Contractors could, and did, complain plenty during the government shutdown — but what they couldn’t do was lodge those complaints formally.
But after the GAO was forced to close Oct. 1, contractors couldn’t officially file new protests and couldn’t get responses to the ones they’d already filed. (The GAO allowed companies to e-mail their protests, but said the protests would be marked as filed the day the government reopened.)
Keep reading this article at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/shutdown-leaves-gao-with-massive-backlog-of-contractors-bid-protests/2013/10/18/75783a20-375a-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story.html
