Split Awards and Bid Protests in Acquisition

Abstract

Managing Bid Protests * Objective is not to minimize number of bid protests * Protests may correct procurement mistakes: -- Honest mistake: Limited information and bounded rationality -- "Dishonest" mistake: Bias by procurement officials * Objective is to "right size" number of protests -- Encourage protests that correct (significant) mistakes -- Discourage protests that don't make significant corrections * What are DoD's "levers of control" for managing the number and nature of protests?

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA529382

Entities

People

  • Peter J. Coughlan
  • William Gates

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Acquisition
  • Commerce
  • Contracts
  • Information Operations
  • Instructions
  • Probability
  • Procurement
  • Public Policy

Readers

  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.