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Peter Terenzio

Peter Terenzio advises clients regarding the regulatory requirements that govern federal contractors and grantees. He focuses on helping clients navigate the Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) and the cost principles in FAR Part 31 and 2 CFR Part 200. He also routinely advises on Other Transaction Authority (OTA) research, prototype, and production agreements.

Peter works on accounting, cost, and pricing matters, including providing day-to-day compliance advice; assisting with responses to audits and investigations and findings of potential noncompliance; and performing internal investigations of alleged violations. He also advises on other regulatory regimes, including the complicated prevailing wage rules imposed by the Davis Bacon Act (DBA) and Service Contact Act (SCA). He has particular experience with prototype OTAs issued in cutting edge fields, including quantum computing and biotechnology.

Peter also represents contractors in disputes arising under contracts and grants. He knows how to work closely with the client's subject matter experts to prepare and submit detailed requests for equitable adjustment (REAs) to secure price or schedule relief. When contract disputes cannot be resolved amicably, he has helped clients in litigation before federal courts and the Boards of Contract Appeals.

Last week, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that modifies the regulations applicable to the Energy Credit under Section 48 of the Internal Revenue Code (Code).  The NPRM also withdraws and repurposes portions of an August proposal on the rules governing the increased credit amount available for taxpayers satisfying prevailing wage and registered apprenticeship requirements established by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).  This post summarizes a few key aspects of the NPRM below:Continue Reading Department of the Treasury and IRS propose new guidance for the Section 48 Investment Tax Credit

Two federal agencies recently released a joint Request for Information (“RFI”) in the latest in a series of concrete steps to meet the Biden Administration’s goal to achieve 100 percent carbon pollution-free electricity (CFE)[1] in federal operations by 2030.  The RFI, issued by DLA-Energy and GSA, offers industry a chance to shape future federal CFE procurements by providing information on carbon-free electricity supplied in competitive retail markets.  Although not itself a procurement opportunity, the information submitted under the RFI will inform the parameters and conditions of CFE competitions that the federal government expects to begin as soon as this year, with contract deliveries starting in 2023.
Continue Reading RFI Begins to Chart Course for Federal Clean Energy Procurements

Last week, President Trump issued a new executive order, entitled “Strengthening Buy-American Preferences for Infrastructure Projects.”  This order serves as an extension of the President’s earlier April 2017 “Buy American and Hire American” executive order, which we have previously analyzed in this space.  The April 2017 order stated that “it shall be the policy of the executive branch to buy American and hire American,” and, among other things, directed agencies to “scrupulously, monitor, enforce, and comply with” domestic preference laws (referred to by the executive order as “Buy American Laws”) and to minimize use of waivers that would permit the purchase of foreign end products.
Continue Reading Trump’s New Executive Order Requires Additional Buy American Preferences For Infrastructure Projects