B-203399.2: Jul 1, 1981

ORIGINAL DECISION DISMISSING PROTEST AS UNTIMELY IS AFFIRMED WHERE PROTESTER OFFERS NO FACTUAL OR LEGAL GROUNDS TO WARRANT REVERSAL. 2.PROTEST FILED SEVERAL WEEKS AFTER (1) ALLEGED ORAL PROTEST TO AGENCY REGARDING ALLEGEDLY RESTRICTIVE SPECIFICATIONS HAS BEEN RESOLVED PRIOR TO BID OPENING. IS UNTIMELY UNDER ANY GAO BID PROTEST PROCEDURE PROVISION AND THEREFORE IS NOT FOR CONSIDERATION ON MERITS. W...

B-203399.2: Jul 1, 1981

A firm requested reconsideration of a GAO decision in which its protest was dismissed as untimely. That protest was directed at the allegedly restrictive nature of the specifications, but was not filed until after the bid opening date, contrary to the requirements of bid protest procedures. The basis for the protester's request for reconsideration was that it had filed a verbal protest prior to bi...