Luke W. Meier and Albert B. Krachman
The Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) has released its Annual Report to Congress summarizing bid protest activity for Fiscal Year 2019 (B-158766). The report shows that the number of protests has fallen, the effectiveness rate has remained high and remarkably stable, and hearings have made a bit of a comeback.
The chart below summarizes the GAO protest statistics from FY 2014 to FY 2019.
Here are four key takeaways from the latest report. Continue reading “Still Effective: Four Takeaways from the FY 2019 GAO Protest Statistics”