Mark GmyrCFE, CCA
Senior Managing Director, Commercial Damages & Investigation
Mr. Gmyr is a Senior Managing Director with Vertex. He specializes in the analysis of costs and damages incurred on construction projects, government contracts, and forensic financial analysis and accounting related casework with over 25 years of consulting and industry experience. During his career, Mr. Gmyr has authored expert reports and settlement narratives as well as presented at alternative dispute resolution proceedings, detailing findings of his analyses, and presented at industry forums. His work-product has been presented during court, mediation, and settlement proceedings and he has testified in State proceedings, depositions, and trials.
Areas of Expertise
Mr. Gmyr has been involved in analyzing claims and requests for equitable adjustment involving contract disputes. He has provided damage analyses on a wide variety of construction projects including new construction, expansion of existing facilities, modifications/rehabilitation of existing facilities, environmental remediation, and other construction cases involving soil excavation. He has also provided damages analyses on government contracts disputes cases where his analyses included assessment of contract formation support, computation of bid versus actual performance, and quantification of damages. He has been engaged on dozens of projects pertaining to the litigation of a series of cases before the United States Court of Federal Claims collectively known as Spent Nuclear Fuel cases. These cases, and resulting damages claims, resulted from the breach of the Standard Contract issued under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act and litigated as partial breach cases.
Mr. Gmyr has analyzed claims for owners, prime contractors, and subcontractors, as both defendants and plaintiffs. Claims analyzed have exceeded hundreds of million dollars on multi-billion-dollar contracts within various industries including nuclear, defense contracting, communications, construction, environmental remediation, real estate development, and transportation, among others. Issues addressed include damages arising from contract termination, contract default, changed work, deficient design, losses of efficiency, delay, acceleration, asset value disputes, and others. His work on termination cases included review and negotiations of termination for convenience settlement proposals. In addition to civil proceedings, he has worked on criminal proceedings performing accounting investigations of embezzlement, money laundering, and bribery.
Additional Services
Claim Analysis, Claim Preparation, Claim Evaluation, Construction Contract Audit, Construction Cost Review, Cost Review, Damage Analysis, Data Analytics, Data Collection, Dispute Resolution Support, Dispute Termination for Default, Document Review, Financial Analysis, Forensic Accounting, Forensic Investigation, Government Contract Compliance, Government Contract Consulting, Indirect Rate Calculations, Money Laundering Investigation, Prime/Sub Dispute, Request for Equitable Adjustment Preparation/Analysis, Subcontractor Negotiation, Terminations, Testimony
Additional Industries
Aviation/Aerospace, Automotive, Banking, Construction, Defense, Distribution, Electronics & Weapons Systems, Energy, Government, Hazardous Waste, Industrial, Manufacturing, Municipal Government, Nuclear Fuel, Oil/Gas/Coal, Power/Utilities, Prisons, Real Estate, Roads/Highways/Bridges, Shipbuilding, Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF), Water/Wastewater
Education & Certification
BS, Finance, Virginia Tech (cum laude)
Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)
Certified Construction Auditor (CCA)
Areas of Service
Expert Witness Services
Damages, Different Site Condition
Delay & Disruption, Productivity Loss and Disruption
Environmental, Environmental Claims Consulting
Forensics Technical, Accounting