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B-194959 1 (1979-06-25)

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                      . THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL
DECISION                OF  THE   UNITED STATES
              V      WASHINGTON, D. C, 20548
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DATE:   June 25, 1979 )


B-194959


MATTER  OF:


Syntex Laboratories Inc.


  DIGEST:

1.  Protest to GAO alleging restrictive solicitation
    after denial by contracting agency will not be
    considered, since protest was filed with contract-
    ing agency untimely.

2.  Even if protest to contracting agency was timely,
    protest to GAO filed more than month after initial
    adverse agency action was untimely.


    Syntex  Laboratories Inc. (Syntex) protests the   00o '1
award of a contract by the United States Department
of Agriculture (USDA) under Announcement PV-LF-1,
Amendment 9, Invitation 11. The procurement is for
120,000 cases of concentrated liquid infant formula.

     The date set for bid opening was February 20,
1979.  On March 6,Syntex filed a protest with USDA
complaining that the solicitation was deficient in
that it was restrictive. By letter da6t&edMarh'~28,
th-e-C-0- t  n  Tofflcer denied Syntex's protest.
Syntex subsequently protested to our Office by letter
dated April 30.

     Section 20.2(b)(1) of our Bid Protest Procedures
(Procedures), 4 C.F.R. part 20 (1978), provides:

          Protests based upon alleged
     improprieties in any type of solicita-
     tion which are apparent prior to bid
     opening or the closing date for receipt
     of initial proposals shall be filed
     prior to bid opening or the closing
     date for receipt of initial proposals.


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