{"id":902684,"date":"2024-05-14T16:19:23","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T22:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/?p=902684"},"modified":"2024-05-14T16:19:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T22:19:26","slug":"bid-protest-case-for-intervening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/bid-protest-case-for-intervening\/","title":{"rendered":"The Case for Intervening in Bid Protests: It\u2019s Almost Always the Right Call"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Katherine B. Burrows and Eric Valle | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pilieromazza.com\/the-case-for-intervening-in-bid-protests-its-almost-always-the-right-call\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">PilieroMazza<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019re a federal government contractor who just won a contract award. But, before you pop the champagne, there\u2019s a hiccup: a competitor filed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/bid-protests-in-georgia\/\">bid protest<\/a> challenging your award. \u201cOh, well,\u201d you think, \u201cthe government can surely defend my award; there\u2019s no reason for me to get involved.\u201d Think again.\u00a0<strong><em>This blog covers why contractors should step in and intervene when a bid protest challenges their awarded contract. It\u2019s not just about safeguarding your contract; it\u2019s also about ensuring you get compensated for your hard work.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a rare, published opinion<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pilieromazza.com\/the-case-for-intervening-in-bid-protests-its-almost-always-the-right-call\/#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a>&nbsp;granting a motion to intervene, the Court of Federal Claims explains exactly why awardees should almost always intervene in a bid protest:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As many decisions observe, in bid protests, the government and the offerors have distinct interests. Put simply, when the government acts as a market participant\u2014not as the sovereign\u2014its \u201cspecific litigation goals\u201d differ from those of offerors. The government wants to defend its procurement processes and receive contractual performance; the offerors want to receive an award and get paid for work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That difference creates an incentive for the government to make decisions in litigation that are not in the offerors\u2019 best interests. If forced to choose, the government would defend its institutional interest in agency procurement processes instead of the offerors\u2019 business interests. \u201cThe government might deny procedural errors that [an offeror] would concede and defend as harmless. Or the government might concede deficiencies in [an offeror\u2019s] proposal that [the offeror] would not admit to.\u201d The possibility of those conflicts should virtually always amount to \u201ca compelling showing that [an offeror\u2019s] interests may not be adequately protected by the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(citations omitted). That\u2019s about as simple and straightforward as it gets. As a prospective contractor, you want to intervene to protect your \u201caward and get paid for work\u201d and to make sure the government, which has a different interest, doesn\u2019t engage in a strategy that harms you, e.g., conceding deficiencies in your proposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If that wasn\u2019t convincing enough, however, the Court goes further still, highlighting another reason why awardees should almost always intervene:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Litigating a case involves innumerable decisions about what to emphasize and what to downplay, what to defend and what to concede, what to cite and what to omit, and what to include and what to cut. Parties with different interests (e.g., a bidder and a government agency) will make those calls differently, in light of privileged discussions with their own counsel. . . . [But even a] rough, high-level alignment of one litigant with another cannot possibly capture what goes on when parties and their lawyers present their cases. It is, therefore, unrealistic for the Court\u2014an impartial outside adjudicator\u2014to pronounce a party\u2019s litigation decisions good enough to suit a proposed intervenor with different interests, sitting on the sidelines without a full chance to participate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is to say, not only are your interests different from those of the government, but an attorney representing you in a protest may well engage in an entirely different strategy than a government attorney on similar issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You don\u2019t get to select the attorney who represents the government in a bid protest, but you can select an attorney to represent you, and you should almost always do so to protect your interests, which are different from those of the government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pilieromazza.com\/the-case-for-intervening-in-bid-protests-its-almost-always-the-right-call\/#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a>\u00a0Superior Optical Labs, Inc. v. 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But, before you pop the champagne, there\u2019s a hiccup: a competitor filed a bid protest challenging your award. \u201cOh, well,\u201d you think, \u201cthe government can surely defend my award; there\u2019s no reason for me to get&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/bid-protest-case-for-intervening\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Case for Intervening in Bid Protests: It\u2019s Almost Always the Right Call<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[9895,11612],"class_list":["post-902684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction-2","tag-advise-consult","tag-bid-protest","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Case for Intervening in Bid Protests: It\u2019s Almost Always the Right Call - Advise &amp; Consult, Inc.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"You just won a contract award. 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