Rejection of a protester's revised e-mailed proposal as late was improper, according to the Court of Federal Claims, because the proposal reached the designated government office by the time specified in the solicitation. An amendment for the second phase of a solicitation for barracks design and construction requested proposal revisions by 12:00 p.m. on the due date. The protester e-mailed its revision to the contracting officer's e-mail address at 11:00 a.m. on the due date and the first of four government servers received the e-mail at 11:29 a.m., but an unexplained "mail storm" at the government's e-mail servers delayed actual delivery to the CO's e-mail inbox until 12:04 p.m. The protester challenged the government's determination its proposal was late and ineligible for award.
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