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B-265869.2 1 (1996-03-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptadta0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: QuanTech, Inc. File: B-265869.2 Date: March 20, 1996 Alan M. Grayson, Esq., Victor Kubli, Esq., and Paula K. Goldman, Esq., for the protester. Jerry A. Walz, Esq., Department of Commerce, for the agency. Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Procuring agency reasonably reopened the competition to all offerors, including an offeror who submitted a late proposal in response to the original closing date for receipt of proposals, in response to a General Accounting Office decision sustaining a protest and recommending an extension of the original proposal closing date. DECISION QuanTech, Inc. protests the determination by the Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), to reopen the competition under request for proposals (RFP) No. 50-DGNF-5-00079, issued to obtain a contractor to conduct the agency's 1996 National Marine Fishery Statistics Survey. We deny the protest. As issued, the RFP provided that certain necessary proposal preparation material would be available upon request. Although Marine Research Specialists (MRS) timely requested this information, NOAA did not furnish it to MRS until shortly before the scheduled closing date; NOAA, however, did timely furnish the information to other potential offerors. Also, NOAA denied MRS's request for an extension of the closing date. In Marine Research Specialists, B-265869, Jan. 2, 1996, 96-1 CPD 1, we sustained MRS's protest of the agency's failure to timely provide the information, because we found that MRS and the other offerors were treated unequally and that the agency had failed to obtain full and open competition by refusing to extend the RFP's closing date. We recommended that NOAA establish a new closing date and allow MRS to submit a proposal. 832320

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