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December 22, 2017 By AMK

GAO: Email delivery receipt didn’t confirm proposal submission

When an offeror submits a proposal by email, does a delivery receipt mean that the agency necessarily received the proposal in its inbox?

At least under the facts of one recent GAO bid protest, the answer was “no.”

In that case, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) held that an email delivery receipt wasn’t sufficient to demonstrate that the agency received the electronic proposal.

In ManTech Advanced Systems International, Inc., B-414985, (Oct. 20, 2017), the GAO examined a proposal submitted by ManTech to provide cyber security services to the Air Force. ManTech submitted its proposal under a task order solicitation issued under the Air Force’s Cyber Security and Information Systems Technical Tasks IDIQ.

Keep reading this article at: http://smallgovcon.com/gaobidprotests/gao-email-delivery-receipt-didnt-confirm-proposal-submission/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: bid protest, GAO, protest, responsiveness

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