Case Study D Planes Request for Proposals Instructions: Read the scenario below and answer the questions that follow. The Air Force issued an RFP for planes. The RFP instructed offerors to submit proposals to "1755 Eleventh Street, Building 570, Wright-Patterson AFB [Air Force Base], OH," by 2:00 p.m. on July 9, 2010. Offeror C's messenger arrived at one of the base entrance gates at 1:15 p.m. and told the guard he was there to deliver his proposal. The guard denied the messenger's entry and told him that he needed to have someone from the office to which he was delivering his proposal call the gate to authorize his admission. The guard instructed the messenger to wait in a nearby parking area. The messenger understood that the guard would call the contracts office to facilitate his admission. While he waited, the messenger called other Offeror C representatives to tell them what was going on. Following various conversations between himself, gate personnel, and other Offeror C representatives, he was permitted to enter the base just after 1:40 p.m. The gate guard gave him directions to 1755 Eleventh Street, building 570. The messenger followed those directions, but upon turning onto Eleventh Street as instructed, he noticed the address provided did not exist, as the road dead ended into a building. The messenger then parked his car at a particular intersection. At 1:53 p.m., he received a call on his cell phone from the contracting officer's representative (COR) asking where he was. The messenger stated that he told the COR where he was and the COR told him to wait there and that he (the COR) would come to the messenger's location and take the proposal to Building 570 before the deadline. A few minutes later, the COR pulled alongside messenger's car and, when he (the messenger) made mention of the fact that the address was looking for was not there, the COR said "[t]hey just built that building at the end of the road, unless you knew to go around the new building you never would have found #570 because it sits behind the new building and is not visible." The messenger told the COR that he had Offeror C's proposal but, rather than taking the proposal, the COR instructed the messenger to follow him to a parking lot near building 570, which the messenger did. When the messenger got out of the car at the parking lot, he handed Offeror C's proposal to the COR, who placed it on the messenger's car while he (the COR) made two telephone calls. The COR then advised the messenger that he (the COR) wanted to sign a receipt, instructed the messenger to accompany the COR inside the lobby of building 570, where the COR obtained a blank receipt, completed it to show that the proposal had been received at 2:05 p.m., and gave a copy to the messenger. Questions (Provide FAR, DFAR or other governing regulations or policies that support your answer) 1. Assuming the COR received the proposal at 2:05 p.m., was Offeror C's proposal late? 2. If Offeror C's proposal was late, could it still be considered? (Assume it was not the only proposal received) 3. Would your answers to #1 or #2 be different if sealed bidding procedures were used?