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B-274037 1 (1996-11-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaekn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Comspace Corporation File: B-274037 Date: November 14, 1996 Irving Becker for the protester. Jerry Aldridge, and Christine B. Rothe, Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Sylvia Schatz, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Electronic quotation cannot be considered for award where the only evidence of receipt is agency record showing receipt by the agency after award. DECISION Comspace Corporation protests the rejection of its quotation as late, and the award of a purchase order to Star Dynamic Corporation, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. F41612-96-T-A998, issued by the Department of the Air Force for 32 field telephone sets. We deny the protest. The RFQ was issued by Sheppard Air Force Base (AFB) on July 11, 1996, using simplified acquisition procedures (initiated by the agency for purchases up to $100,000), under which RFQs are transmitted directly to an electronic bulletin board maintained by the agency. Quotations, due no later than July 23, were to be submitted by interested firms either in paper form or electronically through a government certified value added network (VAN), which would transmit the quotation to the agency network entry point (NEP) in Columbus, Ohio. The NEP is the first electronic entry point at which the government accepts a vendor's quotation. On July 18, Comspace submitted its quotation to Comtech Management Systems (CMS), a trading partner (i.e., a firm that serves as a middleman for purposes of submitting electronic quotations to a VAN, see Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) § 4.501). CMS transmitted the quotation to Harbinger Corporation, a VAN. However, as of July 23, the agency had no record of a quotation from Comspace; it made award on that same date to Star Dynamic, which submitted the lower of the two quotations received. Subsequently, after being informed that Comspace had 904118

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