The Contracting Education Academy

Contracting Academy Logo
  • Home
  • Training & Education
  • Services
  • Contact Us
You are here: Home / Government Contracting News / Defense contractors could face pay-back clause for losing bid protests

October 16, 2017 By AMK

Defense contractors could face pay-back clause for losing bid protests

Congress could make it more difficult for companies to protest contract awards, particularly those made by defense and military agencies.

Language within the Senate’s National Defense Authorization Act would reform the way the Government Accountability Office addresses bid protests, which have increased with frequency in recent years.

The NDAA language would “require contractors who file bid protests with the Government Accountability Office on a contract with the Department of Defense to pay to the Department of Defense costs incurred for processing a protest at the Government Accountability Office and the Department of Defense when such a protest is filed by a party with revenues in excess of $100 million during the previous year where all of the elements of such protest are denied” by GAO.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.nextgov.com/defense/2017/10/defense-contractors-could-face-pay-back-clause-losing-bid-protests/141675

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: bid protest, Congress, DoD, GAO, NDAA, protest

Popular Topics

abuse acquisition reform acquisition strategy acquisition training acquisition workforce Air Force Army AT&L bid protest budget budget cuts competition cybersecurity DAU DFARS DHS DoD DOJ FAR fraud GAO Georgia Tech GSA GSA Schedule GSA Schedules IG industrial base information technology innovation IT Justice Dept. Navy NDAA OFPP OMB OTA Pentagon procurement reform protest SBA sequestration small business spending technology VA
Contracting Academy Logo
75 Fifth Street, NW, Suite 300
Atlanta, GA 30308
info@ContractingAcademy.gatech.edu
Phone: 404-894-6109
Fax: 404-410-6885

RSS Twitter

Search this Website

Copyright © 2023 · Georgia Tech - Enterprise Innovation Institute