House bill seeks to end ‘frivolous’ contract protests
According to the Federal Times:
Lawmakers want to know whether contract protests are getting in the way of government work.
The House Armed Services Committee wants the Government Accountability Office to gauge whether there has been an increase in the number of Defense Department cases dismissed because they are “frivolous and improper,” the committee said in a report accompanying its version of the 2009 defense authorization bill.
“The committee is concerned that the submission of a bid protest is becoming pro forma in the event that a prospective contractor is rejected,” according to the report on the bill. “The committee discourages the use of bid protests as a stalling or punitive tactic.”
If frivolous protests are indeed on the rise, the committee also wants the GAO to investigate why more contractors are protesting... click to continue.
