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53 Procurement Law. 1 (2017-2018)

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X ........... .......................................................................... ............ ......................... :I M M ................................................... . .......... . .................. . . .. .... .... ... .... .... ..... Corrective Action Update: The Expanding Universe of Possible Grounds to Protest Agency Corrective Action BY STUART B. NiBLEY AND Am Y A CONANT Amy M. Conant This article builds on an article we authored for The Pro- curement Lawyer in 2016. In our 2016 article, we ad- dressed the topic of challenges of protesting agency cor- rective action that is taken in response to a bid protest: Corrective (Action) Lenses: Is 20/20 Hindsight Enough for Agencies When Taking Corrective Action in Response to a Protest? That article provided an overview of the prima- ry considerations when a party pursues a protest chal- lenging agency corrective action: jurisdiction, standing, timeliness, and protest grounds. In this update, we ana- lyze the wide variety of issues that face protesters, award- ees, and agencies when a party has protested agency cor- rective action. We examine how the U.S. Court of Stuart B. Nibley is a partner and government contracts practice chair with K&L Gates LLP, and, in addition to holding a number of current positions in the Section of Public Contract Law, is a past chair of the Section. Amy M. Conant is an associate with K&L Gates and holds a number of positions in the Section, including the Young Lawyer Council Member. Federal Claims (the Court), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the Federal Circuit), and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) have re- sponded to the various types of issues. Our analysis revis- its some decisions we discussed in our prior article and supplements the discussion with more recent decisions, and we offer new angles on the analysis. What grounds of protest are most likely to succeed at the GAO, and what grounds at the Court? What standards does each forum employ? We begin by offering some comments about the broad topic of agency corrective action and its encroaching role into the federal procurement process. No bid protest issue seems to be more central and important to partici- pants involved with a protested procurement than that of agency corrective action. The GAO announced in its year-end statistics that the effectiveness rate (sustained protests and protests in which an agency took corrective action in response to a protest) jumped to 46 percent in 2016, considerably the highest rate in recent history. In simplistic terms, corrective action involves an agency's response to a bid protest when the agency, either at a bid continued on page 16 Leveling the Playing Field7 News from the Commitees Published in The Procurement Lawyer, Volume 53, Number 1, Fall 2017. @ 2017 by the American Bar Association. Reproduced with permission. All rights reserved. This information or any portion thereof may not be copied or disseminated in any form or by any means or stored in an electronic database or retrieval system without the express written consent of the American Bar Association. Stuart B. Nibley

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