Notice Regarding Changes to Protective Order

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Highlights

This notice describes relatively minor changes GAO made to its standard protective order to streamline the process by which protected information can be used in bid protest filed with the United States Court of Federal Claims and to recognize that dismissal of a protest is a possible sanction for violation of the terms of the protective order.