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B-419948 Sep 21, 2021 1 (2021-09-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaompm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decisionbenrec res been approved for public release. Matter of: Starblast Corporation File: B-419948 Date: September 21, 2021 Jon D. Levin, Esq., and W. Brad English, Esq., Maynard Cooper & Gale PC, for the protester. James H. Price, Esq., and Michael R. Franz, Esq., Lacy, Price & Wagner, P.C., for Relyant Global, LLC, the intervenor. Laura Weeden, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly rejected protester's proposal is denied where the protester did not submit a compliant proposal prior to the time for receipt of initial proposals, and the protester fails to establish that the late proposal exceptions in Federal Acquisition Regulation provision 52.215-1(c)(3) are applicable. DECISION Starblast Corporation, of Solana Beach, California, protests the rejection of its proposal by the Department of the Navy, Naval Supply Systems Command, under request for proposals (RFP) No. N6264921 R0038, for worldwide expeditionary support and services in a variety of regions across the world. The protester contends that the agency should have considered Starblast's proposal under a Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) exception to the rule that a late proposal will not be considered. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, issued on March 2, 2021, contemplated the award of fixed-price Worldwide Expeditionary Multiple Award Contracts--known as WEXMACs--for broad categories of services and supplies in support of humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, contingency operations, and exercises. Protest, attach. A, RFP at 1, 69; Protest, attach. B, Performance Work Statement (PWS) at 1. The worldwide solicitation covered

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