Paul G. Perkins
P.O. Box 789
Niceville, Florida 32588
850-259-1021
(fax) 850-897-7715
Paul.Perkins@constructioncontractspecialists.com

  Mr. Perkins has a BS degree from the University of Alabama. As a commissioned officer and a civil service employee, Mr. Perkins worked in various capacities with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) for more than twenty-five years attaining the ranks of Lieutenant Colonel and GS-13, respectively. These dual assignments provide him a unique perspective into Government contract administration and Government contract law.

  As a commissioned officer, he commanded two separate one hundred twenty-man companies that performed bridge construction, supervised all training and construction for an eight hundred man engineer battalion, supervised the construction of a super tanker petroleum ship-to-shore off loading facility, and numerous other similar missions. In recognition of his efforts, Mr. Perkins received numerous exceptional performance awards, was awarded a bronze star and was awarded multiple army commendation metals. As a civil service employee, Mr. Perkins worked in various supervisory positions within the Mobile District of the USACE, the Republic of Panama and the Republic of Germany. The first ten years of his tenure with the USACE was devoted to the construction of the approximately $2,000,000,000 Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (Tenn-Tom Waterway). Mr. Perkins was initially involved in supervising the construction effort. However, over a period of time his duties became much more specialized and involved the design, issuance, negotiation and finalization of construction change orders, finalizing Contract Dispute Act (CDA) claims, and negotiating and preparing monthly payments to the construction contractors.

  Mr. Perkins was Deputy Area Engineer, Resident Engineer, Chief of the Contract Administration Branch, and Chief of the Project Management Branch. As such, he completed numerous forty to eighty hour technical courses. At multiple locations, Mr. Perkins was an Authorized Representative of the Contracting Officer. He completed the battery of mandatory legal and contract administration courses culminating in his being a warranted Administrative Contracting Officer at multiple locations. Mr. Perkins' background and training resulted in numerous exposures to hearings before the various Agency Boards of Contract Appeals and various forms of alternate dispute resolution. He has a through knowledge of network analysis systems, frag nets and impact analysis.

  While working for the USACE, Mr. Perkins recognized the severe handicap a small to medium sized contractor has when attempting to perform work with the Federal Government. He founded Construction Contract Specialists, Inc. in 1995 and has developed it into an affordable one-stop service offering cradle-to-grave services beginning with the solicitation stage and following through to the resolution of all claims.