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Bid Protests
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Government Contracts Legal Forum
Fastest 5 Minutes: Bid Protests and VA Acquisition Regulation
This week's episode covers a bid protest decision relating to discussions, a Federal Circuit decision about jurisdiction under the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act, and an update to the VA Acquisition…
Inside Government Contracts
GAO Releases New Procedures for Classified Bid Protests
By Kayleigh Scalzo, Jay Carey, Hunter Bennett
GAO recently released new procedures for filing and handling bid protests involving classified material. The procedures emphasize that classified material cannot be filed on GAO’s Electronic Protest Docketing System (EPDS)…
Government Contracts Navigator
Blank Rome Successfully Represents KPMG LLP in GAO Bid Protest Challenging U.S. Air Force Award Decision
A Blank Rome team represented KPMG LLP in a successful bid protest before the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”), in which KPMG challenged the award decision of the United States Air Force in…
Government Contracts & Investigations Blog
GAO’s FY 2022 Bid Protest Statistics: GAO Protest Filings and Sustain Rates Continue to Decline, but Effectiveness Rates and Alternative Resolutions Continue to Climb
On November 1, 2022, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) published its Annual Report to Congress, which contains the statistics for bid protests filed at GAO in Fiscal Year 2022.…
BuildSmart
Update on Bid Protests in Alabama
By Aron C. Beezley, Gabrielle A. Sprio
We previously published an overview of the bid protest procedures in the State of Alabama and noted that the existing laws and regulations were repealed and replaced effective October 1,…
Government Contracts Legal Forum
GAO’s 2022 Bid Protest Report to Congress for FY 2021 Shows Better than 50% Chance of Obtaining Relief
By Amy Laderberg O'Sullivan, John E. McCarthy Jr., Rob Sneckenberg
On November 1, 2022, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its Annual Report on Bid Protests for Fiscal Year 2022. While the number of protests GAO received dropped by 12% for…
Inside Government Contracts
GAO’s Annual Bid Protest Report: Number of Protests Continues to Drop While the Effectiveness Rate Remains High
On Tuesday, GAO released its Bid Protest Annual Report to Congress for Fiscal Year 2022, which provides bid protest statistics and other interesting information regarding GAO’s protest system. The number of…
Government Contracts Navigator
FY 2022 Sees Number of Protests Fall, Solicitation Challenges Join the List of Most Likely Protest Grounds to Be Sustained
Luke W. Meier and Elizabeth N. Jochum ● The Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) has released its Annual Report to Congress summarizing bid protest activity for Fiscal Year 2022 (GAO-23-900462). The report mostly shows…
BuildSmart
Takeaways from GAO’s FY 2022 Bid Protest Report
By Aron C. Beezley, Patrick R. Quigley, Bradley
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently issued its annual bid protest report. As discussed below, this year’s report is noteworthy for multiple reasons, including that it shows that protesters received some…
Inside Government Contracts
GAO Sustains Pre-Award Protest and Finds Solicitation Terms to Be Ambiguous
As we have previously covered on this blog, challenges to the terms of a solicitation typically must be raised in a bid protest brought prior to proposal submission. The Government…