The Defense Department is seeking legislation from Congress that would direct the U.S. Court of Federal Claims to adopt timeliness rules mirroring those of the Government Accountability Office, thereby forcing defense contractors to file bid protests with one or the other, but not both as current law allows. The action would prohibit contractors from "forum shopping" and reduce the time to "decide bid protests by avoiding unnecessarily repetitive protests," according to a legislative proposal package DOD sent to Congress on...
