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The second edition of Government Contracting: Promises and Perils picks up where the first edition’s mission left off: exposing fraud, incompetence, waste, and abuse (FIWA) and analyzing corruption, mismanagement, and ineptitude that defile government contracting. The first edition thoroughly outlined procurement throughout the contracting cycle including initial planning, contractor selection, contract administration, contract closeout, and auditing. This significantly revised new edition provides additional much-needed guidance on contracting documents, management tools, and processes for addressing negative influences on government contracting, including an improved approach to evaluati...
"The purpose of this manual is not to summarize all aspects of the law or to opine on what the law should be. Our purpose is also not to teach government contracts lawyers all they need to know about corporate law or, alternatively, to make corporate lawyers experts in government contracts. Instead, this guide is written to identify key transactional issues that arise in transactions involving government contractors across corporate, antitrust, political, foreign investment and other areas of law. Our goal is to provide audiences with targeted, and most importantly, useful advice from practitioners who have been involved in hundreds of transactions (often on opposite sides of each other). It is our hope that readers will learn from our hard-earned experience in the form of bold "Best Practice Tips" and this volume's highly structured, easy to reference format. Each page is designed to allow a reader to quickly grasp a key issue to readily deploy in their practice. This volume also includes detailed appendices and forms that will help practitioners to supplement their existing forms, gather key documents and perform comprehensive government contracts due diligence"--
The dramatic growth of government over the course of the twentieth century since the New Deal prompts concern among libertarians and conservatives and also among those who worry about government’s costs, efficiency, and quality of service. These concerns, combined with rising confidence in private markets, motivate the widespread shift of federal and state government work to private organizations. This shift typically alters only who performs the work, not who pays or is ultimately responsible for it. “Government by contract” now includes military intelligence, environmental monitoring, prison management, and interrogation of terrorism suspects. Outsourcing government work raises quest...
Reviews the use of contract consultants by federal agencies. Discusses a broad range of contract services obtained by the government, such as professional, administrative, and management support services. Charts and tables.