https://www.gao.gov/products/140078

B-236499: Nov 20, 1989

A firm protested a Forest Service timber sale, contending that it improperly accepted an untimely oral bid after the auction officer had begun closing the auction. GAO held that the Forest Service properly held the auction open to allow the bidder an opportunity to submit its bid. Accordingly, the protest was denied...

https://www.gao.gov/products/437714

B-236499: Nov 20, 1989

DAW contends that the auction officer improperly accepted Crown Pacific's bid after the auction officer had begun the auction closure statement and that DAW should have been awarded the timber sale contract based on the bid it submitted prior to the closure statement. 340 MBF of timber was offered under the Twin Lakes Sale. The oral auction was limited to bidding on the ponderosa pine. Six bidders...