Wonderful posting! As to the "fair dealing" issue, more openness would go a long way to resolving most any matter. More openness in the debriefing would certainly go a long way to show industry that there was fair dealing in the source selection process. Just looking at the most recent annual report on bid protests by the GAO, the vast majority of protests filed (about 80%) are withdrawn before reaching a final decision. In some cases this is the result of corrective action taken by the agency and in other cases the protester withdraws once its counsel receives the agency report and gets the details of the evaluation process. If more detail was provided, it would save both sides considerable time and effort. While I am not advocating release of any information exempt from release under FOIA, a properly redacted decision document should be part of the debriefing to help the unsuccessful offerors better understand why they were not selected. I have even been involved in some debriefings where the evaluation of unsuccessful offeror's proposal contained in the proposal analysis report was provided as well as the source selection decision document. In that case, the agency did not want to have to deal with a protest on a classified program so it took extra measures to give the unsuccessful offerors as much information as possible. FAR 15.506 should contain more explicit release requirements, and it should establish more uniformity among agencies in the release of the evaluation record through the debriefing process. Debriefing processes even vary widely within some agencies. There should be consistency and more openness.