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The Government Accountability Office, or GAO, have specific regulations in place for bid protests. In fact, there has been significant GAO bid protest decisions made of late. Some of the changes which make up the new significant GAO bid protest decisions are outlined below.
A vendor who is protesting an impropriety in a solicitation must still file its protest before the due date for receipt of bids and proposals. However, a vendor protesting its rejection from the competitive range or the award of a contract to another vendor must file its protest within 10 calendar days after the grounds for protest are known. This is one the main significant GAO bid protest decisions to have implemented.
Another of the significant GAO bid protest decisions is: given the fact that a vendor may file a protest within 10 calendar days after the debriefing, and considering that a protestor has 3 calendar days to ask for a debriefing, and the agency has 5 or more days after that in which to offer the debriefing, the protest timeframe can now expand for almost one month after award.
Once a protest is filed, the agency must then submit its administrative report within 30 days after the protest filing date, as mentioned above, the GAO must decide the protest within 100 calendar days.
These procedures are governed by the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984. The significant GAO bid protest decisions are an excellent way for protestors to have their bid protests resolved. Of course the regulations have its supporters and critics, as any change in legislation would, although the regulations from the GAO are not technically legally binding. They are only recommendations. However, whether you are for the significant GAO bid protest decisions, or against them, they are an avenue of possibilities for a lot of people.
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