But is this true? Is the number of cases where projects fail due to court actions really so many that all this proactive pre-documentation to the nth degree is necessary? Or is it rather that there are too many lawyers and administrators employed, and they are seeing this as an opportunity to justify their own existence?
Nearly every contract award is challenged. Even if the challenge is not protracted, preparing for the inevitable challenge makes the whole process so expensive that it severely impacts the number and size of contracts an agency is able to pursue.
