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B-180613 1 (1974-07-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadcdm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENEMAL DECISION i OF THE UNITED STATES VVASHINGTON, D. C. 20548 FILE: B-180613 DATE: July 5, 1974 MATTER OF: General Time Corporation Bidder's reauest for contract modification some 16 months after award of contract to cover material costs for component of end item, the price for which had been inad- vertently omitted frozt. its bid, cannot be granted since contracting officer adequately discharged his bid verification duty prior to acceptance by calling to bidder's attention noticeable variance in its total bid and next low bid; furthermore, identification of error as being omission of component price in item 1 of several line items was not possible since IFB did not separately list prices for each component under item 1. Solicitation WA5M-2-7715B1 was issued April 12, 1972, on a. two-step formal advertising basis by the Department of Transporta- tion, Federal Aviation Agency (FAA), for video mapping systems (5 channel), replaceable printed circuit boards, and ancillary software and training items. General Time Corporation (GTC) and Spartan Electronics Corporation (Spartan) submitted technically acceptable step-one proposals. Step two bids were sought from each firm by issuance of an invitation for bids (IFB) on June 8, 1972. At bid opening on June 15, 1972, GTC was found to be the lowest responsive bidder at $1,261,844. Spartan's bid was $1,729,838. The contracting officer, upon reviewing the bids on the date of opening, noticed that GTC's quoted prices were much lower than Spartan's, and therefore requested that GTC verify its quoted prices as being accurate and correct in order to avoid any mathematical or clerical error prior to acceptance. GTC responded by telegram on the same day confirming that its prices were accurate and correct. Consequently, on June 30, 1972, award was made to GTC. - 1 - DIGEST:

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