B-232629.2: Oct 19, 1988

A firm requested reconsideration of its dismissed protest against an Air Force solicitation for road repair. GAO had held that the protester untimely filed its protest more than 10 days after the Air Force denied its agency-level protest. In its request for reconsideration, the protester contended that GAO should consider its protest's merits under the significant-issue exception to protest timeli...

B-232629.2: Oct 19, 1988

PROCUREMENT - Bid Protests - GAO procedures - Protest timeliness - Significant issue exemptions - Applicability DIGEST: An untimely protest alleging an unduly restrictive requirement will not be considered under the significant issue exception to the bid protest timeliness rules where the issue of restrictiveness raised by the protester does not appear to be of widespread interest to the procureme...