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B-413557.3 1 (2017-03-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtfz0001 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: Peers Health File: B-413557.3 Date: March 16, 2017 Jon Seymour, MD, Peers Health, for the protester. David H. Turner, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's decision not to consider vendor's quotation is denied where the quotation was not timely received by the agency in a manner consistent with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION Peers Health, of Chicago, Illinois, protests the rejection, as late, of the quotation it submitted in response to request for quotations (RFQ) No. N00189-16-T-Z197, issued by the Department of the Navy, for occupational health disability and treatment guidelines. Peers contends that it submitted a timely quotation that the agency improperly rejected. We deny the protest. Quotations were due by 12:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on November 28, 2016. RFQ amend. 4, at 3. The solicitation included detailed instructions for the preparation and submission of proposals, as well as the evaluation criteria and basis for award. As relevant here, vendors were required to submit their quotations via email to the named point of contact at the email address provided in the solicitation, or by regular or overnight mail. Id. at 6. The solicitation included Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) provision 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors--Commercial Items, which provides, in relevant part, that: (f) Late submissions, modifications, revisions, and withdrawals of offers:

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