GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING –

2016 GAO Bid Protest Annual Report: Sustain Rate Hits Nine Year High, Up More Than 10% from 2015 –

GAO recently released its annual report to Congress, which included data concerning its protest ?lings for Fiscal Year 2016. Based on the data, 2016 was an historic year. GAO not only decided more cases on the merits in 2016 than in any prior year, dating back to 2001, but it also sustained more cases in 2016 than in any year during that same period.