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B-406449 1 (2012-05-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadovv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been approved for public release. D e c i s i o n L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Onsite OHS File: B-406449 Date: May 30, 2012 John R. Tolle, Esq., and Bryan R. King, Esq., Barton, Baker, Thomas & Tolle, LLP, for the protester. Gabriel D. Soil, Esq., H. Jack Shearer, Esq., Michael Ling, Esq., and Anh Nguyen, Esq., Department of Energy, for the agency. Eric M. Ransom, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protester's contention that the agency improperly failed to consider its proposal is denied where the agency did not receive the proposal due to the protester's misuse of the FedConnect web portal specified as the method of submission for proposals under the solicitation. DECISION Onsite OHS, of Princeton, Indiana, protests the failure of the Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, to evaluate its proposal under request for proposals (RFP) No. DE-SOL-0003038, for operational emergency medical support and training services. We deny the protest. The agency issued the RFP on June 9, 2011, via FedConnect and Fedbizopps, and instructed offerors to submit their proposals via FedConnect. RFP at 42, 58. FedConnect is a centralized web portal where vendors seeking to do business with the Federal Government can search for contract opportunities. Vendors can also submit solicitation responses directly through the FedConnect system. As explained in the FedConnect tutorial, and as relevant here, the FedConnect system has two distinct communication features: a response center for creating responses to solicitations, and a message center, for asking questions related to a solicitation. According to the tutorial, when an offeror correctly submits a proposal

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