https://www.gao.gov/products/140277

B-237021: Dec 22, 1989

A firm protested a Coast Guard (USCG) contract award for inflatable life rafts, contending that: (1) USCG improperly used its proprietary data for the raft canopy; and (2) USCG should have purchased the rafts from it, since the awardee's product was not on the qualified products list. GAO held that the: (1) protester untimely filed its protest more than 10 days after initial adverse agency action...

https://www.gao.gov/products/420850

B-237021: Dec 22, 1989

That procurement should have been from qualified products list. Is dismissed as untimely where same allegations initially were raised in agency level protest. Subsequent protest to General Accounting Office was not filed within 10 working days after agency proceeded to accept bids. Which was initial adverse agency action. Bids were opened on September 1 and. Vinyl's was low at $473. 748.50 and Pat...