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B-291980 1 (2003-03-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacygk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Il im G A 0Comptroller General - -Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: GROH GmbH File: B-291980 Date: March 26, 2003 Henry Salisbury for the protester. Capt. Robert L. Stolzman, Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Tania Calhoun, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that contracting agency improperly rejected proposal sent by facsimile as late is denied where the record does not establish that the agency timely received the protester's proposal and where, in any event, the solicitation did not include the clause authorizing submission of proposals by facsimile; notwithstanding the e-mail advice sent to the protester by the agency's point of contact, authorization for submission of facsimile proposals concerns the preparation of proposals and must be furnished to all offerors. DECISION GROH GmbH protests as improper the rejection of its proposal as late under request for proposals (RFP) No. F61815-03-R-0002, issued by the Department of the Air Force for the repair of a military family housing playground at Mor6n Air Force Base, Spain. We deny the protest. The closing time and date for receipt of proposals under this solicitation was 4 p.m. on February 3, 2003. RFP amend. No. 0001 at 2. The solicitation's standard form (SF) 1442, Solicitation, Offer, and Award, stated that proposals were to be delivered to the place listed in block 8 of the form. RFP at 1. The information in block 8 simply referred offerors to block 7, which contained the street address, telephone number, and facsimile number of the agency's issuing office. Id. The solicitation incorporated Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) § 52.215-1, Instructions to Offerors-Competitive Acquisition. Among other things, this clause

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