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- Title
STEPPING STONES TO REFORM: MAKING AGENCY-LEVEL BID PROTESTS EFFECTIVE FOR AGENCIES AND BIDDERS BY BUILDING ON BEST PRACTICES FROM ACROSS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
- Authors
Yukins, Christopher R.
- Abstract
A healthy public procurement system relies on many measures for accountability and transparency, including bid challenges brought by vendors (called "bid protests" in the United States). Bid challenges typically can be brought before the procuring agency itself (called "agency-level bid protests" in the U.S. federal system), before an independent agency, or before the courts. In U.S. federal procurement, agency-level bid protests have languished since they were first launched a quarter-century ago, in part because they are viewed as opaque and biased against vendors. As a result, vendors prefer other channels for bid protests, though agency-level bid protests are less expensive and far less disruptive for both vendors and their customer agencies. Drawing on decades of innovation in agency-level bid protests across many federal agencies, this article (which was originally prepared as part of a study by the Administrative Conference of the United States) proposes many reforms to agency-level bid protests in the U.S. government-reforms which are broadly supported in the procurement community, and which could make agency-level bid protests a much more effective means of resolving disagreements between vendors and their public customers.
- Subjects
UNITED States; GOVERNMENT purchasing; BID protests; FEDERAL government of the United States; POLITICAL reform; CONSUMERS
- Publication
Public Contract Law Journal, 2021, Vol 50, Issue 2, p197
- ISSN
0033-3441
- Publication type
Article