Best Practices and Tools for Bid Protest Avoidance

Description:

There's no such thing as ""protest-proof"" but you can avoid many common mistakes that lead to bid protests by applying these best practices and tools and by performing a protest risk analysis of your acquisition before it goes out the door. Join this session for a dive into the repeatable best practices and lessons learned for developing solicitations, conducting source selections, and communication between government and industry that are proven to help avoid protests. Additionally, we will focus on lessons learned from bid protest decisions, including a demonstration of the free Contract Protest Diagnostic Tool (developed by MITRE in collaboration with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)) that provides a customized analysis of protest risk for your acquisition. 

Level of Difficulty: Intermediate

Presenters:

• Michelle Miller
• Patrick Staresina 
• Thomas Scott Bumgarner 
• Patrick Butler 
  

• 1.5 CPE/CLP credits for participation

Cost: 

• $55 member/ $69 non-member

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