So, You Want to Be a Federal Contractor?

Hot Topics and Strategies for Compliance and Risk Management

Hosted by NJMEP and Powered by Santomassimo Davis LLP – Outside General Counsel™ and Snyderman Law Group we encourage you to register for this webinar if you have ever considered being a Federal Contractor. The federal government encourages small businesses to take on contracting opportunities. The process to register as a federal contractor is more straight-forward than most people think.

We will be presenting ten segments during these two webinars that will run from 8am to 10am. The webinar series will cover the following topics on Federal Contracting:

• Becoming a Federal Contractor
  • How does the Government buy?
  • Types of Contracts
  • Intro to Cost Accounting
  • Building Rates
• Government Contracting Issues for Subcontractors
  • Strategies for reviewing and negotiating contracts with your customers
  • FARs and DFARs, and how they “flow down”
  • Outsourcing contract management
  • How to use templates effectively for your subcontractors
  • Biggest areas of exposure in contracts
• Export Controls Basics
  • Importance to U.S. national security
  • ITAR Registration Requirements
  • Export License Requirements for items with a military end-use/end-user
  • “600 Series” Export Administration Regulations (EARs)
  • Preventing unauthorized releases of technical data to foreign persons.
• Cybersecurity: One of the hottest topics for federal contractors
  • Auditing and gap analysis (Cybersaint)
• Employment Issues
  • Strategies to cope with COVID-19
  • Union avoidance strategies
  • Form I-9s
  • Affirmative Action Programs
  • Union avoidance
• OFCCP: Being prepared for the audit
  • Elements
  • How to prepare
• Tech transfer from federal laboratories
  • What is Tech Transfer?
  • How can it help industry?
• Procurement Technical Assistance Program (PTAC)
• The Compliance-and-Ethics Program: What it is, and why you need one
  • Mandatory vs. voluntary
  • Elements
  • Benefits
  • Risk assessment and evaluation
  • Outsourcing opportunities
• • Records retention and discovery preparation
  • Creating a business-friendly program
  • Documentation and the policy
  • Ideas and tools to motivate compliance
  • Outsourcing opportunities