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B-400065 1 (2008-07-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaway0001 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: Aquaterra Contracting, Inc. File: B-400065 Date: July 14, 2008 Timothy A. Sullivan, Esq., Payne Hackenbracht & Sullivan, for the protester. Parag J. Rawal, Esq., and Deena G. Braunstein, Esq., Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, for the agency. Susan K. McAuliffe, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of agency's rejection of bid as late is denied where bidder's failure to address and label its bid package as instructed by the solicitation was paramount cause of its late arrival to bid opening location. DECISION Aquaterra Contracting, Inc. protests the rejection of its bid as late under invitation for bids (IFB) No. W912P8-08-B-0019, issued by the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, for dolphin replacement work at Calcasieu Lock, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. We deny the protest. The IFB, as amended, required that sealed bids be submitted by 2 p.m. on February 11, 2008; bids were to be addressed to the attention of a particular contracting specialist (the identified point of contact for the procurement) at a post office box address in New Orleans, Louisiana. IFB, Standard Form 1442.' The IFB also advised that bids were to be submitted in sealed envelopes labeled with the time and date for receipt, the solicitation number, and the name and address of the 'Amendment No. 2 to the solicitation notified all prospective bidders that the contracting specialist initially identified in the IFB would no longer be the point of contact for the procurement and identified another contracting specialist as the new point of contact.

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