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United States Government Accountability Office
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Decision
Matter of: Turner Consulting Group, Inc.
File: B-400421
Date: October 29, 2008
Daniel A. Turner, Turner Consulting Group, Inc., for the protester.
Jeffrey C. Morhardt, Esq., and Antoiner White, Esq., Department of Education, for
the agency.
Christina Sklarew, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Where a request for quotations contains a late submission clause and provides for
the electronic submission of quotations, an agency reasonably rejected protester's
quotation as late where there was no evidence that the quotation was received by the
time specified for the submission of quotations.
DECISION
Turner Consulting Group, Inc. of Washington, D.C. protests the Department of
Education's (DOE) rejection of its quotation under the agency's Technical Support
for the Budget Formulation and Execution Line of Business request for quotations.
We deny the protest.
The RFQ contemplated the award of an order to a General Services Administration
Federal Supply Schedule vendor in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation
(FAR) Subpart 8.4. The RFQ required that vendors submit their quotations
electronically to the contract specialist and the contracting officer by 12 p.m. on
Monday, July 21, 2008;' email addresses were provided for both agency recipients.
Vendors were cautioned that they were responsible for ensuring that quotations
were received by the agency at the specified date and time, and that [q]uotes
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