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Accuntabiity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States
United States Government Accountability Office
Washington, DC 20548
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Decision
Matter of: Piedmont Hoist & Crane
File: B-400563
Date: October 8, 2008
Roger H. Payne for the protester.
David L. Bell, Esq., Naval Facilities Engineering Command, for the agency.
Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest that agency improperly refused to consider the protester's late quotation is
denied where the agency already had made award prior to receipt of the protester's
quotation, and the delay in receipt of the quotation (which was sent electronically)
was due to the protester's decision to modify the email address specified in the
solicitation for submission of quotations.
DECISION
Piedmont Hoist & Crane (PHC) protests the rejection of its quotation as late by the
Department of the Navy, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, under request for
quotations (RFQ) No. N40085-08-Q-1799 for design and installation of a two-ton
bridge crane at Cherry Point, North Carolina.
We deny the protest.
On August 5, 2008, the Navy posted the RFQ on the FedBizOpps website. The RFQ
specified a closing date and time of 2 p.m., August 21. The RFQ contained
instructions for submission of quotations, including the notice that [e]lectronic bids
may be submitted to the following email address: roicc chpt ktr bids@navy.mil by
the time stated on the [standard form] 18. RFQ at 7. The electronic version of the
RFQ included a blue, underlined hyperlink for the email address. With the cursor
placed over the hyperlink for the email address, it appears as
roiccchpt-ktr bids@navy.mil, clearly showing the underscoring of the otherwise
blank spaces between characters. The agency received one quotation, from Mid-
Atlantic Crane, which received the award on September 3.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobadapm0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)