ALM Legal Intelligence, a business information provider to U.S. and international law firms, released the Government Contracts Database product today that provides full, searchable data on all federal contracts for outside legal services from 2008 to 2012.
The Government Contracts Database is designed to give law firms and other service providers new opportunities to service U.S. government contracts. The resource includes detailed government purchases of legal products and services during the Obama administration, contract modifications, and benchmark billing rates charged by peer firms.
The database user interface lets you search contracts by contractor, law firm, firm size, and whether or not a firm is listed in the NLJ 350. You can also filter searches using a date range and state jurisdiction and display results by contractor award and law firm award, among other options. See Figure 1.
The Government Contracts Database user interface allows you to search by multiple criteria using pull-down menus. Click image to enlarge.
The search parameters for contractors and U.S. office or agency allow you to select contractor or agency names from a list that matches the first few characters you type in the search window. I selected the contractor Forfeiture Support Associates after typing the characters "for", searched for all records in the database, and displayed them by "All Contractor Awards." I downloaded the results in an excel spreadsheet to review after Andrew Ramonas, a National Law Journal reporter, reported that FSA was a top legal contractor with the U.S. government from 2008 to 2012. I then displayed results by office (Figure 2) and by state jurisdiction (Figure 3) to see some interesting entries for FSA contract awards in Europe (Armed Forces), Guatemala, and Hong Kong, among others.
Figure 2 shows search results from the Government Contracts Database displayed by U.S. Office or agency. Click image to enlarge.
Figure 3 shows search results from the Government Contracts Database displayed by state jurisdiction. Click image to enlarge.
Kevin Iredell, ALM vice president of research and continuing education products, said that "ALM has pulled together every single contract for outsourced legal services, including contract modifications, made by the U.S. government between 2008 and 2012 and turned it into a fully searchable product."
The Government Contracts Database is available as a standalone product or part of an annual subscription to ALM's Legal Intelligence Database.
For more information, go to http://almlegalintel.com/ali/governmentcontracts.
ALM Legal Intelligence is ALM's online research web service. Law Technology News is an ALM publication.
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