A firm protested an Environmental Protection Agency contract award for graphics services. GAO held that the protester untimely protested more than 10 days after initial adverse agency action on its agency-level protest. Accordingly, the protest was dismissed...

PROCUREMENT - Bid Protests - GAO procedures - Protest tiemliness - 10 day rule - Adverse agency actions DIGEST: A protest to the General Accounting Office that was not filed within 10 days after protester should have known of initial adverse agency action on agency-level protest is untimely. Signal's initial protest to the contracting officer was denied by letter dated January 3. Signal's protest...