Tim Sullivan,Thompson Coburn LLP

As a government contractor, you don't want to be known as a whiner. Companies fear that if they get reputations for protesting bids it could hurt them in the long...

As a government contractor, you don’t want to be known as a whiner. Companies fear that if they get reputations for protesting bids it could hurt them in the long run. That’s according to Tim Sullivan, a veteran of the contracting world and writer of the blog, 10 Myths of Government Contracting. For the next nine Tuesdays, we’ll be talking about these myths with him. In today’s installment, Sullivan joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to discuss myth number two: you should always lodge a protest.

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