Communication With COs Essential Before Shutdown

Stephen J. McBrady, a Washington, D.C.-based partner in Crowell & Moring's Government Contracts Group, is quoted in Bloomberg BNA discussing how federal contractors should talk with their contracting officers regarding potential effects if the government shuts down on October 1, 2015. In the event of a shutdown, "reasonable costs of dealing with the shutdown should be recoverable under cost-type contracts" and that "contractors have to take steps ‘across the board' to document any increased costs, both for winding down and starting back up, to support equitable adjustment claims," McBrady said.