Section 3-143-204 - Submission and receipt of proposals(a) Proposals shall be submitted to purchasing agencies no later than the submittal deadline. Proposals may be submitted by hand-delivery or United States mail. (1) Proposals submitted by hand-delivery shall be deemed received when actually received by the purchasing agency; and(2) Proposals submitted by United States mail shall be deemed received on the post-mark date, provided the proposal is actually received by the purchasing agency within ten days from the postmark date. Proposals received after the deadline shall be rejected in accordance with section 3-143-603.(b) Proposal submittals by electronic means. Proposals submitted by electronic means, including telefacsimiles, shall be allowed only when expressly authorized in the request for proposals and shall be in accordance with section 3-143-502.(c) Procedure for receiving documents. Unless an alternate procedure is proposed by a purchasing agency and approved by its chief procurement officer, proposals, modifications to proposals, and withdrawals of proposals shall be received according to the procedure in this subsection. Upon receipt of proposals by a purchasing agency at a designated location, proposals, modifications to proposals, and withdrawals of proposals shall be date-stamped and, when possible, time-stamped. In addition to such time- and date-stamping, purchasing agencies may issue receipts to applicants. All documents so received shall be held in a secure place by the purchasing agency and not examined for evaluation purposes until the submittal deadline.(d) The purchasing agency shall keep a register of all proposals received in accordance with section 3-143-615.[Eff 6/19/99; am and comp JAN 23 2006] (Auth: HRS § 103F-106) (Imp: HRS § 103F-402)