Obama: Boon to the contract attorney industry?

As reported extensively in the media and the countless press releases by federal contracting companies, the Obama administration’s anticipated stimulus package could generate billions in federal contracting opportunities.  The package is likely to provide funds to the General Services Administration, military and other agencies overseeing government buildings to implement green technologies; offer grants to states for road and bridge construction; furnish funding to health care providers to switch from paper to electronic medical records; expand the work of a multitude of government agences, etc., etc.

We’ll leave to the political blogs and pundits whether the stimulus package will have the necessary transformative affect on the economy.

More importantly for contract attorneys is that this will afford a stream of work through various government contracting companies (including several contract attorney staffing agencies) that have been staffing and will continue to staff projects requiring temporary legal work.  This is work well beyond TARP related and credit crisis work.

But we’ve seen an emormous increase in such postings on the FBO (Federal Business Opportunity) website and on the multitude of agency websites soliciting vendors.  We have been posting more and more of these jobs on the various Posse List listservs.  For a full list of our job listservs click here.

And we have seen a surge in government contracting companies who have been subscribing to our lists, and asking us for specialized contract attorneys.  We have been contacting these companies for more information.

From formation through administration, contracting with the federal government is a highly regulated process.  Posse List staff will be attending the various Federal contracting workshops in D.C. and around the country that will start in February and March.  These workshops explain the method or process an agency must use to solicit a contract, how the agency negotiates or awards a contract; etc. 

In the meantime we’ll continue to collect and post information on federal government work and jobs.  For all articles and information we have so far click here.