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B-205501.2 1 (1983-01-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkvc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 'P7 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES A, WASHINGTON. 0. C. 20548 FILE: B-205501.2 DATE: January 17, 1983 MATTER OF: SAFE Export Corporation--Reconsideration DIGEST: Protester which withheld known relevant facts during development of initial protest which was dismissed as untimely cannot by way of request for reconsideration cure defects in initial protest or avoid consequences of its failure to affirmatively prove its case. SAFE Export Corporation requests that we reconsider our decision in SAFE Export Corporation, B-205501, September 28, 1982, 32-2 CPD 289 in which we dismissed its protest as untimely under our Bid Protest Procedures, 4 C.F.R. Part 21 (1982). For the reasons discussed below, this request is denied. This procurement has been the subject of three prior decisions by our Office. In 1980, SAFE protested the agency's refusal to permit a pre-proposal inspection of the alarm system control boxes which were to be serviced under the contract. SAFE also objected to certain pro- visions of the solicitation. This protest was denied in part and dismissed in part, a decision which we affirmed upon reconsideration. Security Assistance Forces & Equipment International, Inc., B-199-3-7, 7Tarct77, 1981, 81-1 CPD 200, affirmed on reconsideration, B-199377.2, June 2, 1981, 81-1 CPD 435. Upon receipt of our June 1981 decision, the Army proceeded with award of a contract to an offeror other than SAFE, even though SAFE's price was the lowest, because the Army had determined SAFE to be nonrespon- sible. Over 4 months later, in November 1981, SAFE protested to our Office, objecting to the determination that it was not responsible and asserting that, as the low offeror, it should have received award of the con- tract. Although SAFE acknowledged receiving our March and June 1981 decisions in which its objections to the

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