ARTICLES BY PATRICK J. KEOGH

 

 

PRESS RELEASES

The U.S. Department of Commerce Awards Contract to AMV

The Department of Commerce has announced the award of a $220,000 contract to AMV to create an asset and portfolio management system for the Department's real estate. The award was made under AMV's General Services Administration Financial and Business Solutions schedule contract.

Keogh Appointed to Nassau County Impact
and Concurrency Task Force

Patrick J. Keogh, President of AMV, LLC has been appointed to the Nassau County Committee on Impact Fees and Concurrency. The Committee is charged with designing key ingredients of the County's growth management future. Nassau County is a part of the Jacksonville metropolitan area. Impact fees and concurrency are significant issues in defining the County future development patterns. Keogh is a current member of the County's Planning and Zoning Board, the local land planning agency for the County.

Developers Gather in Washington to Create
The National Federal Development Association

Developers and other real estate professionals from around the country are meeting in Washington, D.C., on October 27, 2009, for the inaugural meeting of the National Federal Development Association (NFDA). The Association is being formed to organize the various industry professionals who specialize in Federal development and real estate business. Vin Hoover, one of the founding members of the Association and a Tampa Florida developer, said the idea behind the Association is to help bring better practices to the way the government conducts its real estate business. Hoover believes that the government tends to manage its development and real estate practices in ways that are different from other institutional real estate users. Those differences cost taxpayers in added time and money.

About 100 developers, attorneys, investment bankers, brokers and public procurement professionals registered for the event. The meeting is being held at the Washington offices of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, a prominent international law firm with an extensive public sector real estate practice. Dr. Dennis Eisen, another founding member of the Association and the editor of Government Leasing News in Rockville MD, said the idea for the association came out of a series of seminars sponsored by GLN and AMV, LLC. Eisen said the seminars were intended to help GSA design better business practices for its privately financed build-to-suit projects. He noted that there is about $5 billion in build-to-suit projects that are not proceeding because the procurement tools used by GSA are not responsive to market realities. One of the results of the seminars was the realization than the same problems experienced by GSA were occurring throughout government.

Pat Keogh, the President of AMV, LLC, a firm that specializes in structuring public private partnerships and a founding member of the Association, said there is no reason that the government cannot employ the same business practices as their industry colleagues. He maintained that the federal procurement rules do not prescribe how real estate deals must be acquired or structured. But, to get the best deals, government will have to form new kinds of partnering relationships with the private sector.
Developer Hoover said that the goals of the Association will be to educate and persuade government that there are better ways to reduce procurement cycles, lower financing and construction costs and mitigate project risks. Hoover emphasized that government officials are encouraged to join the Association and as associate members at reduced dues to attend Association proceedings and participate in many of its activities. He said there has been enormous interest in the new Association and he was expecting lively discussion on how to best influence public policy in federal real estate matters. 

Alternative Lease Construction Methods: A Workshop

One Day Working Event:   Bring you and your requirement to the workshop. Depending on the status of the project we will need the prospectus or an understanding of the need. What is the likely size, performance expectations, location, prior efforts etc.? Who needs to be involved in the process?

AMV will bring its experienced federal procurement officials, acquisition and development attorneys and financial experts.

You should bring your CO, COTR, counsel, tenant reps, financial experts and anyone else on your project team.

What we will help you produce at the workshop: 

  • A team with a better understanding of the build-to-suit process, its risks, rewards, incentives and dynamics.

  • An understanding of the alternative ways to structure a lease construction transaction

  • An Acquisition Strategy outlining

  • The procurement process

    • Justification for changing from current to alternative procurement approach

    • Summary of procurement documents

    • How to best use a preproposal conference

    • Source selection methods

    • Schedules

    • Financing approach

    • Budget scoring implications and treatment

Solicitation Documents. We will then work with you to generate drafts of the first solicitation documents ready for use shortly after the workshop.

Procurement Vehicle: You can order today off our GSA Financial and Business Solutions Supply Schedule accessed from www.amv-llc.com

Contact:
        Patrick J. Keogh
        AMV, LLC
        703-790-8471
        pkeogh@amv-llc.com

Seminar on Lease Construction and Alternative Methods for Government Build-to-Suits

Government Leasing News, Rockville, MD, and AMV, LLC of Fernandina Beach, FL today conducted a seminar at the Naval Heritage Center, 701 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC. About 90 federal real estate officials from GSA and its client agency assembled to participate in presentations dealing with privately financed public building development.

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GSA Extends AMV’s FABS Contract to 2013

AMV, LLC announced that the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service has extended AMV’s schedule contract to April, 2013. GSA’s multiple award schedules serve as a master contract against which individual Federal agencies and some local governments can order a wide range of services and products. Fees for the various offerings by schedule contractors have been pre negotiated by GSA. AMV has held a Financial and Business Services (FABS) schedule contract since 2003. Under the schedule contract AMV has offered a wide range of services including:

• financial advisory
• development and real estate advisory services
• legal services, and
• public-private partnering.

AMV partners with CTL Capital LLC (New York), Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman (Washington, D.C.) and Regan Associates (Herndon, Virginia) in providing services.

Keogh Appointed to Nassau Planning and Zoning Board

Patrick J. Keogh, President of AMV, LLC, has been appointed to the Planning and Zoning Board of Nassau County, Florida. The PZB is both the planning agency for the county as well as the zoning regulatory body. Nassau is a rapidly developing county in the northeast corner of Florida just north of Jacksonville.       

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