Most government contractors know that the U.S. Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) sustains less than 20 percent of bid protests. If most protests are unsuccessful, why should you consider investing the time and considerable expense of filing a GAO protest, or intervening in a pending protest?

One reason that’s often overlooked is the protest that results in agency “corrective action.” Although an agency’s decision to take corrective action isn’t published anywhere, it occurs more often than GAO’s sustaining of a protest. This 90-minute webinar will discuss this and other strategies of bid protests, both for the protesting company and for the “intervener” company whose contract award is being protested. We’ll examine the pros and cons of filing a bid protest; deciding when to intervene; the internal discussions that take place between the contracting officer and agency counsel; what forms corrective action can take; and much more.

Learning Objectives

• Learn how and when to get legal counsel involved.
• Understand the effects that a protest has on an agency.
• Recognize when it makes sense to protest.
• Identify considerations you should take in deciding whether to intervene in a protest.
• Discover how you can achieve a positive result even without being sustained by GAO.
• And much, much more!