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B-280005 1 (1998-08-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahug0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: RGI, hie. File: B-280005 Date: August 17, 1998 Edward Tolchin, Esq., Fettmann, Tolchin & Majors, P.C., for the protester. Maj. Robert L. Duecaster, Department of the Army, for the agency. Marie Penny Ahearn, Esq., David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where proposal sent via United States Postal Service Express Mail Second Day Service is received by contracting agency after time for receipt of proposals stated in solicitation, proposal is late and must be rejected; receipt of proposal at local post office before closing time does not constitute timely receipt at activity designated for receipt of offers. DECISION RGI, Inc. protests the rejection of its proposal as late under request for proposals (RFP) No. DAKF40-97-R-0032, issued by the Department of the Army for the operation of learning, language, and testing centers at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. We deny the protest. The RFP, as amended, established as the closing time for receipt of proposals 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on April 16, 1998, Amendment No. 0006 at 2, and instructed offerors to Address Offer To ... Directorate of Contracting; Bldg 1-1333, Room 107; Corner of Macomb & Armistead Sts; Fort Bragg NC 28307. RFP Cover Sheet, Item 8. In addition, the solicitation included the standard instructions to offerors clause, Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) § 52.215-1, providing that an offer received at the office designated in the solicitation after the exact time specified for receipt shall not be considered unless it was received before contract award and, as relevant here, either: (1) was sent by U.S. Postal Service Express Mail Next Day Service-Post Office to Addressee, not later than 5:00 p.m. at the place of mailing two working days prior to the date specified for receipt of proposals, FAR § 52.215-1(c)(3)(i)(C); or (2) there is acceptable evidence to establish that it

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