Failure to Timely Raise Challenge in Agency-Level Protest Sinks Protest at GAO; GAO B-415386, Native American Construction

Protest challenging the agency’s contract award is denied, where the protester failed to timely challenge the agency’s use of simplified FAR procedures for services defined as commercial items, and where the protester’s challenge to the agency’s use of FedBid for the procurement failed to state a valid basis for protest.