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B-201626 1 (1981-04-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjhz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: i.. THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES WASH INGTON. 0,.C. 20548 • I' J T CL FILE:B-201626 DATE: April 21, 1981 MATTER OF: Coventry Manufacturing Company, Inc. DIGEST: 1. [k~quest for reconsideration of prior decision is dismissed as untimely W rn filed more than 10 working days after protester is aware of basis for reconsideration. 2. Due process is satisfied by GAO Bid Protest Procedures which give reasonable notice and opportunity to be heard to protester and interested parties. Coventry Manufacturing Company, Inc. (Coventry), requests reconsideration of our decision in Coventry Manufacturing Company, Inc., B-201626, January 22, 1981, 81-1 CPD 44, in which the protester alleged that its bid was improperly determined nonresponsive because of a minor irregularity that it should have been given an opportunity to cure. We dismissed the protest filed with our Office on December 29, 1980, as untimely because it was not filed with our Office within 10 working days of formal or constructive notification of adverse agency action as is required by our Bid Protest Procedures. 4 C.F.R. § 20.2(a) (1980). Coventry now contends that its December 4, 1980, letter to the agency in response to the agency's letter in late November denying its protest constituted notice of its intention to appeal to our Office. Coventry further contends that our timeliness requirements deprived it of due process. Our Bid Protest Procedures require that a request for reconsideration be filed not later than 10 working days after the basis for reconsideration is known or should have been known, whichever is earlier. 4 C.F.R. § 20.9(b) (1980). Our prior decision in this matter ~l A

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