The Defense Department wants to prevent companies that lose bid protests with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) from seeking remedy by suing in federal court.As part of its legislative proposals for the fiscal year 2017 defense authorization bill, the Pentagon wants to impose timeliness rules at the Court of Federal Claims (CoFC) that would mirror those for bid protests filed with GAO. DoD essentially wants losing contractors to pick one avenue or the other, GAO or CoFC, and have 10…
