In the RAND Corporations’s 2018 report on DoD bid protests, RAND highlighted some concerning statistics regarding bid protests filed by small businesses. RAND discovered that more than 50% of protests were being filed by small businesses (more than double the percentage of prime contract dollars going to small businesses), and at GAO protests filed by small businesses tended to have significantly lower sustained and effectiveness rates, and were 50% more likely to be dismissed as “legally insufficient.” As a result of these findings, and others, RAND recommended that Congress consider approaches to reduce and improve bid protests from small businesses.
Please join the ABA Section of Public Contract Law Small Business Committee’s panel for a broad discussion of RAND’s findings and recommendations specific to small business protests, and the feedback RAND received concerning these recommendations. In addition, the panel will examine other approaches under consideration that were not included in the report, and will open the floor to a discussion on ideas to reduce and improve bid protests from small businesses.
Moderator
- Adam K. Lasky, Partner, Oles Morrison Rinker & Baker LLP
Panelists
- Brian Persons, Senior Management Scientist, RAND Corporation (Co-Author of the RAND Report)
- Jessica Tillipman, Assistant Dean for Field Placement and Professorial Lecturer in Law, The George Washington University Law School
This event will take place in-person (Morrison & Foerster LLP, 2000 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Suite 6000, Washington, DC) and by teleconference (Call-in: 855.890.6636 Participant Code: 7037607325), Noon – 1:00 pm EDT (9:00 am – Noon PDT) on Thursday May 3. If you’re interested in attending, please RSVP to TFouch@mofo.com.