Bid Protest Lawyers

Representing Contractors in Government Bid Protests in Washington, D.C. and Nationwide.

After competing for a government contract, you realize that something has gone wrong. The bidding process was unfair or the source selection team did not follow the bidding rules. You are now faced with filing a GAO bid protest or maybe a size appeal.

The government contract attorneys at Watson & Associates, LLC frequently represent small businesses and medium-sized in bid protests for several years. Our law firm has in-depth and experience with the procurement process. We can represent or defend against a bid protest on your behalf. We offer free initial consultations and flat rates.

Navigating the GAO Bid Protest Process

The bidding process requires you to follow specific criteria or risk non-compliance. Similarly, government agencies must follow specific laws and regulations to determine which company is legally entitled to the award. As former government contracting executives, our practice group understands the mistakes that agencies make. Having experience on both sides puts our bid protest lawyers lawyers in a better position to aggressively assert your rights.

Watson & Associates will help you through all stages of process including:

• Intervening and requesting report from government agency outlining their bidding process, bids received and rationale for awarding the contract.
• Pursuing corrective action by the government agency awarding the contract.
• Protesting contract bidding process at the General Accounting Office (GAO).

We protect our clients’ interests when they are wrongly denied government contracts. We also intervene/ defend businesses that have been properly awarded a contract when other companies protest.

Watson & Associates, LLC has successfully represented companies in GAO  protests. We will help you to carefully analyze your case before submitting a protest. Our law firm can handle matters pertaining to:

• Non-responsive bids
• Competitive range determinations
• Pre-award protest (improper NAICS Code and overly restrictive)
• The Government’s unequal treatment of bidders
• Bid mistakes
• The Government’s failure to conduct meaningful discussions
• Best value procurements, including cost/technical trade-offs
• Cost and/or price realism analyses
• Past performance evaluations
• Organizational and/or personal conflicts of interest
• Restrictive specifications
• Deviations from the announced evaluation criteria
• Failure to consider information submitted in your bid proposal
• Improper technical evaluations
• Unsupported trade-off decisions
• Failure to properly apply evaluation criteria set forth in the solicitation
• Failure to conduct meaningful discussions
• Conflict of interest
• Unduly restrictive solicitations
• Improper best value determinations …and more.

SBA Size Protest and Appeals

If you believe that a company is unlawfully relying upon another contractor to perform the project, you can file a small business size protest to the SBA. This type of bid protest has a different set of rules and shorter deadlines. Our government contract attorneys will help you to develop a factual basis for the protest (speculation will get the protest dismissed) and guide you in the right direction. If you need a bid protest defense lawyer to protect your rights to the award, we will also provide aggressive defense to an SBA size appeal.

Nationwide Assistance to All Contractors

Watson & Associates has developed a reputation as the go-to government contract law firm for GAO protests or SBA size appeals. This is mostly true due to our ethical goal of minimizing unnecessary costs, our internal practice of honesty, trust and hard work. There is simply no need to retain a government contracts attorney in Washington, DC. In fact, Watson can represent defense contractors in Colorado, Wyoming; Washington State, California, Maryland, New Mexico, Kansas and Nebraska; New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Arkansas, Colorado Springs, Utah, Oklahoma, Ohio, Maine, Florida, Texas, Nevada, Maryland, Louisiana, Las Vegas, Georgia, Hawaii, Alaska, Washington, D.C., Wes, Virginia, Florida, Indiana, Washington State, Mississippi, California, Tennessee, Tampa, Miami, Virgin Islands, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, Virginia, Delaware, Connecticut, Arizona, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Montana.

Cities in which we practice bid protest law include Anchorage, AK; Atlanta, GA; Austin, TX; Chicago, IL; Colorado Springs, CO; Dallas, TX; Denver, Colorado; Indianapolis, IN; Las Vegas, NV; Los Angeles, CA; Miami, FL; Philadelphia, PA; San Antonio, TX; San Diego, CA; San Francisco, CA; San Jose, CA; Santa Clara, CA; and Tampa, FL.

For prompt action and decisive representation in a government contract bid protest, contact the attorneys at Watson & Associates, LLC. Call toll free 1-866-601-5518.