Awards, protests and debriefs

After submission the useful information arrives in the award notice, the debrief and the bid tabulation. A federal debrief has deadlines in FAR 15.505 and 15.506; a state or county bid tab is usually a public record you can request. This category covers how to ask for a debrief that gets a useful answer, when a protest is worth filing, what a bid tabulation tells you, and how to track a recompete.