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B-291082 1 (2002-10-11)

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          G    A     0                                                 Comptroller General
Accountability * Integrity* Reliability                                of the United States
United States General Accounting Office
Washington, DC 20548



          Decision


          Matter of: PMTech, Inc.

          File:        B-291082

          Date:        October 11, 2002

          Eric J. Marcotte, Esq., and Scott Schipma, Esq., Winston & Strawn, for the protester.
          Gena E. Cadieux, Esq., and Paul A. Gervas, Esq., Department of Energy, for the
          agency.
          Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General
          Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
          DIGEST

          Protest challenging the agency's rejection of the protester's proposal as late under a
          negotiated procurement that required the electronic submission of proposals is
          denied, where the protester waited until 13 minutes before the time set for receipt of
          proposals to transmit its proposal electronically to the agency's web-site and only
          the cover sheet of the electronic proposal was received by the agency by the time
          specified.
          DECISION

          PMTech, Inc. protests the rejection of its proposal, as late, under request for
          proposals (RFP) No. DE-RPO1-02SO20138, issued by the Department of Energy
          (DOE) for technical support services for the agency's Office of Classified and
          Controlled Information Review.

          We deny the protest.

          DOE's Office of Classified and Controlled Information Review is responsible for the
          review of documents for identification of classified information and for determining
          whether classified documents can be sanitized or declassified for public release.
          Contracting Officer's Statement/Memorandum of Law at 1. The RFP, issued
          electronically on June 10, 2002 on the agency's Industry Interactive Procurement
          System (IIPS) web-site (see <http://doe-iips.hq.doe.gov>), sought proposals for
          technical services supporting this office. Offerors were informed that the acquisition
          was completely set aside for small business and that DOE intended to award,

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