B-230855: Apr 8, 1988

A firm protested the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) procurement procedures under a solicitation for towers, contending that: (1) FAA should have procured the towers under the protester's current contract with the Department of Transportation; and (2) the towers FAA solicited were obsolete, expensive, and inefficient. GAO held that the protester untimely filed its protest more than 10 days...

B-230855: Apr 8, 1988

PROCUREMENT - Bid Protests - GAO procedures - Protest timeliness - 10 day rule - Adverse agency actions DIGEST: Protest is untimely when it is filed with the General Accounting Office more than 10 days after the initial adverse agency action on the protest to the agency. TSL also alleges that the towers to be procured in the protested solicitation are obsolete. Bid opening was March 7. Define adve...