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Constructing A Bid Protest Process: Choices Every Procurement Challenge System Must Make, Daniel I. Gordon
Constructing A Bid Protest Process: Choices Every Procurement Challenge System Must Make, Daniel I. Gordon
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Many public procurement systems, within the United States and abroad, have established systems for allowing vendors to challenge the conduct of procurement processes. Providing an effective domestic review mechanism for vendors who believe that government procurement officials have not conducted an acquisition lawfully brings an important measure of transparency and accountability to public procurement systems. This brief article discusses the goals of these bid protest systems, and then presents key choices that must be made in crafting such a system. For example: Where in the government is the protest forum located? How broad is the forum's jurisdiction? Who has standing …
Emerging Policy And Practice Issues (2005), Steven L. Schooner, Christopher R. Yukins
Emerging Policy And Practice Issues (2005), Steven L. Schooner, Christopher R. Yukins
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This paper, presented at the West Government Contracts Year in Review Conference (covering 2005), attempts to identify the key trends and issues for 2006 in U.S. federal procurement. In an effort to make sense of the current reforms, the paper focuses upon what seems to be the common imperative underlying the various initiatives: the need to bring order to a procurement function as it devolves away from the Government user - what some might call the "devolution" or "outsourcing" of the contracting function. The paper also addresses emerging issues including, among others, the death of competitive sourcing; the acquisition workforce …