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Protest Cases

1. AttainX, Inc., B-420313 (January 31, 2022) (Published February 1, 2022)

• GAO denied a protest where a protester timely submitted a quotation that was not considered by the agency because of email delivery issues.
• In this procurement, the protester submitted its quotation by email to the contract specialist shortly before the deadline for quotation submission but received an error delivery message. The protester made several attempts to contact the contract specialist, each time receiving an error message.
• After the agency had awarded the task order to another vendor, a subsequently appointed contract specialist informed the protester that its proposal had been quarantined and was never viewed. The protester alleged that the agency improperly failed to consider its quotation.
• GAO denied the protest. Although the protester timely submitted its quotation to the designated email address, the email was quarantined in the agency's email server in a manner that made it inaccessible and thus the contracting personnel were unaware of the quotation.
• GAO analogized to an agency...

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