Please join the Bid Protest Committee’s meeting January 21, 2028, from 12 pm to 1:30 pm at Miles & Stockbridge’s Pennsylvania Avenue office in Washington. The meeting will feature a panel on discussions and negotiated exchanges. Topics will include:

• What are discussions and when are they required
• Discussions versus clarifications
• Meaningful discussions
• Misleading discussions
• Unequal discussions
• Timing and prejudice issues affecting discussions-related protest grounds
• Discussions as a form of corrective action

We hope you can join us for this highly informative presentation.

Moderator: Adam Bartolanzo, Principal, Miles & Stockbridge

Panelists:

• Raymond Richards, Senior Attorney at the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
• David Gilkes, Assistant General Counsel, Defense Intelligence Agency
• Cara Sizemore, Partner, Wiley Rein LLP
• Tom Pettit, Senior Associate, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP

This is a hybrid in-person/remote meeting.