Patrick’s client work has included:

• Defending a government prime contractor as lead associate at a bench trial in the Circuit Court of Fairfax County, Virginia. This prime-contractor/subcontractor dispute about breach-of contract claims involved data rights and resulted in a judgment for defendant.
• Representing protestors from a variety of industries in GAO and agency-level bid protests resulting in corrective action by the agencies in nearly two dozen cases.
• Representing an intervenor, a high-tech company providing engineering, IT, operations and maintenance, logistics and program management services, in a bid protest that was dismissed at the GAO and then filed and withdrawn at the US Court of Federal Claims.
• Representing an intervenor, a global IT service provider, in a GAO bid protest that the protester withdrew after outcome prediction alternative dispute resolution (ADR).
• Representing a protester, an international consulting firm, before the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Dispute Resolution for Acquisition, obtaining agency corrective action after mediation.
• Advising an interstate transportation authority board regarding bid protest appeals.

Patrick’s reported cases include:

• Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., B-405993, 2012 CPD ¶ 30 (Comp. Gen. Jan. 19, 2012)
• Raydar & Assocs., Inc., B-401447, 2009 CPD ¶ 180 (Comp. Gen. Sept. 1, 2009)
• ACS Education Solutions, LLC, B-401531, 2009 CPD ¶ 209 (Comp. Gen. Oct. 5, 2009)
• AmerescoSolutions, Inc., ASBCA No. 56824, 11-1 BCA ¶ 34,705
• OSC Solutions, Inc., SBA No. SIZ-5253 (June 23, 2011)

Prior to joining the legal industry, Patrick was a Foreign Service officer, serving 16 years with the US Department of State, where he was assigned to Somalia, El Salvador, Columbia, Peru, India and Washington, DC. After leaving the Foreign Service and before joining Arent Fox, Patrick worked at two large law firms where he focused on government contracts matters and large, general commercial litigation cases. From 2004-2005, Patrick served as law clerk to the Honorable Diane Gilbert Sypolt of the US Court of Federal Claims.

Patrick is a member of both the American Bar Association and the National Defense Industrial Association.

Patrick is fluent in Spanish.