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Bid protest corrective action: You can’t always get what you want

October 12, 2016 By Andrew Smith

Every government contractor that files a bid protest has the same goal in mind – corrective action.  The agency made a procurement error and changes need to be made.

us-court-of-appealsBut just because the agency takes corrective action does not mean it will be the corrective action your firm wants.  Contractors should take the time to consider the possible outcomes of a successful bid protest before filing.

Take, for example, the recent U.S. Court of Federal Appeals decision denying a protest over corrective action.  In that case, an unsuccessful offeror successfully protested a United States Transportation Command non-temporary storage contract.  In response to the protest, the agency took corrective action and started the process of re-evaluating all offerors in order to make a new award decision.

But this was not the corrective action the protestor expected.  Because the protest argued that the original awardee’s proposal was technically deficient, the protestor wanted the government to cancel the first award and make a new award decision (in its favor) without further evaluation.

The Court rejected the idea that a protester can limit the agency’s authority to correct evaluation errors.  To the contrary, the decision holds that it is within the agency’s discretion to review its prior conclusions and conduct a re-evaluation (provided that the new evaluation conforms to the solicitation and is fair to all offerors).

So is the takeaway that your firm shouldn’t file a protest unless it knows it will receive the award?

Keep reading this article at: http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=531868

Filed Under: Contracting Tips Tagged With: award protest, bid protest, COFC, contract protests, corrective action, proposal evaluation, protest, protests

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