Failure to Timely Challenge Agency’s Cost Realism Methodology and Solicitation’s Patent Ambiguity Sinks Protest; GAO B-413028.5, Planned Systems International Inc.

Protest challenging the agency’s award of 20 IDIQ contracts is dismissed as untimely, where the protester’s challenge to the agency’s methodology for evaluating cost and its challenge to an alleged ambiguity regarding the number of contracts to be awarded both should have been challenged prior to the deadline for proposal submission.