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) _COMPTROLLEAR GENERAL OF hE UNITED STATfl
Avks: WASHINGTON. D.C. MfU
OCT 26 1973
)tnpcnerr Z rporated ot Prom ne
10 Abbott Fn.* Place
Providonev Rhode Island W903
Attenton: Wr. Sheldon's BoUay
President
Oentlemen:
R.ference is ode to your letter datAtd Ju 5, 19.73s rteta
lag the rojection o yout propoal as late, ider request for pro-
9008(UP) no. flAO40o73RmO934, Issued by the kNa]. Dhgiomi
Prorument Oifice Phtlad.lphia, Nennsyvtnia.
The subject RF, issued Iky 9, 1973, solicited offens for
furnishing labor aMl stetul to ortforn mass attendant services
b in rood Service uiding 12 and 2 it the Mya Training Center,
hinbrigo, ttryand during the period July 1$ 1973 throuoh Jun. 30,
197k, 4 A dfication was imsied on June 5 , 73 s rretins a
reference to the emplAr's FICA4 contribution to reflect the cunent
rate1 and matin cortain revision in the eatinate1 number of aula
to be crved under the propsed contract. Tht amendxent requeste4
acknowledguent by return vire. s on responses ters received by the
date for receipt of proposals, :O0 pa. on June 8, 1973 1M&npowxr
proposal was received on June fl, 1373, detcrreed to be a late
proposal, and not considered for an tvard. The contract was uvarded
to lilitary DBseManseMaent1 IncorporNted, on June 27, 1973.
You contend that the closing date for receipt of proposals
should have been postponed n ines you did not receive the arendment
until 4 t55 p.m. on June 6, 1973. You ctae that the telegraphic
anendment an telephoned to you by Western Unkn did not contain the
authorization to ackowledge by telera, t.hat yoa did not receive a
copy of the nesaget and that your otfer coatining the ackwwledgmnt
%ts ailed by 2130 p.m. on June 7, 1973.
Standard FrM 33Ap incorporated by rnferee in the RFPM, and
AMf 3-506(o) apply the late bid standsrds cet ?orth in ASPE .2:303
to late propoa. ASPR 2-303.3 recs, in part, as follows:
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