Issac D. Schabes

Government Contracts Litigation

• Successfully protested U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ award of preventative maintenance contract for multiple facilities across Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
• Successfully challenged FEMA’s elimination of client’s quotation from cyber security support services BPA procurement.
• Successfully defeated preliminary injunction seeking to prevent client from performing $190 million U.S. Marine Corps contract for mobile infantry target services.
• Successfully defended against protest challenging USTRANSCOM award of $110 million contract for accounting and financial operations support services.
• Successfully defended against multiple pre-award and post-award protests at the DC Contract Appeals Board and DC Superior Court challenging the DC Department of Health Care Finance’s award of $86 million Medicaid management contract.
• Successfully defended against two protests challenging VA’s award of $175 million contract for electronic data interchange modernization services in support of the VA’s Office of Integrated Care.
• Successfully defended against protest challenging U.S. Navy ‘s award of $50 million contract for full life-cycle engineering services in support of its torpedo program.
• Successfully protested DISA’s award of $235 million contract for software sustainment and modernization services, resulting in client winning re-competition.
• Successfully challenged U.S. Air Force’s award of $300 million contract for adversarial training services by obtaining agency corrective action and won recommendation for reimbursement of protest costs.
• Successfully defended U.S. Army’s award of $1.4 billion contract for foreign language interpretation services across entire USCENTCOM area of operations.
• Successfully challenged U.S. Air Force’s pre-award elimination of client’s proposal from commercial safety masks procurement and then successfully defended contract award at GAO and U.S. Court of Federal Claims after client won the $72 million contract.
• Successfully protested U.S. Secret Service award of cellular communications services and equipment contract.
• Successfully defended against protest challenging Administrative Office of the U.S. Court’s multiple award contract with total estimated value of $1.5 billion.
• Successfully defended against protest challenging Department of Defense award of $240 million contract for the TRI-GSM program.
• Successfully protested GSA’s award of a $678 million contract for systems engineering and integration services by obtaining agency corrective action.
• Represented government contractor before the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in connection with performance dispute issues.
• Represented insurance company before Civilian Board of Contract Appeals regarding a CDA claim litigation.  

Government Contracts Counseling

• Counseled public university in connection with civil False Claims Act investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and multiple OIGs regarding foreign funding disclosures, potential conflicts of interest, and other federal procurement and grant related issues.
• Counsel clients in negotiations of contracts with state agencies and local jurisdictions.
• Counsel clients on prime-subcontract agreements, flow-down requirements, and related issues.
• Counsel clients on compliance with federal grant regulations.