The State of Massachusetts recently took the unusual step of posting the results of its public bid protests in a searchable online database.
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Decisions Back to 2003: In an effort to provide greater transparency into the public contracting process, Attorney General Martha Coakley recently unveiled a new section of the AG's web site - The Bid Protest Decision Lookup - which provides an online interface to browse the AG's bid protest decisions going back to 2003 (with efforts under way to make decisions available back through 1989).
The Role of Bid Protests: In describing the vital role of bid protests in ensuring a fair and equitable public bidding process, AG Coakley pointed out,
"Our bid decisions provide guidance to state agencies, cities and towns, and contractors regarding the public construction bidding laws and provide insight to citizens into the ways in which their tax dollars are both spent and safeguarded."
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Interesting approach to transparency. I would like to see what percentage of protests actually resulted in changing the award outcome and, what the main reason for the protest was. In my experience I have seen a very small percent of challenges result in a change. The ones which did usually were based on fraudulent information or misrepresentations by the procurement officer or, the winning bidder.
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