Predicting Bid Protests: What Should Acquisition Teams (Not) Do?
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Authors
Hawkins, Timothy G.
Subjects
Bid Protest
Source Selection
Justice
Government Contracting
Federal Acquisition
Source Selection
Justice
Government Contracting
Federal Acquisition
Advisors
Date of Issue
2019-07-31
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Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
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Abstract
Bid protests are increasing, and the effectiveness for protestors is relatively high. Bid protests delay receipt of needed goods and services. They are costly to prevent and to adjudicate. The purpose of this research is to better understand why bid protests are lodged by interested parties. This research concentrates on meso-level factors controlled by the acquisition team that affect the receipt of a bid protest, namely, the characteristics of the procurement, acquisition strategy decisions, and human factors. Using an existing data set of 240 government source selections resulting from a survey of U.S. Navy contracting officials, 19 antecedent factors will be explored.
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Report
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WKU-CM-19-178
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Naval Postgraduate School Acquisition Research Program
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66 p.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.