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B-416915 1 (2018-12-27)

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GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                          of the United States




Decision


Matter of: Utech Products, Inc. dba EndoSoft LLC

File:       B-416915

Date:       December 27, 2018

Abhishek Bajaj, for the protester.
Scott N. Flesch, Esq., and Major Wayne Branom, Department of the Army, 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 protester asserts that it provided the quotation by email, but the quotation
was not timely received by the agency in a manner consistent with the terms of the
solicitation.
DECISION

Utech Products, Inc. dba EndoSoft LLC (EndoSoft), of Schenectady, New York, protests
the Department of the Army's decision not to consider its quotation under request for
quotations (RFQ) No. W81 KOO-1 8-Q-0198, issued for an endoscopy documentation
system. EndoSoft asserts that it submitted its quotation prior to the closing date for
receipt of quotations.

We deny the protest.

The agency issued the RFQ pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 12,
seeking quotations for the award of a fixed-price contract for an endoscopy
documentation system. Agency Report (AR), Tab 3, RFQ, at 4. Award was to be made
to the vendor that submitted the lowest-priced, technically acceptable quotation by
10:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on September 19, 2018.1 Id. at 1, 66. As relevant

1 In another section of the RFQ, the agency stated the due date for quotations was
September 20. RFQ at 54. We do not need to address this discrepancy for purposes of
this decision.

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