Use this version. He is glad nobody protested two recent IT procurements. He applauds contractors that voluntarily relinquished their due process rights.
Protests are expensive and time-consuming.
On these points, I take no issue. Nonetheless, Kelman misses the mark. If Kelman merely wanted to chronicle the death of the protest regime, he ignored ample ammunition. The volume of General Accounting Office protests continues to plummet, from more than 3,000 protests in 1993 to about 1,500 in 1998. It is unclear what prompted this dramatic trend.