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B-418583.2 Mar 22, 2021 1 (2021-03-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaolhs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1O o U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: SAGAM Securite Senegal File: B-418583.2 Date: March 22, 2021 Thomas A. Coulter, Esq., and Ryan J. Starks, Esq., Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP, for the protester. John W. Cox, Esq., Department of State, for the agency. Lois Hanshaw, Esq., and Evan C. Williams, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's cancellation of solicitation is untimely where notice of the basis of protest was received during protester's normal business hours, but protest was filed more than 10 calendar days after receipt of the agency's email notification; for purposes of our timeliness rules, the filing deadline imposed by our regulations is not tolled where the recipient's email system generated an automatic response indicating that the recipient was on leave. DECISION SAGAM Securite Senegal (SAGAM) of Dakar, Senegal, protests the cancellation of solicitation No. 19AQMM18R0332, issued by the Department of State for local guard services for the U.S. Embassy in Dakar. The protester contends that the agency erred in deciding to cancel the solicitation in response to discovering a violation of the Procurement Integrity Act (PIA). We dismiss the protest as untimely because it was filed more than 10 calendar days after the protester knew, or should have known, the basis for its protest. BACKGROUND The undisputed facts are as follows. On December 2, 2020, the contracting officer emailed the director of operations (director) for SAGAM to provide notice that the

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