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B-274624 1 (1996-12-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaemm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: John Blood File: B-274624 Date: December 19, 1996 John Blood for the protester. Allen W. Smith, Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Linda C. Glass, Esq., and Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Although request for quotations issued under simplified acquisition procedures did not contain a late quotations provision, agency decision to reject protester's late quotation was unobjectionable where award at a reasonable price had been made prior to receipt of the late quotation. DECISION John Blood protests the issuance of a purchase order to Arrowhead Starr Company under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 11R2-96-24, issued by the Department of Agriculture, Forest Service for the thinning of 198 acres in Medicine Bow/Routt National Forest, Yampa Ranger District. The protester contends that the agency improperly issued the purchase order prior to receipt of its quote. We deny the protest. The RFQ was issued by the Forest Service on August 21, 1996, as a small business set-aside under simplified acquisition procedures and was sent to 10 companies, including the protester. The RFQ called for quotations to be furnished by the close of business on September 3. The contracting officer received two quotes by that time. On September 3, the protester called the agency and told an agency purchasing agent that he had mailed a quotation and that he had also given an oral price quotation to an employee of the Yampa Ranger District. Later that same day, the contracting officer placed a phone call to the protester to obtain a quote, but the phone was not answered. On the morning of September 4, the contracting officer still had not received a quote from the protester, and attempted to telephone the protester several times, each time receiving no answer. He also checked all of the unprocessed mail as well as the facsimile machine and found no quotation or 2141219

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