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B-197262 1 (1980-03-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadicw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION -OF THE UNITED STATEB WASHINGTON. D.C. 20546 FILE: B-197262 DATE: March- 28, 1980 MATTER OF: Allied Printing Company DIGEST: Contracting officer adequately discharged verification duty by directing bidder's attention to discrepancy in bid between per M rates for base and additional quantities; therefore, there is no legal basis for rescission of contract awarded after verification. The Government Printing Office (GPO) has requeste our decision as to whether purchase order H2211 awarded to Allied Printing Company (Allied) may be rescinded because of a mistake in bid alleged after award. The purchase order is for 408,000 (+,250) data form pads. Allied's bid in the amount `_ $80,184 was the low bid. The other eight bids ranged from $95,000 to $153,146. The contracting officer requested by telephone that the president of Allied verify the bid because the $204.70/M additional rate bid by Allied for application to any purchase above 408,000 (+ 250) was larger than the $196.57/M base rate. The president of Allied verified the base rate during the telephone con- versation and stated that the additional.rate should have been $195.55/M. A written verification followed the oral verification. Award was subsequently made to Allied. After the purchase order was awarded, Allied alleged that an error had been made in computing the base rate. The error was based on the fact that the bid was prepared on the basis that each pad would have 50 pages instead of the 100 required, resulting in a substantial underestimate of paper and manufacturing time. Allied furnished work- sheets to support the error. Allied states its price should have been $141,030. L L-- eL4 arj 11 fU 1 ' -C

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