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B-192346 1 (1978-09-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadgme0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THU COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION . OP THE UNITED WTATWW WAsINOaN, 0,aC. a05 FILE: 50192346 DATE: September 25, 1978 MATTER OF: E* Walters & Company, Inc. DIGEST: Request for upward correction of alleged erroneous bid is denied, since original bid price was based on entirely different process from procean proposed with request for correction. Correction cannot-be allowed since it requires recalcu- lation of bid to include factor not originally considered by Ltdder. Pursuantto?) A astAeein bid alleged before award, E. Walter@/& Comany, Inc. (E. Walters), tequests an upy:rdt'orrectin-of its bid unfer'invi-- tation for bids (IFB), DAAK10-78B--0075, issued by the United States Army Armament Researci; and Develop- meit Command (AARADCOM), Dover, New Jersey1 on April 14, 1978. Bids were opened on June 9, 1978, and E. Walters was-the'low bidder, Evaltion of bids byAARADCOb, revealed tha't E. WAlters' bid was coqsiderably below thi\otherafive bids-received and alartedthe contracting offic'er t6o the possibility of amidje in .E.Walters' bid. On Juhe 12, 1978, the contracting officer requested that E; WaltGts verify its bid ih1li htzof the possi- bility of error An accordaince with, paragraph 2-406 .1 of the Armed Services Procurement Regulation (ASPR) (1976 ed.). By lettir of June 21, 1978, E. Walters stated that it had made a mistake in its'bid and requested per- mission to either correct the mistake or withdraw the bid in accordance with ASPR S 2-406.3 (1976 ed.). E. Walters alleqed that the mistakejwia s used by an ambiguity.in paragraph 4.4.2.6 of mililty'j specification MIL-C-63239(AR) which was incorporated into the IFB. Specifically, E. Walters drgued that paragraph 4.4.2.6, dealing with classification of defects and quality control tests, was misleading

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