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Posted by on Oct 20, 2016

Is Fear of Protests Guiding Your Behavior?

Is Fear of Protests Guiding Your Behavior?

We often hear students and agencies wanting to know how to avoid protests. I think we first need to establish that companies competing for government business have a right to protest when they feel the source selection was improperly conducted. We believe properly conducted debriefings that communicate why the losing offeror was not selected significantly help to prevent protests that offerors feel are the only way to obtain a fair explanation. Other explanations for protests have been argued but the fact remains that transparency in the debriefing can effectively dissuade protests. Of course, failure to document the rationale for your decisions will not help.

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Posted by on May 15, 2015

Training Shouldn’t Be LPTA

Training Shouldn’t Be LPTA

There are many reports that impugn the training that the acquisition workforce receives as ineffectual and the cause of poor acquisition execution and achievement of outcomes.  We suggested in a previous blog a way to improve the outcome of training.  In this blog we’d like to take a step back and describe how buying training […]

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