Downtown Tampa and Brandon, Florida

Except in limited sole-source or emergency purchase, government must follow an established competitive purchasing procedure when it wants to enter into a contract for telephones, computers, software, personnel studies, insurance, management consultants, executive search firms, banking services; issue invitations to bid for commodities or construction; engage in design-build construction projects, or for anything else. As a result of my representation of local governments, I know the applicable issues involved in bidding procedure disputes.

I have extensive experience in drafting contracts for local governments and in competitive negotiation, and because I served on the Consultants' Competitive Negotiation Act selection committee for Hillsborough County while an assistant county attorney. Also, The Florida Bar's Florida Construction Law and Practice includes a chapter that I wrote titled Bids, Bid Disputes, and Competitive Negotiations Involving Public Entities, and I also revised and updated the chapter on The Public Works Contract in that same publication.  I am co-author of Rights and Remedies Against Other Parties To Process in Wiley & Sons' Contractor's Handbook; and the chapter on Contracts To Construct Sewerage and Water Treatment Plants in Wiley & Sons' Construction Project Form Book.

I understand the areas of the law applicable to public bidding and the proposal process, as well as the laws and rules particularly applicable to the agency doing the contracting.