Federal Circuit Rejects “Narrowly Tailored” Standard of Review for Corrective Action

A recent decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reasserted the arbitrary and capricious standard of review for agency corrective action in response to a bid protest before the Government Accountability Office, rejecting a nascent line of cases applying a heightened standard of review to assess the reasonableness of an agency’s corrective action in the context of multiple award indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contracts.