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B-201446.2 1 (1981-07-10)

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                       T.HE COMPTROLLER GENERAL
DECISION                OF THE UNITED STATES
                        WASHINGTON, 0. C. 20548
                 UN ITED


FILE:     B-201446.2          DATE: July 10, 1981

MATTER OF:      Public Law Education Institute--
                Reconsideration
DIGEST:


       Prior decision, dismissing protest
       against solicitation's late proposal
       provision as untimely, is affirmed
       where sentence in decision dis-
       puted by protester is shown to sup-
       port conclusion of untimeliness rather
       than reach merits of original protest,
       as protester contends.

       Public Law Education Institute (PLEI) requests
 reconsideration of our decision in the matter of
 Public Law Education Institute, B-201446, June 4,
 1981, 81-1 CPD  , wherein we dismissed as untimely
 PLEI's protest against the solicitation's late pro-
 posal provision because the protest had not been
 filed prior to the closing date for the receipt of
 initial proposals as required by our Bid Protest
 Procedures.

      The basis of PLEI's request involves the first
 sentence of the decision's third paragraph which
 read as follows:

           Late proposal provisions incorporated
      by reference into a solicitation are binding
      and offerors are charged with constructive
      knowledge of their contents. Rally Racks,
      Division of Rally Enterprises, Inc.--
      Reconsideration, B-200159.2, October 30,
      1980, 80-2 CPD 330. * * *

      Although PLEI does not dispute our conclusion
 that its protest was untimely, it argues that the
 sentence goes to the merits of its protest and,
 therefore, should not have been included in the
 decision. In other words, PLEI's original protest

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