Subcontracting Summit: A Case Study Approach to Best Practices Virtual Class Series

Bill Walter

Bill is a Partner in Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP’s Government Contracting Consulting Services Group. Bill has over 25 years of experience helping companies identify and resolve issues associated with cost accounting and financial management systems. He has an extensive background in the application and interpretation of rules, regulations, and standards applicable to government contractors. Bill is also recognized for his extensive knowledge of the Federal Acquisition Regulation, individual agency supplements to the FAR, the Truth in Negotiations Act and the Cost Accounting Standards and his experience with real business issues, systems and solutions. Bill’s work includes helping clients understand the requirements associated with Federal contracting, developing and implementing pricing strategies, indirect cost allocation solutions, developing accounting, estimating, procurement, project management and integrated system requirements for clients in various field such as manufacturing, health care, construction, energy and service industries. Starting out his career as an auditor for the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA), Bill was responsible for evaluating contractor submissions to ensure that they were based on current, accurate, and complete information and were prepared according to appropriate regulations. While with DCAA, Bill was responsible for implementing micro-computers and training his fellow auditors and administrative staff to use major application software packages. Bill has developed and taught many courses on accounting and financial management of government contracts. He regularly presents to industry groups on current issues in the Federal procurement arena.

Tim Sullivan

Tim Sullivan is a Partner in the law firm of Thompson Coburn LLP, where he serves as the Chairman of the firm’s Government Contracts department.  A graduate of the University of Michigan and the Georgetown University Law Center, where he served as a member of the Georgetown Law Journal, Mr. Sullivan’s career began as a contract negotiator with the Central Intelligence Agency.  Since 1975, he has focused his law practice on Government contract matters.  Mr. Sullivan is member of the bars of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia, and he has been a member of the National Contract Management Association since 1975.  He is a frequent lecturer on Government contract matters and has authored several articles.

Isaias “Cy” Alba

Cy Alba counsels clients in a broad range of government contracting matters before government agencies and Federal courts that includes overall regulatory compliance with all of SBA’s Small Business programs. Mr. Alba represents small and mid-sized companies looking to structure compliant teaming, joint venture, and mentor-protégé agreements. He handles the prosecution and defense of small business size and status protests and appeals before SBA and OHA, as well as bid protests before GAO, COFC, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Mr. Alba’s work for the firm’s federal contractor clients also includes preparation, negotiation, and prosecution of Contract Dispute Act claims, Requests for Equitable Adjustments, termination for convenience settlements, defense of suspensions and debarments, the preparation of Organizational Conflict of Interest (“OCI”) mitigation plans and counseling related to OCI issues, as well as FAR/DFARS Data Rights issues, IP licensing, copyright, and trademark issues. Mr. Alba also counsels clients with complex corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, and equity and employee incentive plans, where small business and other federal regulations play a critical role in the transactions, especially in situations where the avoidance of affiliation or ongoing compliance with federal procurement rules are paramount.