBLICATIONS
• “An Inside-Out Perspective: Conducting Construction Overseas,” American Bar Association, Annual Meeting Publication
• “Services Contracting Best Practices: A Guide to Successful Services Contracting,” American Bar Association, Services Contracting Best Practices Task Force
• “Have We Just Seen the Decade of Government Contracting: Looking Back as We Go Forward,” The Federal Bar Association’s Federal Lawyer Magazine
• ABA Comment Letter, Battle Space Committee Contributing Author, Re: Interim Final Rule, Private Security Contractors Operating in Contingency Environments
• ABA Comment Letter, Battle Space Committee Contributing Author, Re: Class Deviation, Additional Contractor Requirements and Responsibilities Relating to Alleged Crimes By or Against Contractor Personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan
Relevant Government Agencies
All
Event Type
Webcast
This event has no exhibitor/sponsor opportunities
When
Wed, Apr 22, 2020, 11:00am - 12:30pm
ET
Cost
| Attendee: | $149.00 |
Website
Click here to visit event website
Organizer
GovConectx
