B-231201.2: May 20, 1988

A firm requested reconsideration of its dismissed protest under a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) solicitation for audiovisual services. GAO had held that the protester failed to timely provide a copy of its protest to FAA. In its request for reconsideration, the protester contended that: (1) it mailed one copy and later delivered another copy of its protest to FAA; and (2) its protest warra...

B-231201.2: May 20, 1988

Protest properly was dismissed where the protester failed to provide a copy to the contracting agency within 1 day of filing at the General Accounting Office. Mailing a copy to the agency is not sufficient. Significant-issue exception in Bid Protest Regulations applies only to protests that are untimely filed. There is no equivalent provision for waiving the requirement to provide a copy of the pr...