Oready LLC--Reconsideration

B-424096.2 Jan 05, 2026 Jump To VIEW DECISION DOWNLOADS RELATED PAGES GAO CONTACTS Highlights Oready LLC, a small business of Las Vegas, Nevada, requests reconsideration of our decision in Oready, LLC, B-424096, Dec. 11, 2025 (unpublished decision), in which we dismissed as untimely a protest challenging the award of a contract under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 140L3925Q0086, issued by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, for online auction services. The requester contends that our decision failed to account for the agency's refusal to provide additional information regarding the contract award, which the requester argues created a new, distinct, and independently timely protest accrual date. Alternatively, the requester contends that its protest should have been considered under the good cause and significant issue exceptions to our timeliness rules. We dismiss the request as untimely filed. View Decision Decision Matter of: Oready LLC--Reconsideration File: B-424096.2 Date: January 5, 2026 Michael Faro, for the requester. William B. Blake, Esq., Department of the Interior, for the agency. Nathaniel S. Canfield, Esq., and Evan D. Wesser, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Request for reconsideration is dismissed as untimely where it was filed more than 10 days after the basis for the request was known or should have been known, and the requester has not shown that the Electronic Protest Docketing System experienced a technical failure, or was otherwise not available, during normal system operating hours when it attempted to file its request for reconsideration. DECISION Oready LLC, a small business of Las Vegas, Nevada, requests reconsideration of our decision in Oready, LLC, B‑424096, Dec. 11, 2025 (unpublished decision), in which we dismissed as untimely a protest challenging the award of a contract under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 140L3925Q0086, issued by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, for online auction services. The requester contends that our decision failed to account for the agency's refusal to provide additional information regarding the contract award, which the requester argues created a new, distinct, and independently timely protest accrual date. Alternatively, the requester contends that its protest should have been considered under the good cause and significant issue exceptions to our timeliness rules. We dismiss the request as untimely filed. BACKGROUND The agency issued the RFQ pursuant to the commercial products and commercial services procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 12. Oready, supra at 1; see also B‑424096 Electronic Protest Docketing System (EPDS or Dkt.) No. 7, RFQ.[1] On September 24, 2025, the agency provided the requester an “award email,” which provided details regarding the evaluation of the requester's quotation and provided the grounds for the underlying protest, which challenged the agency's evaluation of quotations and best‑value tradeoff analysis. Oready, supra at 1; Protest, exh. C, Email Correspondence at 3‑4. As the September 24 email provided the basis for the protest and the debriefing exception to our timeliness rules did not apply, the protest deadline was 10 days after September 24. Oready, supra at 1. That date, October 4, was a Saturday, and the protest filing deadline therefore was Monday, October 6. Oready, supra at 1; see also 4 C.F.R. § 21.0(d). Due to a lapse in appropriation, however, GAO was closed on October 6. Oready, supra at 1. A notice announcing the closure was posted to the EPDS website on October 1. Id. On that same day, EPDS sent an email to all active EPDS accounts, notifying users of the shutdown and providing the following guidance: 2. Beginning at noon on October 1, 2025, the Electronic Protest Docketing System (EPDS) will not be operational, and will be inaccessible during the time our Office is closed. Accordingly, no protest‑related documents may be filed or accessed through EPDS during the period of time that GAO is closed. 3. GAO will toll protest decision deadlines for a period of time equal to the length of time that GAO is closed. 4. Deadlines for the filing of new protests that fall on a day that GAO is closed are extended to the first day that GAO resumes operations. This extension operates in the same manner as when a deadline falls on a weekend or federal holiday. 5. Because EPDS will not be operational and the parties will be unable to access protest documents during a shutdown, any other filing deadline for an agency or private party (to include supplemental protest deadlines) that falls on a day that GAO is closed is extended by one day for every day that GAO was closed. For example, if GAO is closed starting on October 1, 2025, and reopens on October 6, an agency report due on October 3, would now be due October 8. Id.