Law360, New York (September 1, 2015, 5:36 PM EDT) -- Those who work in the protest world may have noticed an unusual occurrence recently. Rarer than a blue moon — indeed closer to a sighting of Halley's Comet — the Government Accountability Office granted a contractor's request for reconsideration in a protest case, see SCB Solutions Inc., B-410450.2, Aug. 12, 2015. This decision is worthy of attention, as it shows that requests for reconsideration in GAO protests are not an entirely hopeless endeavor. However, contractors should not get overly excited about the outcome or rush to file motions requesting that GAO reconsider adverse rulings on their own protests. Rather, the facts of SCB Solutions set it apart from the typical protest and further reinforce the notion that success on such requests occurs only in the rarest of circumstances....