Government Contract Record Retention Rules
FAR 4.703 lets you image your records and throw the paper away. It also says you must keep the originals for a minimum of one year after imaging, and that your indexing has to allow timely access. Most contractors do the first part. Record retention is the least interesting obligation a government contractor has and […]
Government Litigation Support Contractor
A contracting officer screens for three things before reading a word of your capability narrative: are you registered, what have you actually delivered, and can you be bought on the vehicle in front of them. Pro-Legal Services, Inc. is a government litigation support contractor based in Arlington, Virginia — a small business, minority-owned, registered and […]
Litigation Support Subcontractor for Primes
Search this and the first page is CACI and Lockheed Martin announcing prime awards, plus law firms explaining how teaming goes wrong. Nobody is writing for the prime who needs a sub. Primes do not subcontract litigation support because they want to. They subcontract it because a solicitation asks for a capability they do not […]
Government Document Digitization at Scale
800,000 pages, one month ahead of schedule, 28 percent under budget. That sentence is the whole pitch, and it is why this page leads with it instead of a scanner specification. Government document digitization is bought on two things: whether the indexing will be right, and whether the schedule will hold. Image quality is table […]
Small Business Litigation Support Vendor
Every agency has a small business participation goal and a small business specialist whose job is to find vendors who can actually perform. The hard part of that job is not finding small businesses. It is finding ones with past performance. Pro-Legal Services, Inc. is a small business and minority-owned litigation support vendor in Arlington, […]
State and Local Government Litigation Support
A county attorney’s office and a federal agency buy the same services under completely different rules, on completely different money, with completely different public-records exposure. Treating them as one market is how vendors lose both. State and local government litigation support is a separate market from federal work, and the differences are procedural rather than […]