Global Water Conditioning v. Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services, Division of Forestry

WENTWORTH, Judge.

Appellant seeks review of an administrative order dismissing its protest of appel-lee’s contract bid decision. Appellee declined to provide appellant an administrative hearing, determining that the formal written protest was insufficient because it did not include a copy of appellee’s bid tabulation. We find that in the context of this case this omission was not fatal to appellant’s protest and hearing request, since the formal protest was in substantial compliance with the form as required by the pertinent rules. We therefore reverse the order appealed.

Appellant submitted a…