Entry #0002 · GAO

The Eternal Protest

A GAO bid protest filed in 2020 with a 100-day due date is still listed as open six years later.

Part of GOV422, a catalog of errors we find in federal procurement data.

GOV422
Unprocessable entity
#0002
Record detail
"status"
invalid value: "Case Currently Open"
"filed_date"
"2020-02-10"
"due_date"
invalid value: "2020-05-20"
"file_number"
"B-418462.1"
"source"
"GAO"
Goldschmitt & Associates filed a bid protest in February 2020. GAO set a due date of May 20, 2020. Six years later, the case is still listed as Currently Open on the GAO website. To be fair, a lot of things stopped getting resolved in mid-March 2020.

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