88: Government Contracting Mentor Protege Program - Matthew Schoonover
Channel: Eric Coffie 
Date: 12/10/2021

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In this episode, we bring you a 2-time guest, Matthew Schoonover, Principle of the law firm Schoonover and Moriarty. Matt has been supporting small businesses for more than a decade speaking, authoring legal news on the subject. On our first interview, episode 006 Back in 2019 we discussed Joint Ventures and Mentor Protege.

Matt has a wide experience representing individual and corporate clients in a range of litigation matters, including commercial litigation, insurance-defense actions, and intellectual property litigation. He practiced in pretrial litigation, and have experience preparing and responding to pleadings; conducting informal fact investigations and formal discovery, including taking and defending party and non-party depositions; motion practice; and advocating for clients at hearings and in mediation.

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0:00 - Intro
0:46 - Matthew Schoonver Introduction
1:50 - GovConBrief.com
3:01 - Changes in Joint Venture and Mentor Protégé Program
6:12 - What are the Common Questions that New Entrepreneurs ask to Matthew?
10:40 - Why would Large Company want to Work with me?
12:42 - What would I tell to Large Businesses that know nothing about Federal Contracting?
17:52 - Having specific Contract for Mentor Protégé Agreement
21:29 - What would have to change about my Old Agreement?
26:57 - What type of things should I be Cautions about before Deciding to working with Joint Venture or Mentor Protégé?
29:32 - Would you Encourage someone to team with Large Companies before doing Joint Venture?
30:45 - Is there any place where we can find out that Large Business did something wrong with Small Businesses?
32:57 - Rules effecting LPTA
38:13 - Metropolitan Statistical Area
45:09 - Wavier Process
45:49 - What is Wavier?
48:48 - Social Economic Set Asides
53:10 - Good Contractors and Bad Contractors
55:55 - Finding your Own Firm with your Partner
58:43 - Last Amazon Purchase
1:00:56 - How many kids does Matthew have?
1:03:13 - Odd place or Odd job that Matthew worked?
1:06:33 - Matthew's Website
1:07:19 - Outro