Billion Dollar Contract Bid Protest Rejected as Untimely
ArmorWorks Enterprises LLC, a Chandler, Arizona company that manufactures body armor, recently lost a federal bid protest filed in the Government Accountability Office (GA)) because the protest was untimely. ArmorWorks claimed that it lost the contract because of inadequate and inconsistent testing by the army. The contract was apparently worth as much as $1 billion. But, rejected the protest because it was not filed on time.
This case is a blatant example of the importance of filing a timely and complete bid protest.
@Scott Trimble
I don’t believe that was the issue. I believe that the protest was just late.
Did they not follow the guidelines outlined by the FAR’s for filing a formal protest with the GAO? and did they notify the Contracting Officer prior to filing the protest with the GAO, that they were filing a formal protest and request that the Contracting Officer make a final decision regarding the RFP/IFB’s bid evaluation process?