B-292758: Oct 16, 2003

Weeks Marine, Inc. protests the decision by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to accept the apparent low bid submitted by Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company under invitation for bids (IFB) No. DACW51-03-B-0013, issued for the Maintenance Dredging Shinnecock Inlet Interim Beach Nourishment Project. Weeks, the second low bidder, argues that the bid submitted by Great Lakes was late and should have bee...

B-292758: Oct 16, 2003

DIGEST Agency reasonably accepted late bid where the paramount cause of the late receipt was affirmative misdirection by the agency and where consideration of the late bid did not compromise the integrity of the competitive procurement system. Argues that the bid submitted by Great Lakes was late and should have been rejected because it did not qualify under any of the exceptions to the late biddi...