Search GAO bid protest decisions across the whole federal government and read grounded, citation-verified AI analysis. Sustain rates by protest ground, agency risk, semantic search, a citation knowledge graph, and a research agent over the full corpus, with every case one click from the official gao.gov ruling.
Decisions
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Merits Decisions
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DECISION DATE RANGE
Protest Grounds
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Sustain Rate
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Corrective Action
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Federal Departments
118 PROCURING AGENCIES
A bid protest is a challenge to a federal agency's procurement decision — the terms of a solicitation, the evaluation of proposals, or the award itself. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is the independent forum that decides them under the Competition in Contracting Act and its bid protest regulations at 4 C.F.R. Part 21.
GAO's decisions are the practical case law of the source-selection process — technical and past-performance evaluation, price and cost realism, best-value tradeoffs, discussions, set-aside eligibility, organizational conflicts of interest, and timeliness. For contractors, counsel, and capture teams, they are the clearest signal of where an award is vulnerable and how to win or defend a protest.
GovConDash brings together the government-wide bid protest corpus from gao.gov and layers grounded AI analysis on top, so you can search, compare, and understand years of decisions in minutes, with every claim traceable to the source.
Grounds
Technical & past-performance evaluation, price/cost realism, best-value tradeoff, discussions, set-aside eligibility, OCI, timeliness
Parties
Protesters vs. procuring agencies across the whole federal government, defense and civilian alike
Signatory
Signed by the GAO Office of General Counsel, captured from the decision record
Source
Official decisions published at gao.gov
Statistics and case facts are retrieved from the grounded corpus, never invented. Outcomes and protest grounds are derived deterministically from the verbatim digest and text; anything ambiguous stays blank rather than guessed. Every decision links out to the official gao.gov ruling so you can verify any point yourself.
The corpus spans 57 federal departments and independent agencies and 118 procuring components. Defense is the largest share of published protests, but civilian buying, from the VA and DHS to GSA, HHS, and the SBA, is fully covered.
12 DECISIONS CARRY NO AGENCY FACET ON GAO.GOV AND ARE HELD AS NOT SPECIFIED RATHER THAN ASSIGNED TO A DEPARTMENT
A complete research workflow over the GAO bid protest corpus, grounded in the record and tuned for government contracting counsel, capture, and compliance.
Every decision becomes a structured brief — background, grounds of protest, holding, rationale, and disposition — written in a neutral legal register for counsel, capture, and compliance teams.
Every cited authority and supporting quote is string-matched back to the verbatim decision text. Authorities cross-link to the FAR Library and eCFR. Nothing is asserted that is not in the record.
Search by concept, not just keywords — "unequal discussions in a best-value tradeoff" surfaces the right protests through pgvector embeddings fused with full-text search. Keyword search is free.
A GraphRAG knowledge graph links protests, authorities, protesters, agencies, and issues — traverse the citation network and let the agent reason over connected decisions.
Sustain rates by protest ground, the issue-by-outcome view, agency risk, most-cited authorities, and corrective-action share — the patterns across years of decisions, computed merits-only.
Ask questions in plain language across the entire corpus. The agent retrieves, reasons, and answers — citing only the decisions it actually pulled, each one click from the official gao.gov ruling.
The opening appearance and protest blocks are parsed into structured counsel and procurement facts — powering law-firm win rates by side and the awardee, solicitation, and procuring office for each protest.
The corpus comes directly from gao.gov and every row links to the official decision. AI analysis is labeled and grounded in the verbatim text, so you can verify any point in one click.
Live aggregates over 5,430 merits decisions. Which grounds are litigated most, and where protesters actually prevail.
Protester-side law firms ranked by the number of merits protests they have won (sustained in whole or in part). Counsel is parsed deterministically from each decision's opening appearance block, computed merits-only over firms with at least five appearances.
| Firm | Protests | Sustainments |
|---|---|---|
| Wiley Rein LLP | 165 | 42 |
| Crowell & Moring LLP | 137 | 33 |
| Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP | 117 | 27 |
| Holland & Knight LLP | 122 | 20 |
| Morrison & Foerster LLP | 78 | 15 |
| Piliero Mazza PLLC | 96 | 14 |
| Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP | 104 | 13 |
| Arnold & Porter LLP | 53 | 13 |
| Venable LLP | 78 | 11 |
| Cohen Mohr LLP | 55 | 11 |
MERITS ONLY · n ≥ 5 APPEARANCES · SUSTAINMENT = PROTEST SUSTAINED IN WHOLE OR IN PART
A professional bid protest brief on a single decision, grounded end to end in the verbatim record. It leads with the caption and background, pairs each ground of protest with GAO's holding and rationale, and closes with the disposition, with FAR citations and a link to the official gao.gov decision.
“Our review of an agency's evaluation is limited to determining whether it was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation and applicable procurement law.”
Search 5,964 decisions by protester, B-number, or digest, and filter by year, outcome, federal department, and protest ground. Each row opens the decision's own page, with the official ruling on gao.gov one click away, or browse the full index.
| Oct 19, 2026. | B-424664B-424664.2 | The MIL Corporation Navy Best-Value / Source Selection | Navy | Dismissed in part | |
| Oct 19, 2026. | B-423574.2 | Encon Desbuild JV4, LLC Navy Timeliness | Navy | Dismissed | |
| Oct 19, 2026. | B-424724 | Prestique, Inc. Air Force Responsibility / Responsiveness | Air Force | Denied | |
| Oct 19, 2026. | B-424435.3 | CAKAR ULUSLARARASI NAKLIYAT SANAYI VE TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI U.S. Transportation Command Technical EvaluationBest-Value / Source Selection | U.S. Transportation Command | Denied | |
| Oct 16, 2026. | B-424681 | Hatalom Corporation Navy Set-Aside / Small Business | Navy | Denied | |
| Oct 14, 2026. | B-424785 | Casey & Company LLC National Park Service | National Park Service | Denied | |
| Oct 13, 2026. | B-424203.3B-424203.4 | Reliance Test & Technology Air Force Technical EvaluationBest-Value / Source Selection | Air Force | Sustained in part | |
| Oct 13, 2026. | B-424203.2 | Fluor Federal Solutions, LLC Air Force Technical EvaluationPrice / Cost Evaluation | Air Force | Sustained in part | |
| Oct 13, 2026. | B-422384.7 | VMD Systems Integrators, LLC d/b/a VMD Corporation--Costs Federal Emergency Management Agency Set-Aside / Small Business | Federal Emergency Management Agency | Costs | |
| Oct 13, 2026. | B-424607.2 | Sterling Readiness Rounds, LLC--Reconsideration Department of Veterans Affairs Sole-Source / Improper Award | Department of Veterans Affairs | Reconsideration | |
| Oct 09, 2026. | B-424245.3 | Cashel Strategic, LLC--Reconsideration Air Force Standing / Jurisdiction | Air Force | Reconsideration | |
| Oct 08, 2026. | B-424623 | Octo Metric, LLC Department of Homeland Security Technical Evaluation | Department of Homeland Security | Denied | |
| Oct 07, 2026. | B-424661B-424661.2 | RFD Beaufort, Inc. Navy Sole-Source / Improper Award | Navy | Denied | |
| Oct 07, 2026. | B-424568.3 | Asset Protection & Security Services, L.P. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Corrective Action | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | Denied | |
| Oct 05, 2026. | B-424444.2 | Aero Simulation, Inc. Air Force Solicitation TermsTimeliness | Air Force | Reconsideration | |
| Oct 01, 2026. | B-424613B-424613.2 | Integrity Management Consulting, Inc. Department of Homeland Security Best-Value / Source Selection | Department of Homeland Security | Dismissed in part | |
| Oct 01, 2026. | B-423714.5 | Hendall Inc. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | Dismissed | |
| Sep 30, 2026. | B-424631 | Mission Analytics, LLC Defense Information Systems Agency Timeliness | Defense Information Systems Agency | Dismissed | |
| Sep 28, 2026. | B-424598B-424598.2 | Coulson Aviation (USA) Inc. Forest Service Best-Value / Source Selection | Forest Service | Dismissed in part | |
| Sep 28, 2026. | B-424433.18 | Cinteot, Inc. Army | Army | Denied | |
| Sep 25, 2026. | B-424599B-424599.2 | Peterson's LLC Department of War Technical EvaluationBest-Value / Source Selection | Department of War | Sustained | |
| Sep 24, 2026. | B-424612B-424612.2B-424612.3 | Turning Point Global Solutions, L.L.C. Department of Homeland Security Technical EvaluationBest-Value / Source SelectionOrganizational Conflict of Interest | Department of Homeland Security | Sustained in part | |
| Sep 22, 2026. | B-424146.2B-424146.3 | Tetra Tech, Inc. Environmental Protection Agency Technical EvaluationPast Performance | Environmental Protection Agency | Dismissed in part | |
| Sep 22, 2026. | B-424657 | Advantix Engineering, Corp. Army Responsibility / Responsiveness | Army | Denied | |
| Sep 22, 2026. | B-424583B-424583.2B-424583.3 | Keta Environmental and Infrastructure, LLC Army Best-Value / Source SelectionDiscussions / Competitive Range | Army | Denied |
The Government Accountability Office resolves bid protests and publishes its decisions at gao.gov. Every case here links to the official decision.
31 U.S.C. §§ 3551–3557 — the statute giving GAO jurisdiction to decide bid protests of federal procurements.
GAO's procedural rules for filing and deciding bid protests: timeliness, standing, the protective order, and the decision schedule.
Federal Acquisition Regulation Part 33 governs the agency-level and GAO protest process and corrective action.
GAO's annual report to Congress on protest volume, the most common grounds, sustain rates, and the effectiveness rate.
Source-selection, evaluation, and discussions rules under FAR Part 15 sit at the heart of most negotiated-procurement protests.