- Government Contracts
- Bid Protests
- Claims
- Commercial Products and Services
- Compliance and Voluntary Disclosure
- Homeland Security
- Public Health and Pharmaceutical Compliance
- State and Local Government Contracts
- Suspension and Debarment
- Teaming Agreements and Subcontracts
- Terminations
- Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs
- Information Privacy
- Privatization
- J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, magna cum laude, 1983
- M.S.F.S., Georgetown University Law Center, 1983
- B.A., University of Pennsylvania, magna cum laude, 1977
- District of Columbia
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2d Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims
- American Bar Association, Co-Chair, Professional Responsibility and Contracting Ethics Committee; Liaison to the Section Officers Conference Committee on Professionalism and Ethics; Co-Chair, Task Force on Office of Government Ethics Potential Changes to the Criminal Code; and Co-Chair, Small Business and Other Socioeconomic Programs Committee, Public Contract Law Section
ALISON L. DOYLE
Partner, Washington DC
1900 K Street NW
Washington, DC 20006-1108
TEL: 202.496.7604
FAX: 202.496.7756
EMAIL: adoyle@mckennalong.com
PROFILE
Alison Doyle is a partner in McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP's Washington, DC office. Prior to joining the firm in 1984, she was a law clerk to the Honorable H. Emory Widener, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
As a member of the firm's Government Contracts Department, Alison counsels clients on issues relating to contract formation, performance and disputes. Although well-grounded in the traditional government contracts practice areas of the firm, her practice today focuses in particular on issues relating to government and enterprise acquisition of commercial goods and services, particularly information technology hardware and software. She has expertise in Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contracting with the General Services Administration and the Department of Veterans Affairs and other government-wide acquisition vehicles. She counsels commercial item vendors on such issues as contract interpretation, proposal issues, negotiations, audits and investigations in their government business. Her expertise in technology contracting includes service contracting, hardware sale/acquisition, software licensing, nondisclosure agreements and partnering arrangements of all types. She also has worked extensively on procurements under OMB Circular A-76 and related appeals and protests.
In addition, Alison has substantial experience with bid protests at the Government Accountability Office, the Federal Aviation Administration and in court. Her more recent protest experience has included two protests of flawed OMB Circular A-76 procurements, protests of VA and CDC pharmaceuticals procurements, a GSA multiple award schedule order protest and a protest of an FAA emergency transportation services contract award. She also counsels extensively on some of the more unique rules that apply to United States government procurements, especially those laws and regulations governing procurement ethics such as personal and organizational conflicts of interest.
Alison is a contributor to the Procurement Law Advisor, recently writing on new developments in MAS contracting in "Show Me the Procurement Vehicle! -- The Pitfalls and Opportunities of Those "Incidental Items" On Schedule Orders" (December 2000) and "GAO refines its Approach to Commercial Item Procurements" (August 2000). She was also the editor and co-author of "Organizational Conflicts of Interest in Government Contracting" (ABA 1991) and the co-author of "Multiple Award Schedule Contracting: A Guide for Business and Government" (H&K, 1995) and "GSA Multiple Award Schedule Contracts: Program, Pitfalls and Reforms" (Acquisition Issues, July 1992).
Alison co-chairs the Conflicts of Interest and Ethics Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Public Contract Law and is an active member of the Section's Commercial Products and Services Committee. She is also a member of the BCA Bar Association and the Federal Bar Association. She is a member of the ITAA Procurement Policy Committee and the Professional Services Council's Privatization Task Force.