The U.S. Army needed 10 months to award a contract following a July 2022 request for proposals for flow cytometry and other clinical lab equipment, but Beckman Coulter Inc., filed an appeal that protested the award to Sysmex America Inc., of Lincolnshire, Ill. Beckman Coulter argued that Sysmex should have been disqualified from the bidding for failing to provide a technically acceptable proposal, but the Government Accountability Office decreed that the company’s protest failed because it was not filed within the required 10 days post-award.