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Legal and Administrative Remedies<br />
GAO Review <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> Agency Award Protest<br />
Procedures and Practices<br />
Recommendati<strong>on</strong> 20. C<strong>on</strong>duct periodic reviews<br />
by GAO <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> agency award protest<br />
procedures and practices.<br />
GAO c<strong>on</strong>ducts hundreds <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> independent audits<br />
and reviews <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> executive branch programs<br />
that are "intended to give <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> C<strong>on</strong>gress, as<br />
well as <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> agency heads, an objective appraisal<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> operati<strong>on</strong>s <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> agency or activity<br />
covered which ... need c<strong>on</strong>gressi<strong>on</strong>al or executive<br />
branch attenti<strong>on</strong>."" However, GAO does<br />
93 Statement <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> Hen, Elmer B. staats, Comptroller General <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> United States, Hearings <strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Capability <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> GAO to AnalYze<br />
not regularly c<strong>on</strong>duct comprehensive reviews<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> agency award protest procedures and practices.<br />
We believe that periodic, objective appraisal<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> agency award protest procedures and practices<br />
is desirable as a means <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> calling attenti<strong>on</strong><br />
to management practices that must be<br />
corrected if protests are going to be reduced.<br />
Such a regular review would assist in achieving<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> comprehensive and coordinated set <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
award protest procedures that <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> award protest<br />
system needs.<br />
and Audit DeffJn8e ExpendituTC6 Before <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> SubC01nm. <strong>on</strong> Executive<br />
Reorganizati<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Senate Com?uittee or. <strong>Government</strong> OPerati<strong>on</strong>s,<br />
stst C<strong>on</strong>g., 1st Sese., Exhibit I, at 29 (1969).<br />
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