What Is Corrective Action?
A remedy agencies often use to avoid or delay bid protests is corrective action. Normally taken when the agency believes it faces a strong protest, corrective action consists of the agency taking measures to correct the alleged procurement defect raised in the bid protest. When an agency offers to take corrective action, GAO will dismiss the protest as academic. For the protestor, corrective action is a win in that normally it results in some kind of re-evaluation of the award.
Challenging the Corrective Action
Various considerations should be taken into account when protesting an agency’s corrective action, not the least of which is that outcomes are highly fact driven. However, some guiding principles exist regarding reaonsableness, scope, and timeliness.
