A firm requested reconsideration of its dismissed protest of a Bureau of Prisons (BOP) contract award for residential community correction services. GAO had held that the protester failed to timely file its protest comments or notify GAO of its continued interest. In its request for reconsideration, the protester contended that GAO improperly dismissed its protest because BOP failed to provide it...

PROCUREMENT Bid Protests GAO procedures GAO decisions Reconsideration Comments timeliness Dismissal of protest because the protester failed to file comments in response to the agency report or express continued interest in the protest within the time required by the General Accounting Office Bid Protest Regulations is affirmed. Our Bid Protest Regulations are designed to provide the protester a fa...