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Summary: Short of protesting a contract award to a competitor, there's nothing a contractor can do when it gets a bad performance rating. Well, not quite. But remedies beyond appealing to the contracting officer can turn into a bureaucratic donnybrook. For more, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turns to Joseph Petrillo, a procurement attorney with Petrillo and Powell and a consultant for his new blog, Patterns of Procurement.