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B-190216 1 (1978-01-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadfnm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION '.i .4 OF THE UNITEO STATEB WASHINGTON. D.C. 2054B FILE: B-190216 DATE: January 5, 1978 MATTER OF: General Automatic Corporation DIGEST: 1. Issues apparent on face of IFB which were not protested prior to bid opening are untimely raised and are dismissed. Furthermore, issues are not of widespread interest to procurement community and not for consideration under mignificant issue exception to timeliness rules. 2. Contention that agency made award knowing that after award change orders would be required to correct specification deficiencies is without merit because agency has determined that no modification will be required so that matter now concerns only administration of contract. General Automatic Corporation protests award under IFB DAAKO1-77-1I-5769, issued by the Department of the Army, Troop Support and Aviation Materiel Readiness Command, for capacitors to conform to Army Mobility Cjrmand drawing 13212E3762, Rev. H. General Automatic complain that the drawing containee a v-amber of defects which make it impossibl en detezrminc what is required or what the Government will be receive .g under -he contract. The Army argues, and we agree, that all of the alleged deficiencier were wr should have bec-n apparent to the protester prior to the time of bid opening, and that its protest filed after the opening is untimely within the meaning of section 20.2(b)(l) of our lid Protest Procedures. 4 C.F.R. § 20.2(b)(1) (1977). That section provide. that protests based on any type of impro- priety in the solicitation which is or should have been apparent prior to bid opening must be filed before bid opening. - 1 -

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