United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao_comptroller_general legislative 2016-06-23 U.S. Government Publishing Office 1996-10-09 monographic deposited born digital 5 p. GA 1.13:B-271288.2 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-271288-2 P0b002ee18fd48268 f:2712882 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-271288-2 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-271288-2 B-271288.2 Comptroller General Decision 1. Protest challenging agency's decision to "bundle" agency's requirements into one procurement rather than issuing multiple solicitations is dismissed as untimely where agency's "bundling" approach was apparent from the face of the request for proposals, but protest was not filed prior to the closing time for receipt of proposals.<p/>2. Agency properly excluded protester's technically unacceptable proposal from the competitive range since it had no chance of being selected for award despite its low price.<p/>3. Protest challenging technical evaluation of proposal is dismissed as untimely where not filed within 14 days after protester was informed of deficiencies in its proposal.<p/>4. Where agency holds discussions with competitive range offerors and requests best and final offers (BAFO), offerors properly may revise their proposals in their BAFOs.<p/>5. Protester is not an interested party to challenge acceptability of awardee's proposal where it would not be in line for award even if the proposal were rejected. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-271288-2/html/GAOREPORTS-B-271288-2.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-271288-2/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-271288-2.pdf GAO/B-271288.2 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-271288-2 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-271288.2; Custom Data Services;