"The newest edition of the Government Accountability Office's annual bid protest report shows that a decade-long trend of declining protests continues. GAO saw 1,688 protests filed in fiscal year 2025, down 6% from the 1,803 filed in FY 2024. Except for fiscal 2023, when protests rose because of the CIO-SP4 contract, bid protests have dropped steadily by 40% since fiscal 2016."
"The argument in the 2025 NDAA is that there were too many protests without any merit. GAO pushed back on this idea in a letter to Congress. "We do not endorse creating a fee shifting process for bid protests because existing statutory authorities and bid protest procedures are sufficient to efficiently resolve and limit the adverse impacts of protests filed without a substantial legal or factual basis,""
GAO reported 1,688 bid protests filed in fiscal year 2025, a 6% drop from 1,803 in FY2024 and roughly 40% fewer protests than fiscal 2016. The decade-long decline continued despite periodic spikes such as fiscal 2023 driven by the CIO-SP4 contract. Possible contributors to the decline include enhanced defense debriefings, higher thresholds for task orders, and an electronic protest docket with filing fees. Congress asked GAO to study fee-shifting proposals in the FY2025 NDAA, but GAO opposed creating a fee-shifting process, noting existing authorities can limit baseless protests. Defense protests affect about 1.5% of DOD procurements.
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