ART - FEDERAL BID PROTESTS: IS THE TAIL WAGGING THE DOG?, 2016

The document titled "Fiscal Year 2013" is a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that provides information and analysis on various topics related to government procurement and bid protests. It covers a wide range of subjects including the politics of public management, multivariate data analysis, knowledge-based factors affecting procurement compliance, services sourcing performance, bid protests, federal contractor group calls for bid protest reforms, the Better Buying Power initiative, customer value and satisfaction, GAO bid protests overview, bid protest mechanism effectiveness and fairness, Department of Defense source selection procedures, Navy Littoral Combat Ship program, self-reports in organizational research, supplier evaluations, communication strategies to improve supplier performance, acquisition workforce strategy, understanding government contract source selection, GAO bid protests trends and analysis, Seaport Enhanced Program, contracting officer representatives, and competitive source selection. Additionally, the document includes interview questions for measurement scale development and informant demographics. These questions focus on the importance of avoiding bid protests, the reasons for this importance, the negative consequences of bid protests, any positive outcomes of receiving a bid protest, the fixation on avoiding bid protests by certain members of the source selection team, and the actions that would have been taken if there were no ability to protest. In response to the specific context provided, the document does not provide a direct answer to the question of whether any actions would have been done differently in the past on a source selection if there were no ability to protest. The document primarily focuses on providing information and analysis on government procurement and bid protests rather than discussing hypothetical scenarios.