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B-201389.2 1 (1981-05-11)

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              ; r        THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL
 OECISION. OF THE UNITED STATES
                         WASHINGTON, 0. C. 20548

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  FILE: B-201389.2             DATE:    may 11, 1981

  MATTER OF: Fowler's Refrigeration and Appliance,
              Inc.--Reconsideration

 DIGEST:

 1.  Protest timely filed with contracting
     agency and subsequently filed with this
     Office within 10 days of formal noti-
     fication of or actual or constructive
     knowledge of initial adverse agency
     action will be considered timely.

2.   Protest that revised solicitation
     should be canceled because percen-
     tage by which low bid price ex-
     ceeded Government estimate is
     greater than percentage by which
     low bid price exceeded Govern-
     ment estimate in canceled initial
     solicitation is denied because
     basis for cancellation was re-
     vised scope of work and cost esti-
     mate, not price unreasonableness,
     and low price under resolicitation
     has been determined reasonable.

     Fowler's Refrigeration and Appliance, Inc.
(Fowler), requests reconsideration of one issue in
our decision in Fowler's Refrigeration and Appliance,
Inc., B-201389, March 25, 1981, 81-1 CPD 223. Fowler
protested the cancellation of invitation for bids (IFB)
No. N62470-80-B-2925 and the proposed award by the Navy
under a revised IFB. Fowler contends that we incor-
rectly determined untimely its protest of the Navy's
failure to cancel the second solicitation because the
low bid was excessive compared to the Government esti-
ate. We found the issue untimely because the pro-
test was not filed with GAO within a reasonable time
after the opening of bids.

     We based our decision in this regard on the fact
that bids were opened on October 7, 1980, under the
revised IFB, but that this protest was not filed until





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