Morrison Foerster’s Government Contracts Insights provides our in-depth analysis of developments and trends impacting government contracting. Through Insights, our attorneys offer a real-time assessment of the statutory, regulatory, legal, and business-related developments and trends that are shaping the industry. We also examine a full array of non-U.S. public procurement issues, mindful that our clients compete in a global marketplace.Morrison Foerster’s nationally recognized Government Contracts and Public Procurement practice represents the world’s leading companies in the aerospace and defense, intelligence, cybersecurity, information technology, financial and professional services, education, healthcare, infrastructure, and logistics support sectors. We are enlisted to address our clients’ most complex and important legal issues. Our work includes contract and subcontract negotiation and other transactional matters, business and regulatory compliance counseling, internal investigations, bid protests, and a wide array of enforcement and litigation matters. Our clients range from Fortune 50 companies to small and medium-sized companies just entering the public sector. We advise both U.S. and non-U.S. companies involved in municipal, state, federal, and non-U.S. procurement matters.<h2>ABOUT MORRISON FOERSTER</h2>Morrison Foerster is a leading global law firm that transforms complexity into advantage for its clients. Our clients include some of the largest financial institutions, banks, consulting and accounting firms, and Fortune 100, technology, and life sciences companies. Highlighting the firm’s commitment to client service, leadership in market-changing deals and impact litigation, and values-based culture, Morrison Foerster has been repeatedly recognized as one of the top 10 firms on The American Lawyer’s A-List. Year after year, the firm receives significant recognition from Chambers and The Legal 500 across their various guides, including Global, USA, Asia‑Pacific, Europe, UK, Latin America, and FinTech Legal. Our lawyers passionately care about delivering legal excellence while living our values. Morrison Foerster has a long-standing commitment to creating a culture that respects and celebrates differences, while providing an inclusive environment. The firm has achieved Mansfield Certification Plus since 2018 as a result of successfully reaching at least 30 percent women, communities of color, and LGBTQ+ lawyer representation in a notable number of current leadership roles and committees. The firm also has a long history of commitment to the community and society through providing pro bono legal services, including litigating for civil rights and civil liberties, improving public education and fostering the wellbeing of children, advocating for veterans, promoting international human rights, enforcing the right to asylum, and safeguarding the environment.

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Tina is Co-chair of Morrison Foerster’s Government Contracts & Public Procurement practice. She represents a wide variety of government contractors including information technology, defense, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical companies, with a focus on general contract counseling and compliance, particularly concerning intellectual property, and cybersecurity matters and federal grant funding.Tina counsels contractors on compliance with federal, state and local acquisition and ethics regulations and with the evolving myriad of requirements pertaining to data security and cybersecurity. She has been involved with numerous internal investigations and compliance reviews, and with mandatory and voluntary disclosures to agencies, and litigation of False Claims Act matters.Tina routinely advises clients concerning:<ul><li>Prime-subcontractor relationships</li><li>Sources of supply and country of origin requirements</li><li>Price reductions and price reporting issues</li><li>Organizational conflicts of interest</li><li>Safeguarding of intellectual property and other proprietary interests</li><li>Licensing and data rights issues</li><li>Handling of classified materials and controlled unclassified information</li><li>Agency suspension and debarment proceedings</li></ul>She also assists clients with due diligence and other activities related to the acquisition of government contracting concerns, and with the drafting and negotiation of teaming agreements, subcontracts, licensing agreements, and cooperative research and development agreements. She also assists clients applying for federal grants (including SBIR and STTR agreements), and those who seek to obtain other transactional authority agreements, as well as those competing for state and local government work.Tina’s litigation experience includes government contracts claims litigation in federal courts and before boards of contract appeals, bid protests before the Government Accountability Office and the Court of Federal Claims, and complex disputes in federal courts, including civil fraud and False Claims Act litigation and reverse Freedom of Information Act litigation.Prior to joining Morrison Foerster, Tina worked at another large national firm and as a trial attorney in the Office of the General Counsel of the Navy, Navy Litigation Office.<h4>Representative Experience</h4><ul><li>Negotiation of largest CHIPS Act federal funding agreement between multinational semiconductor corporation and U.S. Department of Commerce.</li><li>Negotiated prime contract and major subcontracts related to the Department of Energy’s next generation supercomputer program, including extensive IP rights negotiations and negotiation of associated patent rights waivers.</li><li>Negotiated series of other transaction authority agreements with DARPA and associated subcontracts with more than a dozen research universities on behalf of a firm biotech client, including complex IP rights allocations and material transfer agreements.</li><li>Assist clients with FedRAMP authorization process and with development of license agreements for software products sold to federal, state and local government agencies.</li><li>Cyber incident response counseling to some of the largest companies and organizations impacted by security incidents.</li><li>Advises clients on Bayh-Dole reporting of inventions and IP strategies for contracts and grants.</li><li>Conducts due diligence for major government contract mergers and acquisitions.</li></ul>

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Tina is co-chair of Morrison Foerster’s Government Contracts & Public Procurement practice. She counsels a wide variety of government contractors on compliance with federal acquisition and ethics regulations. She drafts and negotiates contracts on their behalf and has been involved with numerous internal investigations and compliance reviews, and with bid protest, contract claims, and False Claims Act litigation. She also advises on M&A transactions involving government contractors.

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Jim Tucker is of counsel in Morrison Foerster’s Government Contracts and Public Procurement Practice Group and is based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office.Jim’s practice runs the gamut of litigation and counseling in federal procurement matters, with an emphasis on bid protests, Cost Accounting Standards disputes, and small business matters. He has represented both protesters and awardees in scores of protests before the Government Accountability Office, the Court of Federal Claims, and procuring agencies, in acquisitions ranging from small business procurements to multibillion-dollar contracts of global significance. His representative protest matters span the aerospace sector, the Intelligence Community, base operations and logistics, healthcare, nuclear and environmental work, and information technology and software acquisitions. His protests have included both classified and unclassified programs. In addition to prevailing in published decisions, Jim has also secured favorable corrective action on behalf of clients in a wide variety of protests that were resolved without a published decision.Jim’s work also focuses on disputes over cost allowability and compliance with the Cost Accounting Standards, and he has appeared before the Armed Services and Civilian Boards of Contract Appeals, in size and status protests before Small Business Administration (SBA) area offices, and appeals before the SBA Office of Hearings and Appeals. Jim regularly counsels clients on contract interpretation, organizational conflicts of interest, and small business compliance.Jim graduated with high honors from the George Washington University Law School, where he focused his studies on federal procurement law, was a member of the Law Review, and interned with the General Services Administration’s suspension and debarment office. Jim also holds a degree in theology magna cum laude from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and a bachelor’s degree in classical languages and literature summa cum laude from the University of Kentucky, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

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Jim Tucker is of counsel in Morrison Foerster’s Government Contracts and Public Procurement Practice Group and is based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Jim’s practice runs the gamut of litigation and counseling in federal procurement matters, with an emphasis on bid protests, Cost Accounting Standards disputes, and small business matters.

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<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;" class="videoWrapper"><iframe class="sticky-video" title="Meet Alex Ward, Government Contracts Practice Co-Chair" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/TkliwdSlTaQ?rel=0" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="1" title="iframe"></iframe></div>J. Alex Ward is co-chair of Morrison Foerster’s Government Contracts and Public Procurement group. His practice covers a full range of government contracts matters, including investigations, bid protests, claims, general litigation, corporate transactions, and counseling. Alex strives in all matters is to provide his clients the highest level of efficient and effective representation.Alex represents contractors in internal and external investigations, disclosures to the government, and qui tam litigation, with great success in reducing or eliminating his clients’ exposure through active engagement with the government. His work in this area includes obtaining numerous declinations and dismissals of False Claims Act cases in their earliest stages, sparing his clients the cost, risk, and exposure of litigation.He has also served as lead counsel in dozens of bid protests involving military and civilian agency procurements of a wide range of products and services, including all manner of pre- and post-award protests in the GAO, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and state tribunals, as well as appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and size protest appeals before the SBA’s Office of Hearings and Appeals.Alex handles all aspects of the claims process, from the initial assessment and drafting of requests for equitable adjustment through litigation in the Boards of Contract Appeals and the Court of Federal Claims. Alex’s practice also covers the full gamut of other controversies confronting government contractors, including prime-sub, teaming partner, employer-employee, competitor, and indemnification disputes. His litigation work also includes a wide variety of pro bono engagements, in which he has represented both individual and institutional clients in matters ranging from immigration and criminal defense to sustainable procurement and protection of the environment.Prior to joining the firm, Alex served in the U.S. Army as a commissioned officer and an Assistant to the General Counsel of the Army responsible for civil works and international matters, and as a clerk for judges on the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Armed Forces and the D.C. Circuit. He is a member of the Boards of the Morrison & Foerster Foundation and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and of Law360’s Government Contracts Editorial Board.

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How To Handle Intellectual Property Rights In OTs:  The Department of Defense is actively pursuing “Other Transactions” (OTs) instead of procurement contracts. This allows DOD and its contractors to avoid many of the most burdensome aspects of the procurement regulations.  But it also allows for even more confusion than usual about how to handle intellectual property rights, particularly rights in technical data and computer software, because there are no “standard” IP clauses for OTs.Jay DeVecchio has written a Briefing Paper, published by Thomson Reuters, that sorts out these issues and offers clear, practical advice.  With Thomson Reuters’ permission we have attached Jay’s paper, which we hope will assist you in your OT negotiations.Read Jay’s article <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://media2.mofo.com/v3/assets/blt5775cc69c999c255/bltefaca2a1a876415e/627317ca0d4d8e1d7f10f312/190701-dod-data-rights-ip-simplified.pdf">here</a>.

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Since the Department of Defense (DoD) and other federal agencies began implementing formal cybersecurity requirements for government contractors within the last few years, one lingering question on the minds of federal contractors and subcontractors has been:  “What happens if I do not comply?”  Firms, including ours, have counseled that breach of contract claims are possible, and cautioned against misrepresentations of compliance.  Now a federal district court has confirmed what has long been suspected, that failure to abide by contractual and regulatory cybersecurity requirements may lead to liability under the False Claims Act.In United States of America ex rel. Brian Markus v. Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc.,<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1">[1]</a> the relator, a former senior director of cybersecurity for the defendant, alleged that the company had entered into contracts with NASA and the DoD despite knowing it was not in full compliance with the contracts’ cybersecurity requirements.  The plaintiff’s False Claims Act allegations were based on two related legal theories – implied false certification and promissory fraud, also known as fraud in the inducement.  Citing the Supreme Court’s opinion in Universal Health Servs., Inc. v. United States ex rel. Escobar,<a href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2">[2]</a> the court characterized the first ground as an allegation that the company’s “failure to disclose noncompliance with material statutory, regulatory or contractual requirements makes those representations misleading half truths.”  As for the promissory fraud count, the court described liability as attaching “to each claim submitted to the government under a contract, when the contract . . . was originally obtained through false statements or fraudulent conduct.”Consistent with the general trend of post-Escobar case law, the company moved to dismiss the suit on the basis that the government’s actions and inactions demonstrated that the relator’s claims did not satisfy the False Claims Act’s materiality standard.  Prior to award of the contracts, the company had disclosed it did not comply with all parts of the applicable cybersecurity regulations, yet NASA and the DoD awarded the contracts to the company anyway.  For this reason, the company argued, any noncompliance was not material under the Escobar standard.  While the court acknowledged that the company may have disclosed some of its noncompliance, it held that the relator had met his burden of alleging with sufficient particularity that the company had made only partial disclosures.  The court opined that the government agencies might not have awarded the contracts at issue if they had been aware of the full extent of the company’s noncompliance.The court went on to reject the company’s second argument that the government’s decision to continue the contracts in question following the filing of relator’s complaint indicated acquiescence.  Instead, the court stated that the appropriate inquiry is whether the “alleged misrepresentations were material at the time the government entered into or made payments on the relevant contracts.”  The court also rejected the notion that the government’s failure to intervene in the False Claims Act case amounted to an assessment of the merits of the case in the company’s favor.  In addition, the court overruled the company’s claim that, because cybersecurity was not the central purpose of the NASA and DoD contracts (which pertained to missile defense and rocket engine technology), any noncompliance was immaterial.  Rather, the court held, the cybersecurity requirements were mandated via DoD and NASA acquisition regulations.  Noncompliance could have made the company ineligible to handle sensitive technical information and thus influenced the extent to which the company could perform the required work.The company’s final argument for dismissal described the frequent amendments to DoD cybersecurity regulations in the 2013-2015 timeframe, particularly the relaxation of requirements to ease burdens on industry.  Those changes, the company contended, meant that the government never actually expected full technical compliance with cybersecurity requirements.  The court disagreed, holding that “[e]ven if the government never expected full technical compliance, relator properly pleads that the extent to which a company was technically compliant still mattered to the government’s decision to enter into a contract.”In addition to embodying a narrow application of the Escobar materiality standard, the case drives home the reality that contractors and subcontractors that are subject to the government’s myriad cybersecurity requirements cannot take their compliance obligations lightly.  The Government Accountability Office has already affirmed that cybersecurity compliance can be a relevant factor in contract award.  See, e.g., Avosys Tech., Inc., B-415716.6 (July 30, 2018); Jardon and Howard Technologies, Inc., B-415330.3; B-415330.4 (May 24, 2018).  DoD and other agencies have also made it clear that they expect compliance with the safeguarding and network penetration requirements of their cybersecurity regulations.  For example, late last year, DoD issued guidance to clarify how it will communicate its cybersecurity expectations to contractors and assess their compliance with those expectations.  The White House’s recent National Cybersecurity Strategy document discusses the need to strengthen federal contractor cybersecurity.In short, cybersecurity is an issue that is not going away.  Government contractors and subcontractors that do not take immediate steps to assess and secure their IT systems may soon find themselves excluded from competitions, or at the wrong end of a False Claims Act lawsuit.  Given that penalties under the False Claims Act can include treble damages, which might apply to the full proceeds of a contract under a fraud in the inducement theory, the cost of not implementing cybersecurity protocols could far exceed the cost of compliance.<a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1">[1]</a> No. 2:15-CV-2245 WBS AC, 2019 WL 2024595 (E.D. Cal. May 8, 2019).<a href="#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2">[2]</a> 136 S. Ct. 1989 (2016).*David Allman is a Law Clerk in the Washington, D.C. office and is not admitted to the bar.

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Federal Court Confirms that Cybersecurity Gaps Can Form the Basis of False Claims Act Violations

Morrison & Foerster Government Contracts co-chair Alex Ward and associate Victoria Dalcourt Angle recently published an article in The Government Contractor, titled “<a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://media2.mofo.com/v3/assets/blt5775cc69c999c255/bltdc107bc777a4b3f5/627318da8e09542a15b7df63/190424-contracting-fog-war.pdf">Contracting in the Fog of War</a>.” An excerpt is provided below:<blockquote>The fog of war has long been known to cast its pall over military operations, but contractors feel its effects as well. Providing supplies and services to the military in war-torn corners of the world involves a great deal of risk. Armed conflicts can expose contractors to changing security requirements, the closure of border crossings, restrictions on access to military installations, and other events that impact the company’s bottom line.Contractors seeking to recover from the Government for increased costs due to these and other war risks can face an uphill battle. As the mixed results in the case law show, contractors can pursue a variety of legal theories when seeking payment for these costs. However, the Government also has a number of tools at its disposal, most notably the sovereign acts doctrine. The following case studies demonstrate that a contractor’s chances of recovery depend in large part on having the right factual situation—which can include making the right decisions as events unfold on the ground—and on selecting the appropriate legal strategy when it comes time to submit a claim.</blockquote>Read the rest of the article <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://media2.mofo.com/v3/assets/blt5775cc69c999c255/bltdc107bc777a4b3f5/627318da8e09542a15b7df63/190424-contracting-fog-war.pdf">here</a>.

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Tori Dalcourt Angle is an associate in the Government Contracts practice in Morrison Foerster’s Washington, D.C. office.
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Contracting in the Fog of War (The Government Contractor article)

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Morrison & Foerster Government Contracts co-chair Alex Ward and associate Victoria Dalcourt Angle recently published an article in The Government Contractor, ti

Contracting in the Fog of War (The Government Contractor article)

During next week’s <a rel="noopener" target="_blank" href="https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_contract_law/events_cle/25-fpi/">ABA Federal Procurement Institute</a>, March 13-16, 2019 in Annapolis, MD, three Morrison & Foerster Government Contracts attorneys will be participating. Partner Damien Specht will serve as one of the conference co-chairs. He is also co-chair of the ABA Public Contract Law Section Mergers and Acquisitions Committee and the ABA Small Business & Other Socioeconomic Programs Committee.On Thursday, March 14, at 8:30AM, Kevin Mullen, co-chair of the firm’s Government Contracts Group, will moderate the panel “The Impact of War on Claims Litigation: Two Decades of Case Developments.” The panelists will examine how nearly two decades of contingency war operations has impacted the Court of Federal Claims and Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals case precedent, and analyze the legal and practical implications of these court and board decisions for future contractor claims.Associate Sandeep Nandivada will be moderating a panel on the same day at 4PM, titled “Data Analytics/Artificial Intelligence—How These Tools Relate to a Government Contract Attorney’s Practice.” This panel will provide an overview of how data analytics, machine learning, and AI can assist lawyers and legal professionals in their practice, using public sector-focused case studies to explore how emerging technologies can assist with investigations, litigation and compliance.

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