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B-411848 1 (2015-11-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrpj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General VA N Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Eastern Forestry File: B-411848 Date: November 9, 2015 Donna Harter, for the protester. Evan C. Williams, Esq., and Scott N. Flesch, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Frank Maguire, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency did not provide sufficient time for submission of bids is sustained where a substantive amendment to the solicitation was posted at 7:00 p.m., the evening before the scheduled bid opening, and was first seen by the protester at 9:15 a.m. on the day of bid opening, leaving the protester insufficient time to hand-deliver a hard copy and compact disc by the scheduled 10:00 a.m. bid opening. DECISION Eastern Forestry, of Spring Grove, Virginia, protests the terms of invitation for bids (IFB) No. W91 QF5-15-B-0007 (IFB-0007), issued by the Department of the Army for landscaping services at Fort Lee, Virginia. Eastern Forestry asserts that the IFB, as amended, did not provide sufficient time to prepare and submit a bid. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The IFB, issued and posted on the Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) website on July 16, 2015, provided for issuance of a requirements contract, for a base year with four option years, for tree maintenance and landscaping (including pruning, cutting, and chipping stumps) at Fort Lee. The IFB as issued set bid opening for July 30, 2015, at 10:00 a.m., Eastern Standard Time (EST). With regard to bid submission, the IFB provided:

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