NOTICE CONCERNING GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE (GAO) BID PROTESTS

1. GAO is closed due to a lapse in appropriations. This includes the GAO bid protest office.
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 and reopens on October 6, an agency report due on October 3 would now be due October 8.