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Even though the number of bid protests is on the rise, the absolute number of them represent only a tiny fraction of contracting activity.
Sometimes it's easy to forget the government can terminate any contract at any time for convenience.
Sometimes the source selection authorities choose a different contractor than the one favored by the program people. If they do, they better have a good reason.
Incumbency has its advantages and sometimes being roughly as good and coming in with a lower price doesn't mean you'll take the stage.
If a company's winning bid proposal team includes a former agency employee, that's not necessarily a conflict of interest.
If you decide to protest, don't try to keep details of the performance reviews from the court. The judges don't like that.
Indefinite-delivery, indefinite quantity contracts with multiple contractors are supposed to make competition easier. Sometimes the opposite happens.
Short of protesting a contract award to a competitor, there's nothing a contractor can do when it gets a bad performance rating.
Sometimes procurement does come down to lowest price, but often contracting officers have to make tradeoffs.
GAO upheld a bid protest filed by YWCA over a Labor Department contract to run the agency's Los Angeles Job Corps center.
The Forest Service uses planes in wildfire suppression. The specs for one such plane landed the agency in the thicket of a protest.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for Federal Claims ruled the Army went too far in trying to be fair to bidders on a recent recompete contract.
An important acquisition by the Education Department hit the rocks. One contractor got hold of earlier bid documents of its competitor. Even disclosure of that fact wasn't enough to save this one. Procurement attorney Joseph Petrillo of Petrillo and Powell shares the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
Sometimes large and highly publicized procurements go so far off the rails the agency has no choice but to cancel them. That's what happened when Homeland Security's acquisition shop tried to make a multiple award deal for agile development. After two rounds of protests, the agency gave up. Joseph Petrillo, procurement attorney with Petrillo and Powell, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk more on the perceived irregularities.