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B-310928 1 (2008-01-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptavyn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Data Integrators, Inc. File: B-310928 Date: January 31, 2008 Robert Denton for the protester. Julie Kelley Cannatti, Esq., and Roy E. Potter, Esq., Government Printing Office, for the agency. Frank Maguire, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly issued purchase order to vendor whose quotation was received after the deadline for submission of quotations is sustained, where solicitation incorporated by reference late quotation provision expressly providing that quotations must be received by deadline to be considered. DECISION Data Integrators, Inc. protests issuance of a purchase order to The Data Center, Inc. (TDC) under Government Printing Office (GPO) Quotation Request for Jackets 740-264 and 740-268, for printing of 2008 General Enrollment Package (English) and 2008 General Enrollment Package (Spanish), respectively, for the Department of Health and Human Services. We sustain the protest. The solicitation, dated November 30, 2007, included the instruction Quotations are Due By: (Eastern Time) 10:00 AM on 12/04/07. Agency Report (AR), Tab B. Data Integrators submitted a quotation prior to 10 a.m. on December 4. Protest at 1; AR at 2.' On December 4, at 10:41 a.m., GPO prepared an abstract of quotations that indicated that two quotations had been received, and that Data Integrators' was the 1 GPO advises that this procurement was conducted under GPO's small purchase procedures. AR at 2-3; see GPO, Printing Procurement Regulation, Apr. 10, 2001, Ch. VII, § 4. Applicability of those procedures, however, does not affect our decision.

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