As we reported on December 14, 2016, on December 8, the Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2017, which calls for changes to the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) jurisdiction over civilian agency and Department of Defense (DoD) task order protests. The President has yet to take action on the NDAA. Separate legislation has, however, already restored GAO’s protest jurisdiction over civilian task orders valued above $10 million, leaving only the issue of the threshold for DoD task order protests contingent on the fate of the 2017 NDAA.
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