B-224027.7: Sep 28, 1987

A firm requested reconsideration of the dismissal of its protest against an Army contract award for ski bindings. GAO had held that the protester untimely filed after bid opening its protest concerning alleged procurement improprieties. GAO held that, since the Army was not required to open bids before bid opening, the allegations the protester raised in its bid did not constitute a timely protest...

B-224027.7: Sep 28, 1987

The General Accounting Office will not consider a protest that fails to set forth a detailed statement of the legal and factual grounds of protest. That are apparent prior to the closing date for receipt of initial proposals is untimely where not filed prior to that date. A protest included in the initial proposal is not a timely pre-opening protest. Since there is no requirement that the agency o...