Daniel Woodring, Florida Bid Protest Attorney

Attorney Daniel Woodring has been advising on and handling Florida state procurements and bid protests for more than 25 years. He helped draft the first statutory language that set out the invitation to negotiate (ITN) option, and litigated the first case that set aside an ITN award because the awarded vendor was not responsive, the Infinity Software case.

To speak with Mr. Woodring about a Florida procurement or bid protest, telephone 850-567-8445 or write to us with the form on this page.

Procurement Work in State Government

Mr. Woodring’s procurement experience began inside state government. In the Executive Office of the Governor, where he was one of the Governor’s counsel, he was the lawyer chiefly responsible for major competitive procurements across the state agencies, working alongside the Department of Management Services. In that role he also worked with the Florida Legislature on revisions to chapter 287, Florida Statutes, the state’s purchasing law, and wrote the initial proposed language for the invitation to negotiate.

He was then General Counsel of the Florida Department of Education for almost five years. State procurements and bid protest proceedings were among the matters he advised on and litigated there, and the work reached purchasing by the state, by universities, and by school boards. During those years he also became the first General Counsel of the Florida Board of Governors, which oversees the State University System.

Representing Vendors and Agencies Since 2007

Mr. Woodring came back to private practice in 2007, with the Woodring Law Firm. He has counseled both sides of the purchasing table since then: vendors pursuing or defending awards, and public agencies running their own solicitations. The contracts in the procurements he has litigated have run from a few million dollars to several hundred million.

The Infinity Software Protest

In 2011 the firm represented Infinity Software, a Florida software company, in a protest of an invitation to negotiate in which a state agency intended to award a major contract to Microsoft. The intended award was set aside because the selected vendor’s reply was not responsive. It was the first ITN protest at the Division of Administrative Hearings in which an agency’s award was reversed on the merits.

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Bar Admissions and Courts

Mr. Woodring joined The Florida Bar in 1996 and belongs to its Administrative Law Section and its Appellate Practice Section. He is admitted in all three federal district courts in Florida (Northern, Middle, and Southern), in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and in the U.S. Supreme Court. Final orders in state agency bid protests are reviewed by Florida’s District Courts of Appeal, where he has argued cases.

Full Biography

Mr. Woodring’s full biography, including his education and his other areas of practice, is on the Woodring Law Firm website.