B-227022.3,B-227022.4: Feb 23, 1988

A firm requested reconsideration of its dismissed protest against an Air Force contract award for transformers, and a second firm protested the same award. GAO had held that the first protester failed to timely furnish a copy of its protest to the Air Force. In its request for reconsideration, the first protester contended that: (1) it timely sent a copy of its protest to the Air Force; and (2) th...

B-227022.3,B-227022.4: Feb 23, 1988

Dismissal of protest for failure to file a copy with the contracting agency within 1 working day after filing of protest with the General Accounting Office is affirmed since an attempt to transmit a copy via telefacsimile machine. Protest must be filed with General Accounting Office within 10 working days of tiMe protester knew or should have known of basis for protest. Explicitly require that a p...