MICHAEL GERICH

General Attorney
Office of Federal Procurement Policy

Mike has served in a range of procurement and attorney positions in the last 27 years, 19 years in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy.  He has worked on procurement ethics, protest, litigation, debarment, and international contracting issues and has focused the last eight years on small business contracting and ethics matters.  Mike serves as OFPP Advisor to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Acquisition Law Team and the FAR Small Business Team.  Mike chaired the interagency group that developed the Administration's strategy on contract bundling (which was submitted to the President in 2002) and the interagency task force that developed regulations to implement the Administration's strategy.  He also drafted Executive Order 13360 (Providing Opportunities for Service-Disabled Veteran Businesses to Increase Their Federal Contracting and Subcontracting).  In previous years, Mike drafted the Commerce Acquisition Regulation (48 C.F.R. 13), Executive Order 12979 (Agency Procurement Protests), Executive Order 12931 (Federal Procurement Reform), and the legislative proposal that became the procurement integrity statutory provisions (41 U.S.C. 423).  Mike has also advised Moldovan and Ukrainian government officials on how to establish effective national procurement systems