Albert Krachman focuses his practice on federal and state government contracting, privatizations, and litigation.  Mr. Krachman advises a wide range of clients in areas such as:

• public contracts, including winning contracts and grants, mergers and acquisitions, increasing contract profitability and government market share, regulatory compliance and enforcement, subcontracting, bid protests, government and subcontractor claims, SBA compliance, performance-based contracting, suspensions, debarments, internal investigations, and whistle-blower and False Claims Act defenses
• government sectors, including information technology, service and supply contracting, energy, telecommunications, real estate, and healthcare services, as well as GSA Schedule, Homeland Security contracting, and A-76 competition issues
• government energy contracting, including commodity supply contracts; GSA area-wide contracts, utility service distribution contracts, energy asset sales, and service contracting
• construction law, including contract negotiation, resolution, or litigation of owner, subcontractor, and surety claims; terminations; and state and federal bond and lien litigation
• general commercial litigation, including litigation and arbitration of contract, employment, real estate, product liability, bankruptcy, trade secret, intellectual property, and business ownership disputes
• privatization, including military utilities and housing

Mr. Krachman is a co-author of the Homeland Security Law Handbook, and has recently published articles on military utility privatization, Small Business Act certification fraud, and information security.  He writes and lectures frequently on construction law and public contracts, and has presented numerous construction-related courses for the Construction Education Management Corporation sponsored by Engineering News Record and McGraw-Hill.  Mr. Krachman has served as a contributing editor on several publications, including Pricing of Claims: Cases and Materials on Federal Labor Standards, and Contracting for Services.

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

• Preserved award of 2B Department of Energy nuclear remediation contract over challenge by competitor.
• Negotiated the first 50 year government contract award for total privatization of military base utilities.
• Successfully modified numerous solicitations enhancing client's competitive position for award or negating competitive advantage of competition.
• Overturned multi-million dollar default termination at the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals.
• Successfully resolved suspension and debarment proceedings initiated against clients by numerous agencies including the Department of the Navy, Department of Army, Department of Agriculture. 

COMMUNITY SERVICE & AFFILIATIONS

Mr. Krachman has served in numerous professional and community organizations, including the Board of Zoning Appeals, the National Defense Industrial Association; the Industrial Development Authority of Falls Church, Virginia; the Economic Development Task Force of Falls Church, Virginia; and the Northern Virginia Technology Council.  He is a member of the Greater Washington Board of Trade and the National Contract Management Association.