When your most trusted subcontractor stops showing up on a Woodbridge project, the prime contractor still owes the owner a completed building. Shin Law Office helps Prince William County general contractors respond in the first 48 hours, terminate correctly, and recover what the default actually cost.
A first-person guide for naval federal contractor employees working at Naval Station Norfolk, NAS Norfolk, US Fleet Forces Command, US 2nd Fleet, Navy Region Mid-Atlantic, Coast Guard Atlantic Area HQ, and across the Hampton Roads naval shipbuilding and ship repair corridor who have seen fraud at Huntington Ingalls Industries, BAE Systems Norfolk Ship Repair, General Dynamics NASSCO, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Booz Allen, SAIC, Leidos, ManTech, CACI, KBR, or another Hampton Roads naval prime and are deciding whether to file a False Claims Act qui tam complaint in the Eastern District of Virginia, Norfolk Division.
A first-person guide for federal contractor employees working at Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipbuilding, NASA Langley Research Center, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Fort Eustis, and across the Newport News and Peninsula contractor corridor who have seen fraud at HII, NASA primes, JBLE-supporting contractors, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Booz Allen, SAIC, Leidos, ManTech, KBR, or another Newport News prime and are deciding whether to file a False Claims Act qui tam complaint in the Eastern District of Virginia, Newport News Division.
A first-person guide for federal contractor employees working at Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division, the Naval Ordnance Safety and Security Activity, and across the Charles County energetics and ordnance contractor footprint who have seen fraud at BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, Day & Zimmermann, KBR, General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems, L3Harris, Battelle, SAIC, Leidos, Booz Allen, CACI, ManTech, or another NSWC Indian Head prime and are deciding whether to file a False Claims Act qui tam complaint in the District of Maryland.
A first-person guide for federal contractor employees working at the National Institutes of Health (Rockville offices), the Food and Drug Administration White Oak campus in Silver Spring, the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission at White Flint, HHS Parklawn, and across the Montgomery County civilian agency contractor footprint who have seen fraud at Booz Allen, Leidos, SAIC, GDIT, ManTech, CACI, AECOM, Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Verizon, or a small-business 8(a) or SDVOSB pass-through prime and are deciding whether to file a False Claims Act qui tam complaint in the District of Maryland.
A first-person guide for biomedical and biological defense federal contractor employees working at Fort Detrick, USAMRIID, USAMRDC, USAMRICD, the NCI Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, the NIAID Integrated Research Facility, and across the Frederick County biomedical research contractor footprint who have seen fraud at Leidos Biomedical Research, Battelle, KBR, SAIC, Booz Allen, ManTech, GDIT, Charles River Labs, BioReliance, or another biomedical or biological defense prime and are deciding whether to file a False Claims Act qui tam complaint in the District of Maryland.
A first-person guide for federal contractor employees working at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters, the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, Naval District Washington, Air Force District Washington, and across the District of Columbia intelligence community and DOD contractor footprint who have seen fraud at Booz Allen, SAIC, Leidos, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, CACI, ManTech, GDIT, KBR, or another JBAB-supporting prime and are deciding whether to file a False Claims Act qui tam complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
A first-person guide for federal contractor employees working at GDIT Headquarters, Defense Health Agency Headquarters, BAE Systems Inc., and across the Fairfax County and Falls Church federal contractor corridor who have seen fraud at General Dynamics Information Technology, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, Booz Allen, SAIC, Leidos, ManTech, CACI, KBR, Lockheed Martin, or another Fairfax-Falls Church prime and are deciding whether to file a False Claims Act qui tam complaint in the Eastern District of Virginia.
A comprehensive Northern Virginia attorney's guide to small business set-aside compliance for federal contractors in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. Covers SBA size standards under 13 CFR 121, the 8(a) Business Development Program, HUBZone, SDVOSB, and WOSB / EDWOSB programs, affiliation rules under 13 CFR 121.103, size recertification triggers including the five-year rule, size protests at SBA Office of Hearings and Appeals, the Limitation on Subcontracting under FAR 52.219-14, the non-manufacturer rule, joint venture qualification under 13 CFR 125.8, mentor-protege agreements under 13 CFR 125.9, the ostensible subcontractor rule, and False Claims Act exposure from false small business representations.
A comprehensive Northern Virginia attorney's guide to subcontractor and prime/subcontractor disputes in federal contracting for primes and subs in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. Covers FAR Part 44 subcontract administration, consent-to-subcontract under FAR 52.244-2, mandatory and discretionary flow-down clauses, the Christian Doctrine, the Severin pass-through and sponsorship claim framework, teaming agreements and joint ventures, mentor-protege arrangements, payment disputes under the Prompt Payment Act and the pay-when-paid versus pay-if-paid distinction, subcontract termination, dispute resolution mechanisms, and the practical questions primes and subcontractors face when relationships go sideways.
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