Daniel P Graham

Practice Areas

Partner Dan Graham leads the Government Contracts practice. Highly regarded in Government Contracts litigation, Dan Graham has over two decades of experience assisting clients across industry sectors on bid protests, Contract Dispute Act appeals, prime and subcontractor disputes and commercial litigation.

Chambers USA has ranked Dan in Band 1 for Government Contracts (Nationwide). A client quoted by Chambers said “He is a star in this field. The client added, “No task is too large or too small for Dan to take on and excel at. He has provided advice which has resulted in several great outcomes” (2019).

Dan has litigated cases before the US Court of Federal Claims (COFC), the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the Boards of Contract Appeals, as well as before Federal District Courts and Courts of Appeals across the country.

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Professional Memberships

Former Council Member, ABA Section of Public Contract Law; Co-Chair, ABA Health Care Contracting Committee; Former Director, Federal Circuit Bar Association; Associate Editor, Public Contract Law Journal.

Personal

William & Mary School of Law (JD; Order of the Coif); Johns Hopkins University (BA).

Work Highlights

Successfully challenged the award of a $268 million contract by the Department of Defense in a protest at GAO, resulting in the disqualification of the awardee and the award of the contract to the client; successfully defended separate GAO, then COFC protests by the disqualified awardee; and successfully defended the disqualified awardee’s appeal of the COFC decision to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit*

In an agency level protest, persuaded the contracting officer to remove an organizational conflict of interest provision that effectively excluded the client from the competition, and then successfully defended a GAO protest filed by a competitor seeking to reinstate the restrictive provision*

Led a team that successfully challenged the award of a $60 million task order by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; after defeating the awardee’s motion to dismiss, the agency took corrective action, allowed the client to submit a revised proposal, and ultimately awarded the client the contract*

*Matter handled prior to joining McDermott.