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B-298408 1 (2006-07-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptasqj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: WareOnEarth Communications, Inc. File: B-298408 Date: July 11, 2006 David W. Burgett, Esq., Allison D. Pugsley, Esq., and Brian C.J. Berry, Esq., Hogan & Hartson LLP, for the protester. JoAnn W. Melesky, Esq., Defense Information Systems Agency, for the agency. Edward Goldstein, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's issuance of amendments changing basis of price evaluation is dismissed as untimely where protest was not filed before the time set for receipt of revised proposals. DECISION WareOnEarth Communications, Inc. (WCI) protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. HC 1019-04-R-0008, issued by the Defense Information Systems Agency, Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization -- Pacific (DITCO). Specifically, WCI challenges the agency's issuance of amendments altering the basis for the agency's price evaluation. We dismiss the protest as untimely. The agency issued the RFP on June 9, 2005, for various telecommunications services for military installations throughout the state of Hawaii, referred to as the Joint Hawaii Information Transfer System (JHITS), which encompasses switched voice and data services, Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) services, dedicated transmission (point-to-point and multi-point) as well as optional services for the maintenance of Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) and intra-base Outside Plant (OSP) cable including fiber optic cable. Agency's Comments on Timeliness at 2. The RFP contemplates the award of a contract with a period of performance up to 10 years in length (6-year base period with a 3-year option period, plus an additional 1-year option period).

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