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B-209741 1 (1983-02-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkww0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTPOLLER GENERAL DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES .~~AS WASH NGTON D . C. 20548 FILE: B-209741 DATE: February 17, 1983 MATTER OF: O.K. Lumber Company, Inc. DIGEST: A complaint concerning the award of a contract under a Federal grant is not filed within a reasonable time and thus is untimely where the complaint is filed 2 months after its bases are evident. O.K. Lumber Company, Inc., complains concerning the award of a contract for lumber and supplies to Prairie Homes under solicitation No. IRHA No. 1 issued by the Interior Regional Housing Authority (IRHA), Fair- banks, Alaska. The contract is funded by a grant from the Department of the Interior. O.K. Lumber alleges that the IRHA improperly rejected its bid as nonrespon- sive. We dismiss the complaint as untimely. O.K. Lumber initially filed a post-award complaint with the IRHA on August 10, 1982. The IRHA denied that firm's complaint by letter dated August 13. A date stamp on that letter indicates that O.K. Lumber received it on August 16. O.K. Lumber then sent a detailed reply to the IRHA on August 20, challenging the IRHA's determination and requesting certain information. At the same time, O.K. Lumber wrote to the Department of the Interior and the Department of Housing and Urban Development in an effort to confirm the identity of the grant funds involved. On August 27, an official of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior, confirmed that the agency was the grantor but noted that the bid- ding procedures used by the IRHA were set forth in Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Standards, Part II, Section I, entitled Personal Property Procurement and Disposition Procedures. A date stamp on that reply indicates that O.K. Lumber received it on September 1. On November 1, O.K. Lumber again wrote to the IRHA, asserting that the agency had violated specific HUD regulations. O.K. Lumber then filed a complaint with this Office on November 4.

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