Division of Administrative Hearings, Florida
Filed: Sep. 30, 2015
The ultimate issue presented in this part of the bifurcated proceeding is whether the Petition should be dismissed as an untimely protest to the RFP specifications. Subsidiary issues presented are whether any such timeliness defect could be cured by allowing Petitioner to amend its Petition, and whether the points of entry provided to Petitioner with the RFP, as amended, were ineffective to operate as clear points of entry because Respondent did not also post the RFP and addenda amending the RFP on the MyFloridaMarketPlace vendor bid system.Petition is an untimely specifications challenge; Petitioner knowingly waived clear points of entry to protest RFP specifications as amended by addenda; posting RFP/addenda on MyFloridaMarketPlace not required because of statutory and rule exceptions.
