A firm requested reconsideration of a portion of a decision which sustained its protest against a Navy solicitation for ocean transportation services. GAO had sustained the protester's contentions that certain specifications were unduly restrictive, but had also dismissed a portion of the protest as untimely because the protester failed to file it within 10 days after the Navy denied an agency-lev...

PROCUREMENT - BID PROTESTS - GAO PROCEDURES - PROTEST TIMELINESS - 10 DAY RULE DIGEST: PRIOR DECISION HOLDING THAT A PROTEST AGAINST A SOLICITATION SPECIFICATION INITIALLY FILED 1 DAY BEFORE THE CLOSING DATE FOR THE RECEIPT OF PROPOSALS WITH THE PROCURING AGENCY WAS UNTIMELY WHERE THE AGENCY RECEIVED PROPOSALS ON THE SCHEDULED CLOSING DATE WITHOUT TAKING CORRECTIVE ACTION AND THE SUBSEQUENT PROTES...