Government Contracts Monitor

Hopewell Darneille to Speak at DYNET Conference

March 22, 2015

Hopewell Darneille, of the Firm’s Washington, D.C. office, will be a presenter at the sixth annual Dynamic Networking for Small Business (DYNET) Conference, a federal and prime contracting event in Fairmont, West Virginia, on April 2, 2015 at the Robert H. Mollohan Research Center.

Darneille will co-present a workshop on “Your Strategic Toolbox Update: Teaming, Joint Ventures, Subcontracting & Mentor-Protégé Agreements in Today’s Changing Procurement Environment,” with Melissa Loder, the principal Business Opportunity Specialist in the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) West Virginia District Office.

This workshop will include a discussion of the risks of affiliation, timing requirements and other critical issues in drafting agreements, and will include real-world examples addressed in recent SBA Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA), Government Accountability Office (GAO)  and Court cases.  Darneille and Loder also will cover recent regulatory developments, including SBA’s ongoing size standards changes, proposed implementation of statutory changes to the limitations on subcontracting rules, SBA’s new “Safe Harbor” rule, the new authorization of WOSB sole source set-asides, the proposed new universal mentor-protégé program and proposed changes to the current joint venture and affiliation rules.

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