2024-2025 Bid Protest Decisions with Far-Reaching Impacts for Government Contractors
Navigating Bid Protest Choices at GAO and COFC
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A Discussion with GAO General Counsel Edda Emmanuelli Perez
GovCon Perspectives Podcast Episode 24: Effective Use of “Open and Frank” Discussions in Bid Protests
Award Protests: Choosing the Forum
How to Assess the Likelihood of Success in Deciding Whether to Bring a Bid Protest
The Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) response to congressional inquiry regarding GAO’s bid protest function (Section 885 response), while pushing back against some proposed changes that could disincentive meritorious...more
This month’s bid protest roundup highlights three protest decisions released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit) in March. The first discusses an...more
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) 2024 Annual Report (Report) on bid protests provides a comprehensive overview of the trends, statistics and key issues in government procurement challenges over fiscal year (FY)...more
Claims Updates - Associated Energy Group, LLC v. The United States and Kropp Holdings, Inc., No. 23-20 47 (July 2, 2024) - Associated Energy Group, LLC (AEG) challenged the award by Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) for a...more
Federal Circuit Docket - Percipient.ai, Inc. v. United States, Fed. Cir. No. 2023-1970 (Jun. 7, 2024) - In a highly anticipated bid protest opinion, a divided merits panel of Federal Circuit judges reversed the Court of...more
Claims Updates - Yerington Paiute Tribe v. Department of the Interior, CBCA 7818-ISDA (February 1, 2024) The Civilian Board of Contract Appeals affirmed that the Contract Dispute Act’s (CDA) 90-day timeliness deadline...more
Claims Updates - Avue Technologies Corp. v. Department of Health & Human Services, No. 2022-1784 Fed. Cir. (March 6, 2024) The Federal Circuit issued its much-anticipated decision in a case that presented the question...more
In 2023, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and the U.S. Government Accountability Office issued five bid protest decisions worthy of note: This article provides summaries and discusses how these cases might shape future bid...more