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B-271841 1 (1996-07-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaegm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Great Plains Asbestos Control, Inc. File: B-271841 Date: July 15, 1996 Danne W. Webb, Esq., Miller Law Firm, for the protester. Marian E. Sullivan, Esq., and Christopher L. Smith, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Susan K. McAuliffe, Esq., and John Van Schaik, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where commercial carrier, on its own initiative, left bid package at military installation's freight terminal during an installation security exercise--where security exercise did not impede delivery to proper location specified in solicitation--and carrier made no attempt to deliver the parcel to the proper location, the bid, when received late at the required location, was properly rejected since improper government action was not the sole or paramount cause of the bid's late arrival. DECISION Great Plains Asbestos Control, Inc. protests the rejection of its bid as late under invitation for bids (IFB) No. F48608-96-B-0001, issued by the Department of the Air Force for asbestos abatement services. We deny the protest. The IFB, which established bid opening for Friday, March 15, 1996, at 2 p.m., instructed bidders to address their bids to 90th Contracting Squadron, 7505 Marne Loop at F.E. Warren Air Force Base (AFB), Wyoming. Great Plains's bid was not included among those presented and opened at the scheduled bid opening; the protester's bid was not received at the bid opening location until Monday, March 18 at 2:15 p.m. Great Plains states that its bid was timely received by the Air Force and should be considered for award since it was delivered by United Parcel Service (UPS) to Warren AFB's Transportation Building, the installation's freight terminal, at 10:13 a.m. on March 15. The protester explains that the UPS driver delivered the bid package to the Transportation Building, rather than the specified address of the 90th Contracting Squadron, because the base was under a security exercise 331711

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