CONTRACTS - PROTESTS - GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE PROCEDURES - TIMELINESS OF PROTEST - ADVERSE AGENCY ACTION EFFECT DIGEST: PROTEST IS DISMISSED WHERE PROTESTER FAILED WITHIN THE REQUIRED 10 WORKING-DAY PERIOD TO SUBMIT COMMENTS ON THE AGENCY REPORT OR TO REQUEST CONSIDERATION OF THE PROTEST WITHOUT COMMENT SUBMISSION. WAS ADVISED IN A LETTER FROM OUR OFFICE. THE PROTEST IS DISMISSED...

A firm protested a National Bureau of Standards contract award. The protester received a copy of the agency's report recommending denial of its protest and was advised that, if it wished to pursue the protest, it should submit its comments or a request for consideration of the protest without comments to GAO within 10 working days of its receipt of the report; however, the protester did not file i...