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B-186867 1 (1977-01-10)

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                            THE  COMPTROLLER 0WUNAL
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DATE     waqar  WS 1917


IMATTER   OF: Lectragsmetics, Iacorporated


DIGEST:

1.   Written iequnst for reconsiderttijn of bid protest 'Jecision
     of this Office sent by certitte? Ciii is dismissed as un-
     timely becase it twitter wars riited at GAD within ten
     days after protester's recet ot that decision nor wa, sent
     within the time provided for mailing certified protects.

2.   Taephone  covresation, d a act satisfy requirement for
     filiag request for recnsideration of bid p'otest deci on.
     Esqueste for reconsideration must be In writing.

     Lactreiasetics, Icorportd(ILM1)   requests reconsideration
of our 'decsia tactroasa      A  orporced,  36 Comp. Cen.   ,
5186867,  October; 29, 1976, 762 CPD 371. IM called this Office
by telehnae  two ,r three working days after its receipt on
Wovember 3, 1976 ti our decision, sod received from the attorney
who had headled its original protest advice on how to obtain
reconsideration of the decision. At this time, I.M also advanced
argmnts   conderning the substance of its protest which it .ay
have, itended as a' oral request for reconsideration. Subse.-
quant,   by certified letter, postmarked November 15, 1976 and
received in this Office November 19, hl976, IMI formally requested
recoideration,  arauiug that our decision wan contrary to regu-
lation and prior deis,.ons of this Office.

     As explained below, the request for reconsideration is
dismAsed  as untimely filed.

     I=E had receivel a'copy of our Sid Protest Procedures,
4 C.F.R. 20St  eg.a. (1976), by letter ofJuly 12, 1976. following
the filing of its iwitial protest with tt'is Office. Theas pro-
cedures' provide in lection 20.9 that requests for reconsideration
of a decisin of this Comptroler Caneral nhall be filed not later
than 10 working days aftr the basis for reconsideration i.
known or should have been known, whichever is earlier. While the


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