In Appeals of LRV Environmental, Inc., the ASBCA considered the issue of whether or not the Government’s “reconsideration” of a contracting officer’s final decision acts to re-set the 90-day clock for jurisdictional purposes under the CDA. In LRV, the CO issued a final decision, and subsequently reconsidered a portion of that decision, leading the Board to conclude that “the decision was not truly final” and that “[w]hile there are no procedures set forth in the CDA for reconsideration of a decision, it is a well established principle that an administrative agency may reconsider its own decisions,” so the contractor’s 90-day appeal window as to the reconsidered claim runs from the latter decision.
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