Government Contract Bid Protest

ALABAMA PROCUREMENT-PROTEST PREPARATION PACKET

DO NOT FILE: This packet records regime, deadline, record, issue, prejudice, remedy, and approval decisions.

1. Procurement and Notice Control

☐ Every solicitation document, amendment, incorporated term, question, answer, submission, evaluation, notice, posting, debriefing, and delivery record was preserved.

2. Procurement-Regime Classification

☐ State central procurement

☐ State agency delegated procurement

☐ County, municipality, school, university, authority, board, commission, or other local / special body

☐ Public works, construction, professional services, technology, goods, services, lease, concession, grant, cooperative, emergency, sole-source, or other specialized route

☐ Procurement predating or outside a newer statutory framework

☐ Federal-funds, federal-clause, tribal, interstate, or mixed regime

☐ Contract-administration claim rather than solicitation / award protest

☐ Other: [________________________________]

Approved regime and protest route: [________________________________]

3. Current Official Source Register

☐ Pending, enacted, recently effective, procurement-specific, local, and solicitation changes were checked.

4. Standing and Protester-Status Gate

5. Deadline and Trigger Matrix

☐ Issuance, posting, actual notice, receipt, debriefing, discovery, award, execution, and performance dates were not treated as interchangeable triggers.

6. Filing, Service, and Record-Access Map

7. Procurement Record and Event Timeline

8. Ground, Evidence, Prejudice, and Remedy Matrix

Do not import federal protest grounds, prejudice tests, burdens, or remedies without current Alabama support.

Potential issues to investigate:

☐ Solicitation ambiguity, restriction, specification, amendment, notice, competition, or procurement-method issue

☐ Responsiveness, responsibility, eligibility, preference, certification, conflict, or disqualification issue

☐ Evaluation criteria, scoring, discussions, clarification, unequal treatment, math, ranking, or best-value issue

☐ Advertising, opening, disclosure, debriefing, record, ethics, bias, or ex parte issue

☐ Sole-source, emergency, cooperative, exemption, threshold, public-works, or local-law issue

☐ Award, cancellation, execution, performance, funding, or remedy issue

9. Procurement Pause and Interim-Relief Screen

10. Proposed Operative Protest Content Map

11. Decision and Review Handoff

12. Operative Document and Approval Record

This packet remains non-operative. List every separately prepared notice, protest, appeal, stay request, or court filing.

13. Completion Checklist

☐ Procuring entity, regime, solicitation, protest clause, bidder status, trigger, and deadline are verified

☐ Filing, service, record access, grounds, evidence, prejudice, pause, override, and remedies use current official authority

☐ State, agency, local, public-works, exempt, federal-funded, and contract-claim routes were not conflated

☐ Federal protest standards, automatic stay, direct award, bid costs, attorney fees, and court remedies were not assumed

☐ Administrative tiers and court review remain separate with independent deadlines and filings

☐ Every operative notice, protest, appeal, or filing was separately approved, submitted, and preserved with proof

END OF NON-OPERATIVE PREPARATION PACKET