This report documents the RAND Corporations assessment of the prevalence and impact of bid protests on U.S. Department of Defense acquisitions. It is the product of a study on this issue that Congress called for in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017. The findings are intended to inform Congress and U.S. defense leaders about the effectiveness of current procurement policies and processes to reduce bid protests. It assumes that the reader has some basic knowledge of the federal bid protest system and venues for filing protests. RAND assembled and analyzed available data on bid protests and sought to address the study elements specified in Section 885 of the legislation. The analysis built on prior RAND research that assessed trends in U.S. Air Force bid protests, analyzed two high-profile bid protests (the Combat Search and Rescue Helicopter and Aerial Refueling Tanker Aircraft[KC-46] programs) for lessons learned, and recommended changes to Air Force acquisition tactics to counter bid protests in the future. In addition, for the current study, the RAND research team reviewed and summarized studies and analyses conducted by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, the Congressional Research Service, and other organizations on the prevalence and impact of bid protests.


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    Title :

    Assessing Bid Protests of U.S. Department of Defense Procurements


    Contributors:
    M. V. Arena (author) / B. Persons (author) / I. Blickstein (author) / M. E. Chenoweth (author) / G. T. Lee (author) / D. Luckey (author) / A. Schendt (author)

    Publication date :

    2018


    Size :

    114 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English