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2024 GAO Bid Protest Report: Numbers Down, Effectiveness Still Even Odds

SmallGovCon

As we look forward to fall traditions like turkey and mashed potatoes, pumpkin spice, and leaf peeping, don’t sleep on another fall tradition, the GAO bid protest report. This report is GAO’s summary of bid protests for the previous fiscal year. It also summarizes the general statistics for bid protest decisions.

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Should Bid Protest Losers Pay?

Inside Government Contracts

Section 804 of the House-enacted version of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 would establish a “loser pays” pilot program to require contractors to reimburse the Department of Defense for costs incurred in “processing” bid protests that are ultimately denied by the Government Accountability Office.

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Open Olympics 2026: progress and challenges

Open Contracting Partnership

When we launched the campaign in May 2024, we identified a lack of accessible, consolidated data on Olympic-related projects. Although there was an official delivery plan for the Games, as specified in a September 2023 governmental decree, we found data and documents on its delivery scattered across various public and private actors.

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Understanding Standard Bidding Documents in Public Procurement

The Procurement ClassRoom

Introduction This article is based on the review of standard bidding documents from several organizations including the World Bank , Millennium Challenge Corporation , the Public Procurement and Concession Commission of the Republic of Liberia , and Public Procurement Authority of Ghana. Goods : Documents used for procuring physical items.

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As the Acquisition World Turns: OFPP turns heat up on primes

Federal News Network

The Government Accountability Office’s annual report to Congress on the state of bid protests always is fascinating. Source: GAO Bid Protest Report to Congress for Fiscal 2024. Let’s get back to GAO’s bid protest report. Two data points help us understand some important facets of federal contracting.

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Smarter collaboration: How Mexico City delivers major projects through inclusive planning

Open Contracting Partnership

For procuring officials, the pre-bidding documents module also streamlines their workload by consolidating feedback in a single, organized platform. Open by design The pre-bidding module was designed specifically for complex procedures that are highly technical or likely to have a significant impact on citizens.

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Better data protests could benefit, agencies, vendors alike

Federal News Network

When it comes to data on bid protests, the data is lacking to say the least. Beyond the annual bid protest report to Congress from the Government Accountability Office, agencies track few other outcomes from protests. The protest process is important to manage the procurement process.

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