B-233905: Jan 11, 1989

A firm protested a Navy contract award for diesel engines, contending that the awardee's product did not comply with all of the specifications. GAO would not consider the protest, which the protester untimely filed 4 months after it filed its agency-level protest. Accordingly, the protest was dismissed...

B-233905: Jan 11, 1989

The protester did not diligently pursue the matter and its protest with GAO is untimely. US Motors was informed that the offered engine was the Cummins NT855G3. A protester is not permitted to delay filing a protest with our Office until it eventually receives a decision from the contracting agency. We have dismissed protests where a protester waited 3 months to file at the General Accounting Offi...