United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao_comptroller_general legislative 2016-06-24 U.S. Government Publishing Office 2006-08-11 monographic deposited born digital 5 p. GA 1.13:B-298522 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-298522 P0b002ee18fd4e8cf f:298522 DGPO 2016-06-24 2016-06-24 GAOREPORTS-B-298522 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-298522 B-298522 Comptroller General Decision Protest complaining that selection of the awardee's proposal under a procurement in 2001 was the result of the source selection authority's (SSA) bias in favor of the awardee is dismissed as untimely, where (1) protester initially challenged the agency's award decision in a protest filed with GAO in 2001 and withdrew its protest after reviewing the evaluation record, which showed that evaluation ratings had been changed in a way that appeared to favor the awardee; and (2) the SSA publicly admitted in 2004 to being biased in favor of the awardee as result of favors that she had received. The later issuance in 2006 of a report by the Department of Defense Inspector General that confirmed that the SSA's bias extended to the procurement at issue in this protest does not provide an independent basis for a timely protest, where the protester knew or should have known the basis of its protest allegation after the SSA's 2004 admission of bias in favor of the awardee. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-298522/html/GAOREPORTS-B-298522.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-298522/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-298522.pdf GAO/B-298522 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-298522 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-298522; B-298522, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., August 11, 2006;