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B-177284 1 (1973-04-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaadvx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: (.r> .COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES ,zVolW$-SNINGTON, D.C. 20145 -l7728 vr)APR 19 1973 The Honorable Arthur F, Dampson Acting Administrator, General C m r 1AAn g Services Admnnietration IkT)XCIMI9l vDUnu~ Dear Mr.W.8arpson: Enclosed is a copy of our decision of today to Donovan Construction Company and Incorporated Systems Company wherein we sustain the determination of your agency to consider certain tech- nica) proposals submitted pursuant to-step one of a twowstep formal advertising procurement. Briefly, the solicitation included a late technical proposal clause which provided that untimely proposals would be considered only ii' certain stated conditions were met, Two late proposals were received but neither of these proposals met the stated conditions. Neverthelesso on the strength of certain decisions of our Office, your aaenc' concluded that the provisions of the late technical proposal clawte need not be strictly enforced and that the two late prc posaln properly could be considered under step one, Ir. view of yr agency's reliance on our past decisions, we concluded that we could not obJe.:t to the consideration of these proposals by your agency, However, as indicated in our decision to the protester, we also believe that late technical proposl clauses usri in step one solic- itations nhcrld apropriately advice offerors of the rules to be applied with respect to late technical proposals and that late pro- posals received under step one should be treated in strict accordance with the provisions of such clauses. While we agree with your agency that it is in tie Government's bent interests to provtnt the elimi- nation of potentially qualified sources from the competitive base under step one, we do not believe the competitive system is well nerved by treating proposals under step one contrary to the terms of the solicitation. We believe that once the rules of the competition have been established they should be followed. Therefore, we re- commend that in future step one proceedings late technical proposals 5fhj net' C> iscicc~ltOr) f /~kzDop's a I(SJ

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