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Bid Protests
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Government Contracts Legal Forum
GAO Releases Bid Protest Statistics for FY 2014
By John E. McCarthy Jr., Mary Gilbert
On November 18, GAO released its annual report to Congress under the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984, 31 U.S.C. § 3554(e)(2), disclosing the following bid protest statistics for FYs…
Government Contracts & Investigations Blog
Protests Up & Sustains Down – A Brief Review of GAO’s FY 2014 Bid Protest Stats
On November 18, 2014, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) published its Annual Report to Congress (B-158766, November 18, 2014), which contains the statistics for bid protests filed at GAO…
Inside Government Contracts
GAO Bid Protest Filings Increase in FY 2014 But Sustain Rate Declines
By Jennifer Plitsch, Nooree Lee, Covington Team
On November 18, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its annual bid protest report for FY 2014. According to the report, 2,561 cases were filed at GAO in FY 2014,…
The Federal Government Contracts & Procurement Blog
GAO Releases Bid Protest Statistics for Fiscal Year 2014, Revealing New Trends & Discussing Effect of the Government Shutdown
Just this week, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) released the GAO Bid Protest Annual Report to Congress for Fiscal Year 2014. Bid Protest Statistics for Fiscal Year 2014 Every…
GovCon & Trade
GAO Releases Annual Bid Protest Report: Corrective Actions on the Rise?
This week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its annual Bid Protest Report for Fiscal Year 2014. GAO is required by the Competition in Contracting Act to submit this annual…
GovCon & Trade
Learning from Bid Protests: Responsibility vs. Acceptability
In government contracting, offerors are regularly evaluated in their proposed approaches to meet solicitation requirements. Occasionally, an offeror's proposed solution is immaterial, as the offeror's overall ability to perform the…
GovCon & Trade
Upcoming Seminar on October 28, 2014: Bid Protests and SBA Size/Status Protests: Filing and Defense Strategies
By Todd Overman
We are dusting off our boots and heading to Tennessee. We'll be at the SCS Annual Government Contracting Seminar in Oak Ridge, TN on October 28. The conference is designed…
GovCon & Trade
Learning from Bid Protests: Non-GSA Contract Holders Can Submit Offers Through a Contract Holder—If They Follow the Rules
The government contracting industry is extremely competitive, which is not a surprise given the $500+ billion dollars in federal procurement spending up for grabs each year. This competition certainly gives…
Meaningful Discussions
Federal Circuit Makes Clear that FASA Imposes a Broad Ban on Bid Protests of Task Orders at the CFC
Task orders have become ubiquitous in the federal procurement system. Although the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act (FASA) gives GAO exclusive jurisdiction over protests of task orders, contractors occasionally seek to…
Meaningful Discussions
What is Required for Discussions to Be Meaningful?
By Michelle E. Litteken, Luke Levasseur
Editor’s note: This is the second post in a series of posts focused on protest allegations related to discussions with offerors. The first post addressed differences between clarifications and discussions.…