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B-195831.2 1 (1980-02-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadhyx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL ECIS Il . =OF THE UNITED STATEB WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 - TA FILE: B-195 MATTER OF: 831.2 DATE: February 5, 1980 Otis Elevator Company (O 0 DIGEST: Prior denial ofjLequest for reconsideration is affirmed wheredue to garbled message, GAO never received original telex request for reconsideration until after 10-day time limit had expired. Otis Elevator Company (Otis) has requested reconsideration of the dismissal on December 18, 1979, of its request for reconsideration as untimely in the matter of Otis Elevator Company, B-195831, November 8, 1979, 79-2 CPD 341. Our decision of December 18, 1979, held: Otis, in its request for recon'sideration disagreeing with our decision, notes that it received our November 8, 1979, decision on November 13, 1979. The request for reconsideration was not filed with our Office(1 until November 29, 1979, and is therefore untimely under our Bid Protest Procedures (4 C.F.R. part 20 (1979)). Section 20.9(b) of the Procedures requires requests for reconsideration be filed not later than 10 working days after the basis for recon- sideration is known or should have been known. Otis argues now that it has ascertained from Western Union.that its telegram requesting reconsidera- tion was sent to our Office on November 28, 1979, at 8:21 a.m., andtherefore, was timely received.

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