https://www.gao.gov/products/123674

B-213371.2: Mar 19, 1984

A firm requested that GAO reopen a file on its protest against a Veterans Administration (VA) contract award. GAO had closed the file because the protester failed to send a timely reply to a request for a statement of its continued interest in the protest. The protester stated that the reply was delayed because it was erroneously sent to VA rather than to GAO. Because the comments were not forward...

https://www.gao.gov/products/457485

B-213371.2: Mar 19, 1984

DIGEST: THE FACT THAT A PROTESTER'S COMMENTS ON AN AGENCY REPORT WERE ERRONEOUSLY ADDRESSED AND SENT TO THE CONTRACTING AGENCY RATHER THAN GAO DOES NOT MERIT REOPENING A CASE WHICH WAS CLOSED BECAUSE THE PROTESTER DID NOT SEND A TIMELY INDICATION OF ITS CONTINUED INTEREST IN THE PROTEST TO GAO. (THIS REQUIREMENT IS ALSO CONTAINED IN OUR BID PROTEST PROCEDURES AT 4 C.F.R. RETURNED TO FIND THAT THE...