A firm requested reconsideration of a prior decision in which its protest was dismissed as untimely. In its initial protest, the protester alleged deficiencies in the bid specifications of a Bureau of Indian Affairs solicitation. Although the original protest was filed with the procuring agency in a timely manner, the agency opened bids as scheduled without satisfying all of the protester's concer...

AGENCY'S OPENING OF BIDS WITHOUT TAKING ANY CORRECTIVE ACTION CONSTITUTES INITIAL ADVERSE AGENCY ACTION ON PROTEST AND PRIOR DECISION DISMISSING AS UNTIMELY SUBSEQUENT PROTEST FILED WITH GAO MORE THAN 10 DAYS AFTER PROTESTER KNEW OF BID OPENING IS AFFIRMED. 1980 WAS UNTIMELY AS IT WAS NOT FILED WITHIN 10 DAYS OF THE PROTESTER'S KNOWLEDGE OF INITIAL ADVERSE AGENCY ACTION ON ITS PROTEST TO THE AGENC...