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B-197859 1 (1980-10-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadipu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: B-197859 DATE: October 8, 1980 U.S. Financial Services, Inc.-- equest for Reconsideratio Fact that protester met with contracting agency for clarification of reason for rejecting its proposal conveyed by agency less than 10 working days earlier, does not excuse firm's failure to file protest within 10 working days after receipt of initial advice as to reason for rejection. U.S. Financial Services, Inc. (USFS) requests that we reconsider our decision in U.S. Financial Services, Inc., B-197859, September 4, 1980, 80-2 CPD , in which we dismissed as untimely the firm's protest against an allegedly unwarranted restriction in a solicitation issued by the U.S. Marine Corps to upgrade certain disk controllers and drives. The protested restriction required benchmarking to establish compatibility with the Marine Corps' computer system. USFS, which felt that the requirement was unnecessary and thus imposed on the firm an undue financial burden, refused to conduct the benchmark. The record showed that USFS was told during a debriefing following the award of the contract to another offeror that USFS' proposal had been rejected because the firm had failed to perform the benchmark. The protest to our Office was dismissed as untimely because it was not filed within 10 working days thereafter as required by section 20.2(b)(2) of our Bid Protest Procedures, 4 C.F.R. part 20 (1980). While we noted that USFS met again with the Marine Corps before the 10 day period elapsed, we pointed out that the firm stated at a conference held by our Office that the purpose of that meeting, which USFS requested, was to seek clarification and not to protest to the 'I I I FILE: MATTER OF: DIGEST: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548

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