B-228079.2: Sep 16, 1987

A firm requested reconsideration of its dismissed protest against a Veterans Administration (VA) contract award for cefazolin sodium. GAO had dismissed the protest because the protester failed to provide VA with a copy of it within 1 day of filing it with GAO. In its request for reconsideration, the protester contended that it mailed a copy of its protest to VA. GAO held that it properly dismissed...

B-228079.2: Sep 16, 1987

PROCUREMENT - Bid Protests - GAO procedures - Agency notification DIGEST: Dismissal of protest for protester's failure to file a copy of protest with contracting officer within 1 day after filing with General Accounting Office is affirmed. Whether the protester may have forwarded a copy within the necessary period is not relevant. Since the requirement is for receipt by the agency. Smith Kline con...