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A G A O Comptroller General
. Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States
United States Government Accountability Office
Washington, DC 20548
Decision
Matter of: The Castle Group
File: B-297853
Date: March 21, 2006
Jason S. Schloss for the protester.
Diane A. Perone, Esq., Agency for International Development, for the agency.
Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Agency properly declined to accept protester's late proposal where there is no
evidence that improper government action was cause of U.S. Postal Service's failure
to make timely delivery.
DECISION
The Castle Group, agent for Medex Tianjin Latex Group, protests the Agency for
International Development's (USAID) rejection of its proposal as late under request
for proposals (RFP) No. M-OAA-GH-06-063, for latex condoms.
We deny the protest.
The RFP informed offerors to submit their proposals by the closing date and time--
January 3, 2006, at 11:00 a.m.--to the following mailing address: [Ms. Z], Contracting
Officer, Office Of Acquisition And Assistance, M/OAA/GH, Rm. 7.09-086, 1300
Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20523-7900. RFP § L.9. The first page
of the RFP (Standard Form 33), as well as the RFP's cover letter indicated that the
first line of the address was to be U.S. Agency for International Development. The
RFP also incorporated Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) § 52.215-1, which
provides that late proposals generally will not be considered for award if they do not
reach the designated government office by the time specified in the solicitation.
Castle used the U.S. Postal Service's (USPS) on-line Click-N-Ship® program to
prepare an Express Mail shipping label, and addressed its proposal as follows:
[Ms. Z], OFC OF ACQUISITION & ASSISTANCE, M/OAA/GH, RM 7 09-086,1300
PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW, WASHINGTON DC 20004-3002. Castle knew that it had](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaocrptasny0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)