A firm requested reconsideration of its dismissed protest of a Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) contract award to another firm for food services. GAO had held that the protester untimely filed its protest more than 1 month after BIA denied its agency-level protest. In its request for reconsideration, the protester contended that: (1) it timely filed its initial protest within 10 days of contract awa...

Request for reconsideration of a decision dismissing a protest as untimely is denied where protester was determined to be outside the competitive range and did not timely protest that decision. An untimely protest will not be considered under the significant issue exception to the bid protest timeliness rules since the issue raised is not of widespread interest to the procurement community. Shamro...