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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