Agenecy-Level Protest vs Gao Protest

Few agencies make their performance-level statistics available, so the selective information is lacking to track trends and draw conclusions concerning way take issue handling. (Nacke & Ralston 2011) The Unites States Government Accountability Office (GAO) is another witness agency that provides a venue for companies to plain a government agencys actions during the procurement process. GAO protest must contend a violation of procurement statue or regulation.This protest often involve claims that the agency inappropriately applied evaluation factors, inappropriately conducted a cost/technical trade off, the awardees proposal is non-responsive, and the agency conducted improper discussions with the offerors. Grounds protested to the GAO are often found during debriefs. The offerors right to debriefs for negotiated procurements is addressed at FAR 15. 505 and 15. 506.Generally an offeror has 3 age to submit a written request for debrief. Timing in submitting your protest to the GA O is crucial whether you protest on the terms of solicitation or not receiving award on a contract. If you wait too long, you will lose your right to protest. The deadline for filing a GAO protests depends upon when the impropriety became readily understood. Protest grounds related to the terms of solicitation must be filed prior to the due accompaniment for bid opening.If protest is based upon the agencys evaluation, it must be filed within 10 days if when the protester knew (or should have known) about the grounds for protest. If there is a right to debriefing and the protester requests such, the protest must be filed within 10 days if debriefing. Intended awardees of a contract that is the subject of a GAO protest have rights to intervene in the protest, this is important because it allows you the ability to monitor the protest and respond to the arguments do by the protestor. (agencyprotest. com)