[Request for Reconsideration of Army Proposal Evaluation]

A firm requested reconsideration of a prior decision which denied its protest of the Army's evaluation of proposals received in response to a solicitation for target flight services. Bid protest procedures require that requests for reconsideration be filed within 10 working days after the basis for reconsideration is known. The requester admitted that its request was untimely under that rule; however, it asked that the time requirement be waived. While bid protest procedures provide for consideration of untimely protests where a significant issue is involved or good cause is shown, there is no similar provision regarding untimely requests for reconsideration. Instead, the timeliness standards for the filing of requests for reconsideration are purposefully less flexible than those for filing protests, or for meeting intermediate case development and processing deadlines. Accordingly, the untimely request for reconsideration was dismissed.