GAO Bid Protest Annual Report to the Congress for Fiscal Year 2009

This letter responds to the requirement of the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984, 31 U.S.C. 3554(e)(2) (2006), that the Comptroller General report to Congress each instance in which a federal agency did not fully implement a recommendation made by our Office in connection with a bid protest decided the prior fiscal year. There was one such occurrence in fiscal year 2009, regarding our recommendation in Mission Critical Solutions, B-401057, May 4, 2009, 2009 CPD 93, recon. denied, Small Business Administration-Recon., B-401057.2, July 6, 2009, 2009 CPD 148. We reported the matter to Congress on October 23,2009, pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 3554(e)(1).