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B-413216 1 (2016-08-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsld0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General V f Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: GGear File: B-413216 Date: August 15, 2016 Anthony Arias, for the protester. Michael D. McPeak, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Charmaine A. Stevenson, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's rejection of the protester's proposal as late is denied where the late receipt of the proposal was not caused by the agency and the paramount cause for late delivery was the protester's failure to follow the delivery instructions in the solicitation. DECISION GGear, a small business of Jamaica, New York, protests the rejection of its proposal by the Department of Defense, Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), under request for proposals (RFP) No. SPE1 C1-16-R-0033 for moisture wicking T-shirts. GGear argues that its proposal was improperly rejected as late for reasons primarily due to the agency's fault. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND DLA issued the solicitation on April 21, 2016, seeking various sizes and colors of moisture wicking T-shirts. RFP at 9. The solicitation set forth instructions for offerors to follow when submitting proposals. Specifically, proposals could be mailed, or hand carried to DLA Troop Support as follows: > Address and Deliver hand carried offers, including delivery by commercial carrier, to: DLA Troop Support Business Opportunities Office

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