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B-416544 1 (2018-07-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduwe0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: CWIS, LLC File: B-416544 Date: July 12, 2018 Rene Ugarte, Esq., Whitcomb, Selinsky, McAuliffe PC, for the protester. Julie Cannatti, Esq., and Audrey Roh, Esq., Department of Housing and Urban Development, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency lacked a valid basis for sole-source contract award is dismissed as untimely where protest was submitted to GAO after closing time on Friday, and thus was not filed until Monday morning when GAO reopened for filings, which was more than 10 days after protester knew or should have known its basis of protest, notwithstanding counsel's apparent unsuccessful attempt to file protest 1 minute before closing time on Friday. DECISION CWIS, LLC, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, protests sole-source justification No. JOFOC1817, issued by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), to enter into a 12-month contract with P.K. Management Group, Inc. (PKMG), of Doral, Florida, for field service management (FSM) services at HUD-managed properties in Nevada, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska (known as areas 4S and 6S). CWIS argues that HUD lacked a valid legal and factual basis to award a contract to PKMG on a sole-source basis due to unusual and compelling urgency, rather than holding at least a limited competition; that even if there were a valid basis, the 12 month term exceeds the time necessary to conduct a competition for the requirement; and that the unusual and compelling urgency cited by HUD is negated by a lack of reasonable planning. We dismiss the protest as untimely. As background, starting on May 1, 2018, GAO fully implemented the electronic protest docketing system (EPDS). Under regulations effective that day, all new protests were required to be filed using the EPDS system (at https://epds.gao.gov/login), which

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