1. CMS Program Status Update: SPARC
Don Knode, OAGM Information Technology Contracts Group Director
Topic: FAR Updates, Debriefings, and Protests
Speakers:
Maria Swaby, Suspension and Debarment Official for General Services Administration
Dick Ginman, NCMA National Board of Directors, Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy (DPAP) Office of the Under Secretary of Defense
Jean Lohier, Sr Contracts Manager, AT&T

2. Increase in GAO Protests

3. GAO Bid Protest Statistics
FY 2016
FY 2015
FY 2014
FY 2013
FY 2012
Protest Filings
2,789
(up 2% )
2,639
(up 3%)
2,561
(up 5%)
2,429
(down 2%)
2,475
Merit (Sustain + Deny) Decisions
616
587
556
509
570
Number of Sustains
139 68 72 87
106
Sustain Rate
22.56%
12%
13%
17%
18.6%

4. GSA Agency Protest Decisions by Fiscal Year

5. Grounds for GSA Agency Protests, FY 2012-2017

6. Putting Protests into Perspective
Fiscal Year
Total # of GSA Procurements
Total # Protests Filed at GAO with GSA as a Party
Total # of Agency Level Protests
Estimated Ratio of Protests to Procurements at GSA
2014
165,833
153 9
0.1%
2015
160,971
101
0.07%
2016
160,081
123 17
0.09%
2017
157,582 92 13