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B-293231 1 (2004-02-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptapko0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Allied Materials & Equipment Company, Inc. File: B-293231 Date: February 5, 2004 Michael I. Goulding, Esq., Centre Law Group, for the protester. Robert L. Mercadante, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Peter D. Verchinski, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of agency's failure to post solicitation on FedBizOpps Internet website, as required by regulation, is denied, where protester did not avail itself of every reasonable opportunity to obtain the solicitation; although presolicitation notice indicated an anticipated August 20, 2003 closing time, as that time approached and passed, protester did not contact agency to determine status of solicitation, and finally inquired as to status approximately 7 weeks after closing time. DECISION Allied Materials & Equipment Company, Inc. protests the award of a contract by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), Defense Supply Center to ILC Dover, Inc., under request for proposals (RFP) No. SP0560-03-R-0186, for chemical-biological filter elements. Allied alleges that the agency's failure to post the solicitation to FedBizOpps, the government-wide point of entry (GPE), as required by the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), improperly denied it the opportunity to compete for the contract. We deny the protest. On July 18, 2003, DLA published a synopsis of the proposed RFP on the FedBizOpps website. The notice informed potential offerors that the proposed closing date was August 20, and included contact information for various DLA contracting personnel. Under FAR § 5.102(a)(1), solicitations synopsized on the GPE (i.e., FedBizOpps) must subsequently be posted there as well. Allied states that, following publication of the notice, it began actively monitoring the FedBizOpps and DLA Procurement Gateway websites for the RFP. According to Allied, the RFP was never posted, and

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