FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS BIOGRAPHY

Barry L. McVay is chief operating officer of Panoptic Enterprises, a publishing and consulting firm that specializes in the federal contracting process.

Mr. McVay started his federal contracting career in 1974 as a procurement intern at the Army Tank-Automotive Command in Warren, Michigan. He graduated to contract specialist in 1976 and transferred to the Army Mobility Equipment Research and Development Command at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. He became a contracting officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency in 1981, then moved to the headquarters of the Army Materiel Command in 1982 as a procurement analyst. He left in 1988 to devote full time to Panoptic Enterprises, which he founded in 1983 to publish his widely-acclaimed books Getting Started in Federal Contracting and Proposals That Win Federal Contracts, the monographs in the Panoptic Federal Contracting Series, and the newsletter Procurement Perspectives. He has written many magazine, newspaper, and professional journal articles on federal contracting issues, and has lectured on many aspects of the federal contracting process to government organizations, businesses, and educational institutions.

Since 1988, Barry has helped many companies, both large and small, become successful in federal contracting. Most recently, he was the senior editor of the West Group CD-ROM Government Contract Advisor, which included the texts of various federal acquisition and related regulations, statutes, policies, and a variety of federal documents that are important to the federal contracting community. The Government Contract Advisor also included the Government Contract Advisor Executive Report newsletters and Government Contract Advisor Alert Bulletins.

Mr. McVay is a Certified Professional Contracts Manager (CPCM), and is a member of the National Contract Management Association, the National Defense Industrial Association, and the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International.