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Title

  • Main Title GAO Bid Protests: Trends and Analysis

Creator

  • Author: Schwartz, Moshe
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Specialist in Defense Acquisition
  • Author: Manuel, Kate M.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Legislative Attorney

Publisher

  • Name: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
    Place of Publication: Washington D.C.

Date

  • Creation: 2015-07-21

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: This report is one of two providing Congress with background on the GAO bid-protest process. It analyzes trends in bid protests filed with GAO, why companies protest, the impact bid protests have on acquisitions, the most common grounds for GAO to sustain a protest, and trends in bid protests filed against DOD.
  • Physical Description: 26 pages.

Subject

  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Government agencies
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Competitive bidding
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Contracts
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Business

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States

Collection

  • Name: Congressional Research Service Reports
    Code: CRSR

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Report

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • CRS Report Number: R40227
  • Accession or Local Control No: R40227_2015Jul21
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc743602
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