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B-292239 1 (2003-07-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacyiv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0Comptroller General A- Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Integrated Business Solutions, Inc. File: B-292239 Date: July 9, 2003 Keith Calhoun-Senghor, Esq., for the protester. David T. Truong, Esq., National Science Foundation, for the agency. Matthew T. Crosby and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency properly rejected protester's electronically submitted final proposal revision for facilities management services where solicitation did not authorize the electronic submission of proposals. 2. Agency properly rejected protester's initial proposal as unacceptable where protester failed to acknowledge solicitation amendment changing period of performance. DECISION Integrated Business Solutions, Inc. (IBS) protests the rejection of its proposal under solicitation No. CPO-0200006, issued by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for facilities management services. IBS contends that the agency improperly rejected its final proposal revision (FPR) as late. Additionally, IBS contends that, after rejecting the FPR, the agency improperly failed to consider IBS's initial proposal. We deny the protest. IBS's initial proposal was one of four that NSF included in the competitive range. NSF conducted discussions with the four competitive range offerors; discussions with IBS took place on March 4, 2003. On March 10, the agency issued a letter informing the four offerors that their final technical and cost/price submissions were due at 10:30 a.m. on March 13. Attached to the letter was a list of questions that each offeror might consider during preparation of its FPR. Also attached was an amendment that delayed the period of performance by 4-1/2 months. The letter instructed offerors that they could submit an FPR or confirm their initial proposal.

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