[Protest of GPO Failure to Request Extension of Offerer's Bid Acceptance Period]

A firm protested the Government Printing Office's (GPO) failure to request an extension of its bid acceptance period, and subsequent contract award to another bidder under a solicitation for routing labels, contending that GPO should have allowed it to extend its 3-day acceptance period, since: (1) it limited its acceptance period to be consistent with the scheduled award date; (2) an extension would not have prejudiced other bidders; and (3) in an earlier procurement, GPO allowed it to resubmit a bid. GAO held that GPO properly refused to extend the protester's acceptance period, since that would have prejudiced other bidders who offered the standard 60-day acceptance period. Accordingly, the protest was denied.