Patrick D. Kennedy
is a Principal of Government Process Solutions LLC

Mr. Kennedy brings more than 33 years experience to GPS including 10 years in government service and 23 years in private practice primarily representing private clients before government agencies. His government experience provides him with knowledge of the working of a vast segment of New Jersey government.

He served as the Assistant Director of the Office of Administrative Law, and as Assistant to the Director of the Division of Purchase and Property where he was responsible for developing a program for assuring due process in the State's bidding process, and oversaw the State vendor compliance and complaint system. In that later capacity he also served as hearing officer in numerous bid protests, many of which matters form the foundation of contemporary rules relating to bid compliance and appearance of impropriety standards.

He also worked for the Legislature's non-partisan Office Of Fiscal Affairs, where he conducted performance and compliance audits of State programs including the Division of Pensions, the Division of Building and Construction, the Department of Civil Service, and the Educational Financing Authority.  

In private practice his work has focused on public procurement and administrative law, and frequently advises clients on issues relating to bidding procedures, contract compliance, and debarment and suspension of vendors.

Mr. Kennedy is a 1973 graduate of Rider College where he graduated with a degree in economics with honors. He attended Seton Hall University School of Law where he graduated with a Juris Doctor degree with honors in 1980. Mr. Kennedy served on Governor Whitman’s transition team for the Department of Personnel, Governor McGreevey's Transition Team for the Department of Environmental Protection, and the Supreme Court Committee on Outside Activities of Judiciary Personnel. He served as an adjunct professor at Rider University.