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B-283172.2 1 (1999-10-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajlm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa E Comptroller General of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Jamco Constructors, Inc. File: B-283172.2 Date: October 4, 1999 Richard R. Flowers, Jr., Esq., Fairfield, Farrow, Flowers, Pierson & Strotz, and Bari A. Hankins, Jamco Constructors, Inc., for the protester. M. Brooke Lamson, Esq., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Procuring agency properly rejected protester's bid for transformers as nonresponsive, where bid included descriptive literature for two transformers, the literature for one showed it did not meet solicitation requirement, and bid did not indicate which transformer would be furnished; it thus was not clear that protester was offering to meet all solicitation requirements. DECISION Jamco Constructors, Inc. protests the rejection of its bid as nonresponsive under invitation forbids (IFB) No. DACW54-99-B-0015, issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for replacement of a transformer and electrical upgrade work at the Island Creek Pumping Station, John H. Kerr Reservoir, near Boydton, Virginia. We deny the protest. The IFB required bidders to submit descriptive literature, including a sketch or drawing, for the transformer being offered. IFB at 00100-6, 00010-8. The IFB cautioned that if the descriptive literature failed to show that the product offered conforms to the requirements of the solicitation, the bid would be rejected. IFB at 00100-6. Jamco submitted drawings for both a Delta Star, Inc. transformer and a General Electric (GE) Prolec transformer. The Corps determined from the drawings that the GE transformer was unacceptable because (among other reasons) the drawings showed the low-voltage bushings on the incorrect sidewall. Although the Delta Star

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