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December 22, 2016 By AMK

President’s signature reinstates GAO protest authority

President Obama has signed into law HR 5995, which reinstates the Government Accountability Office’s jurisdiction over protests of civilian task orders.

gao-governmentaccountabilityoffice-sealThe GAO jurisdiction had expired at the end of fiscal 2016. The new law makes the GAO authority permanent.

During the two and half months since the authority expired, companies could not protest most civilian task orders. There was a little bit of a gray area involving whether there could be a protest of a task order if a defense buyer was using a civilian contract.

Several protests were filed involving this scenario, but GAO eventually ruled that it didn’t have jurisdiction and dismissed those protests.

Keep reading this article at: https://washingtontechnology.com/blogs/editors-notebook/2016/12/protest-authority-restored.aspx

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: award protest, bid protest, GAO, protest, task order

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