William T. Kirkwood
Of Counsel
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William is a creative, entrepreneurial, and results-driven attorney with a wealth of hands-on experience in all aspects of government contracting. He has a strong corporate background and has advised leading defense contractors on federal, state, and international contracts and programs.
Key Matters
Some of the experience represented below may have been handled at a previous firm.
- Counseled recipient of DOE grant for construction of a battery materials processing and manufacturing facility to develop and implement compliance program
- Advised recipient of DOE loan for construction of a lithium battery recycling plan facility to develop a Davis-Bacon Act compliance program, including managing flow-down requirements to general contractor and subcontractors
- Assisted multiple non-profit state and federal grant recipients with developing subrecipient and subcontractor template agreements, including regulatory and contractual flow-down requirements
- Advise semiconductor manufacturing company on compliance with potential requirements under a grant awarded through the CHIPS Act
- Advised large telecom trade association on compliance with Build America Buy America Act requirements under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
- Advised global engineering company on compliance with US federal grant regulations
- Advised global energy company on compliance with US federal grant regulations, development of policies and compliance training for a DOE grant
- Assisted global manufacturer of data network management software with the negotiation of favorable subcontracting and licensing terms
- Provided counsel to multiple clients on the requirements of the NISPOM, DCSA procedures, and requirements for obtaining facility and personnel security clearances
- Litigated various high-dollar matters at the ASBCA and CBCA
- Provided assistance relating to a mandatory disclosure and subsequent resolution of a Department of Defense Office of Inspector General and U.S. Department of Justice investigation
- Represented large managed care organization (MCO) in successful bid protest and defended against multiple bid protests at the District of Columbia Contract Appeals Board (DC CAB) allowing MCO to obtain a 5-year contract award worth US$8.83B
- Defended MCO in multiple proceedings at the Superior Court for the District of Columbia, resulting in the denial of request for preliminary injunction and expedited hearings
- Obtained post-award corrective action by civilian agency resulting from GAO bid protest for a contract valued over US$300M
- Represented a software company in a US$800M merger
- Successfully challenged the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s failure to properly evaluate actual risks posed by a software company’s competitor in a solicitation valued at well over US$100M
- Obtained a complete victory for a software company, helping company retain a US$115M government contract
- Successfully submitted a post-award bid protest on behalf of a software company arguing that the Agency performed an unreasonable cost-realism analysis
- Secured opportunity to compete for a US$300M Air Force contract for an American private military contractor
- Successfully protested the award of a Department of Health and Human Services contract after a business management consulting company was not selected for award of the contract
- Successfully protested unreasonable solicitation requirements related to national security for a multi-billion-dollar opportunity.
- Numerous successful pre-and post-award bid protests on behalf of government contractors before the GAO
- Numerous successful bid protests before D.C. Contract Appeals Board against the Office of Contracting and Procurement (OCP)
- Prevailed in multiple, successive pre- and post-award bid protests before the DC Contract Appeals Board on behalf of a District of Columbia Managed Care Organization Insurer awarded the District’s Managed Care Medicaid Contract valued at more than US$8B over a five-year period
- Prosecution of state-level bid protests of Pennsylvania health care services Medicaid contract valued at more than US$800M
- Led and remediated compliance issues for a broad array of clients, including Silicon Valley firms, and a variety of multi-billion-dollar firms