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B-207898.4 1 (1983-05-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlbn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION .OF THU UNITED STATES - THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL Y1 ' WASHINGTON. O.C. 20548 FILE: B-207898.4 DATE: May 17, 1983 MATTER OF: Ensign Aircraft Company DIGEST: Request for reconsideration is denied where protester presents no new information or error of law not fully considered in reaching prior decision. Ensign Aircraft Company requests reconsideration of our decision Ensign Aircraft Company, B-207898.3, April 1, 1983, 83-1 CPD , in which we dismissed as untimely Ensign's protest concerning the Air Force's procurement of a Next Generation Trainer (NGT) under Request for Proposals (RFP) No. F33657-81-R-0395. We deny Ensign's request for reconsideration because it presents no facts which were not previously considered or errors of law in the original decision. 4 C.F.R. § 21.9.(a) (1983). In dismissing Ensign's protest we relied principally on § 21.2(b)(2) of our Bid Protest Procedures (4 C.F.R. § 21.2(b)(2)) which provides that protests must be filed within 10 working days after the basis for protest is known or should have been known. The. protest, which largely concerned Ensign's elimination from the competitive range and alleged deficiencies in the successful offeror's design, was not filed with our Office until August 25, 1982, even though the Air Force had informed Ensign in March of its elimination and Ensign knew of most of the alleged design defects by May. In requesting reconsideration, Ensign maintains that its protest was timely because it initiated the protest on the basis of information furnished at a debriefing con- ducted by the Air Force on August 11, 1982. The time to protest should run from that date, Ensign argues, because:

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