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B-400106 1 (2008-05-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptawba0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G a O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Masai Technologies Corporation File: B-400106 Date: May 27, 2008 Masai Troutman for the protester. Capt. Megan E. Stephens, Department of the Army, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest filed within 10 days of contracting officer's letter resolving a timely agency-level protest, but after the closing time for submission of quotations, is untimely where the issue protested at GAO is different from the issues raised in the timely agency-level protest. 2. Protester's e-mail to officials in agency small business office, which suggested that a procurement could be set aside for small businesses, was not an agency-level protest, and a subsequent protest at GAO raising that issue, filed after the closing time for submission of quotations, is therefore untimely. DECISION Masai Technologies Corporation, doing business as MTC Integration (MTC), a small business, protests the failure to set aside for Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) small businesses a procurement by the Department of the Army, U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 269701, issued to Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) vendors, for information technology support services. We dismiss the protest as untimely because it challenges an alleged impropriety in the RFQ that should have been protested before the initial closing time for submission of quotations. The Army issued the RFQ on March 21, 2008 by posting it on the General Services Administration e-Buy website. The RFQ sought quotations from vendors holding FSS contracts to provide local area network administration and web support for the Defense Medical Standardization Board at Fort Detrick, Maryland. On April 11, the

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