What is the GAO protest sustain rate?

Since 2024-01-01, PrimeRFP SCOUT counts a federal merit sustain rate of 13.9% — 36 sustains out of 259 merit decisions, across 327 published protests. Pulled October 16, 2026.

What is the DoD protest sustain rate?

DoD’s merit sustain rate in the same window is 13.8% (21 of 152 merit decisions; 187 protests).

What is the VA protest sustain rate?

VA’s merit sustain rate is 8.1% — 3 of 37 merit decisions, across 45 protests. The query used agency=“Department of Veterans Affairs”.

Does PrimeRFP publish CPARS scores?

No. SCOUT does not have CPARS. Performance-adjacent public intel on this site is protest decisions and protest-risk notes on contract briefs — not contractor performance assessments.

Can I see protests for one company?

Company-level protest lists are an on-demand company-page / SCOUT tool path (list_protest_decisions). They are not looped for all 35,000 public company pages in the monthly refresh.

GAO protests · since 2024-01-01 · October 16, 2026

GAO protest sustain rates

Since 2024-01-01, PrimeRFP SCOUT counts 327 published GAO protest decisions with a merit sustain rate of 13.9% (36 of 259 merit decisions). DoD is 13.8% (21 of 152). VA is 8.1% (3 of 37 merit decisions across 45 protests). These are aggregate rates — not CPARS, and not a company-by-company docket.

Data as of October 16, 2026Decisions on or after 2024-01-01PrimeRFP SCOUT · get_protest_sustain_rates

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327

Federal protests in window

13.9%

Federal merit sustain

13.8%

DoD merit sustain

8.1%

VA merit sustain

Merit sustain = sustains ÷ (sustains + denies). Withheld when merit decisions < 5.

Scope	Protests	Merit decisions	Sustains	Merit sustain rate
All federal	327	259	36	13.9%
Department of Defense	187	152	21	13.8%
Department of Veterans Affairs	45	37	3	8.1%

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VA’s 8.1% merit sustain rate is 3 sustains in 37 merit decisions. The abbreviation agency=VA returned 0 on 2026-08-22; the published VA row uses the full department name. Company-level protest lists stay on the company sink. This page will never be titled CPARS.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the GAO protest sustain rate?: Since 2024-01-01, PrimeRFP SCOUT counts a federal merit sustain rate of 13.9% — 36 sustains out of 259 merit decisions, across 327 published protests. Pulled October 16, 2026.
What is the DoD protest sustain rate?: DoD’s merit sustain rate in the same window is 13.8% (21 of 152 merit decisions; 187 protests).
What is the VA protest sustain rate?: VA’s merit sustain rate is 8.1% — 3 of 37 merit decisions, across 45 protests. The query used agency=“Department of Veterans Affairs”.
Does PrimeRFP publish CPARS scores?: No. SCOUT does not have CPARS. Performance-adjacent public intel on this site is protest decisions and protest-risk notes on contract briefs — not contractor performance assessments.
Can I see protests for one company?: Company-level protest lists are an on-demand company-page / SCOUT tool path (list_protest_decisions). They are not looped for all 35,000 public company pages in the monthly refresh.

Methodology

get_protest_sustain_rates since 2024-01-01, pulled October 16, 2026. Merit sustain = sustains ÷ (sustains + denies). VA requires the full department name. Not CPARS. Not a 35K-company docket.

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Data & Methodology

Federal contract and award data sourced from government procurement systems — including FPDS-NG, SAM.gov, and related federal data repositories. PrimeRFP SCOUT ingests, normalizes, and continuously updates records as agencies publish them. Reporting timelines vary by agency; some components (particularly DoD) carry a 60–90 day lag relative to award execution.

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All intelligence on this page and within SCOUT is filtered to federal contract awards whose current total award value is $100K or more. PrimeRFP applies this floor at the award level (on current_total_value_award), not per-transaction, so large awards split across many mid-size obligation lines are retained in full. PrimeRFP's own empirical sampling against the raw USASpending dataset shows this threshold captures 98%+ of total federal contract dollars while excluding a long tail of micro-purchases, small modifications, and administrative actions — the trade-off that makes market intelligence tractable without distorting the dollar picture. Coverage: 560,000+ active contract awards and 2.5M+ unique awardees, including small-business set-asides, task orders, and mid-market opportunities.

Award identification: Each record is keyed by federal Award ID (PIID). Task orders recorded as independent awards appear as separate rows. IDIQs and their task orders are tracked distinctly.

Why SCOUT dollar figures differ from published annual totals: Per-agency dollar figures on SCOUT intelligence pages aggregate all USASpending transaction records — including base contract awards, task orders, delivery orders, and modifications to existing contracts. Annual federal contract obligation figures cited in industry reports (e.g., FY2025: $833.8B per Bloomberg Government) count only new prime award actions in the fiscal year, excluding mods. An IDIQ vehicle (like OASIS+) carries no obligation at award — only task orders issued against it are counted. SCOUT's transaction-level aggregates are larger because they capture the full activity picture across a contract's lifecycle, making them useful for competitive analysis and pipeline sizing rather than year-over-year spending comparison.

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Merit sustain = sustains ÷ (sustains + denies). Withheld when merit decisions < 5.

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