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B-410466 1 (2014-12-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqwt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: jGA Comptroller General ity * Integrity * Rellability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. L - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - i Decision Matter of: Federal Acquisition Services Team, LLC File: B-410466 Date: December 31, 2014 S. L. England, Esq., for the protester. Capt. Heather N. Corrothers, and Capt. Matthew W. Ramage-White, Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Frank Maguire, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's decision not to consider proposal is denied where protester attempted to submit its proposal prior to the closing time but the transmitting email was rejected as undeliverable by the agency's server for exceeding the applicable size limitation, and the proposal cannot be located on the agency's systems; to the extent the protester also contends that problems with the agency server's implementation of the solicitation's limitation on size of proposal submissions caused the problems here, the record does not support a conclusion that there was a systemic failure of the agency's systems for receiving proposals. DECISION Federal Acquisition Services Team, LLC (FAST), protests the U.S. Special Operations Command's (SOCOM) failure to consider its proposal under request for proposals (RFP) No. H92222-14-R-0019, for acquisition, procurement, and financial management support services. FAST asserts that its proposal, which was transmitted by email, was improperly rejected after the protester attempted to timely submit the proposal and it was bounced back by the agency's server for exceeding the applicable size limitation for emails. In the protester's view, the problem occurred as the result of a systemic failure of the agency's systems, and the agency therefore should consider the proposal. We deny the protest.

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