Joe Petrillo: Two seconds too late for bid protests

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Joe Petrillo: Two seconds too late for bid protests

June 25, 2015 9:46 am

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Sometimes a second is all it takes. Both the Government Accountability Office and Small Business Administration recently denied protests because the original bids arrived too late. In one case, a reverse auction bid was placed with one second left on the clock, but ruled ineligible because it was received seconds too late. Procurement attorney Joe Petrillo, a partner at the law firm Petrillo and Powell, joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more on these classic cases.