May 2025 Bid Protest Sustain of the Month: In a Sustain-less Month, a Masterclass in How Not to Protest

Crowell & Moring – In this installment in Crowell & Moring’s Bid Protest Sustain of the Month Series, Crowell Consultant (and former GAO Bid Protest Hearing Officer) Cherie Owen discusses GAO’s May 2026 decision in Mission Analytics, LLC—Recon., where a protest filing that missed GAO’s deadline by just 50 seconds set off a chain of procedural missteps that ultimately produced five dismissals across a single procurement, and offers some of the most practical filing guidance GAO has put to paper in recent memory.