The 2017 National Defense Authorization Act signed by President Barack Obama on Dec. 23 establishes thresholds for protests of task orders cut against large civilian and military indefinite-delivery contracts, which could push some defense contracts away from civilian agency contracting vehicles, according to a contracting expert.
The NDAA, said Paul Khoury, a partner at Washington, D.C., law firm Wiley Rein, restores the Government Accountability Office’s ability to hear protests of task orders against civilian indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts over $10 million. The GAO’s authority to hear civilian task order protests officially expired at the end of September.
