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B-178204 1 (1973-10-10)

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S.-,,,    .             rOMPTROL11 GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATE$
                                   WM3HINGTON. D.C. £AM&


        -13.1804                                        OcT 10 1973             .


        Centro Corporation
        1934 tanley Avenue                             N
        yton, (ao i45404                                                         ,
             Attention: Harry   o L eNjadn
                         President
        Oentlen Ia

             Your letter of July 20, 1973,e&nd prior correspondence9 requestd
        reconoideration of our letter  .1Ta?04 of June 13, 1973# which advised
        that your protest against the award of a contract to TecMolojy Inoore
        poroted under requeat for propoeals (RFP) f3.615-73-q-0584, ismued by
        Wright-Patteroon Air Force Bais was untimely under our Interim ld Pro.
        test Pr cedure and Btandards, 14 CFA 20,2(n), and wuud not be considered
        on the merits.

             Your protest w8it considered to be untiaely in the June 13 lettn'
        because it w filed in our Office on Ksrch 15p 1973, Tat date was
        qtter the *ard on March 9, 1973, the clooJig of best and final offers
        on March 2# 1973 and more important, the lotter of February 27, 1973#
        ro'm the contracting officer to all offerore confirming that the o**
        posite rat. baois for proposols about which you corvplained vumld not be

   a,        You contend that the letter of February 2  1973, shou  niot be
        considered to have not the time requireient It@ section 20.2(a) into
        notion because neither you nor tho Air Force considered your complaint
        upon which the February 27 letter we based a I rotest. However,
        although you may not have used the word protesb in your cmplatnt ad
        the Air Forcemay not have yieved the coplaint as a protest, the fact
        mins tu th letter of February 27 was an action on the comlaint
        and v   can dyer. aenoy action, Section 202,a) Is  pecfic that the
        protest be filed within 5 workdng ds of otification ofd  rse
        agency action.

             You have contended further that ee if the Februarj 27 letter ma
        * denial of a protest9 the lact eating on the protest w not held
        untfl March 5, 1973, and you did not learn of the result of that meet-
        lng until you received infointion cn March 15, 1973, that an imrd h0
        ben mde. In that regd, n52Cup C . One, 20, 23 (1972), our Offtoe
        stated:


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