How to Protest Proof Your Proposal

How do I protest-proof my proposal? Short answer – you can’t. Although government agencies and their source selection boards work to create processes and procedures to evaluate bids fairly and objectively, at the end of the day they are translating qualitative data into a quantitative scorecard…and they’re only human. However, there are tactics and processes government contractors can use to better prevent a protest lost because of something within the contractor’s control.

Amber Hart and Lisa Mundt of The Pulse of GovCon team up with Elizabeth Jochum from Smith Pachter McWhorter to review lessons learned from recent bid protest decisions and offer advice on how to avoid proposal mistakes that could cost you. The first in this series of events will focus on the legal implications behind reading a solicitation and identifying potential pitfalls.