Skyladder Corporation—Protests and Costs (B-423498.2; B-423498.3)
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Category: Technical compliance, interested party, protest costs
Date: 13 August 2025
URL: https://www.gao.gov/products/b-423498.2%2Cb-423498.3
Skyladder challenged DLA Aviation’s award of a wiring‑harness delivery order to GE and sought protest costs. GAO dismissed the protest as Skyladder admitted it could not meet the sixty‑day urgent delivery and therefore was not an interested party to contest other issues. The record supported the agency’s sixty‑day requirement to alleviate work stoppages. GAO further denied Skyladder’s request for protest costs, because DLA took prompt corrective action on the initial protest before its report was due.
Protest dismissed on merits and request for costs denied.
Digest
- Protest is dismissed where protester cannot meet the agency’s urgent delivery schedule and thus is not an interested party.
- Costs denied where agency took prompt corrective action.
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