Procurement Integrity Act Violations (Post-Award Protest Primer #15)

Offerors should, and generally do, carefully guard the confidentiality of their bid and proposal information.  And agencies that receive that information generally are careful to prevent its improper release, much as they guard against release of other source selection sensitive information.  The Procurement Integrity Act (PIA) governs aspects of the protection of this information, and a PIA violation can form the basis of a bid protest.