B-274328: Nov 20, 1996

A firm protested a Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) contract award for a propane air system, contending that NAVFAC should have rejected the awardee's bid as late, since the bid opening official did not receive the bid until after he declared the closing time for hand-delivered bids. GAO held that NAVFAC properly considered the awardee's bid as timely, since the: (1) solicitation did...

B-274328: Nov 20, 1996

Where the bid opening officer receives a mailed bid from the agency mail clerk while he was walking en route from the building's foyer (where he declared that no more hand-carried bids would be accepted) to the bid opening room. Bid was properly considered as timely received by the agency where solicitation did not designate particular office for receipt of bids and bid was received in the mailroo...