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B-190159 1 (1978-02-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadfqz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE NCMPTNOLLEN ENERAL CECIKION . OP THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, 0. C. 2054U -190159DATE: February 1, 1978 .2We* 09% I 4'; Si I. I fl -a-, H -I ..~'j H t p.*.t. ~~iLi1~1 a - MATTER OF: Southern Oregor. Aggregate, Inc. DIGEST: Prior decision is affirmed upon recon- sideration *iv`e it has not been shown that prior decision was based on errors of fact or law. Southern Oregon Aggegate, Inc. (S.O.A), has requested reconsideration of our decision in Southern Orqon Aqqrugate. Inc., B-190159, December 16# 1977, 77-2 CPD 477 nThich we denied its protest of the rejection of its bid as late. 3.O.A.'s bid-uas hand-delivered by a commercial delivery service to a building in the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Denver Service Center, Denver, Colorado, installation that was not the address specified in the IFB. After the bid was delivered to the wrong address,: it was apparently lost by Government employees and not found until after bid opening. BOA argued thatIt was stan- dard practice to deliver to the,wrong address because delivery services often had difficulty making delivery at the correct address. S.O.A. contended that the common carrier was misled by the Government into misdelivering the packagt, and that other Government mishandling led to rejection of its bid. We held that since the common carrier delivered the bid to the wrong address orn its own initiative, any subsequent Government mishandling was not the paramount reason for the late receipt of the bid, and therefore the bid was properly rejected. Section 20.9 of our Bid Protest Procedures, which proviles for reconsideration of a decision, requires that requests for reconsideration contain a detailed statement of the factual and leg'.l grounds upon which -l1*. T-.*- 4 - V 11 I9. ..bpt p. j .'-.,-', * -p. 4 FILE: I

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