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B-179305 1 (1973-10-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaadml0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548:, B-179305 October 23,. 1973 The Honorable Arthur P. Sampsom Administrator, General Services Admini tration Dear Mr. Sampsont In a letter dated July 25, 1973, your General Counsel requested a decision as to the action to be taken concerning an error alleged by Mr. Joe Myers of Myers New Steel & Metals to have been made in the bid upon which sales contract No. GS-04-DP(S)-3-2616 was based. Invitation for bids (IFB) No. 4DPS 73-128 was issued on January 24, 1973, offering for sale 41 lots of electrical copper 'wire and cable. Bids were opened on February 22, 1973. and the record indicates that-Myers submitted high bids on items 23, 24, 25, 27, 32 and 33. The bids were accepted and Notice of Aard mailed on February 23, 1973. Payment was made to the custodian and the property was removed by Myers on February 27, 1973. The items were offered for sale by the lot. Reels and spools of wire and cable were described by single, 2, 3, 4, or more, stranded copper conductors, size, type insulation, and approximate total length in feet. Myers' claim of mistake alleged after award of the contract concerns all six awarded items. We have been advised informally that the items are currently in storage at Myers' place of business. By letter dated March 5, 1973, to the General Services Administration sales office, Mr. Myers alleged a mistake in bid due to miscalculations in preparing his estimates. Mr. Myers states that after inspecting the sale lots in the disposal area, he phoned his Tallahassee, Florida, office and issued instructions to an employee to waigh a 1-foot leagth sample taken earlier from lilte material offered for sale at the Cape Kennedy disposal activ- ity. Mr. Myers states the employee mistakenly celected a 2-foot length and erred by furnishing him with the estimated weight on this sample. Calculating the percentage of recoverable copper, Mr. Myers' estimate was prepared by converting feet to pounds but the bid was made and computed on the approximate number of feet offered in each lot as requested in the invitation. Mr. Myers states that this mistake remlted in his overestimating the weight / /!C~ --r ie - C.44' M 6- -El ~ 0c7/S37

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