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B-178043 1 (1973-07-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaczz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I cC IL Liii9 COMPTRGLIER GENERA[. OF THE LNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. .M41 % -176043' July 27, 1973 .*S lIrael & Maness Attorneys at Law 1015 Eighteeuth Street, s1W. Washington, D.C. 20036 Attentions Fred Israel, Esquire Oentlematn: fTis is in reply to the February 19, 1973, telegram from counsel for Rutt Moving and Storoge, Incorporated, and to your subsequent correspondence, protesting the aiar! of a contract to anothor firm under invitation for bide DABE I3-73,.B-0019, Issued by the Department of the Army at Fort Riley, Kansas. The solititattos was for local packing and coatainerLzation services incident to both local and long distance transportation of personal property belonging to Department of Defense personnel. Rtt submitted the lot bid con three of the tour separato schedule sdctions for wh'ch contracts could be awarded. lowaer, cnother company objectEa to any award to Rutt because Rutt tid not possesu operating authority from the Interstate Commerce Conmiasion (ICc). The coitracting officor originally took the position that ICC operating authority was not. required for award of tho contract, but the Department of the Army (Office of the Assistant Secretary (Installations & Logistics)) deterinned that a contract should be awarded only tn a source possessing an appropriate ICC permit. rut's protest followed. No award ha been made foe the itemu on which utt was the low bidder. The invitation did not Contain efther a rpectfic provision requiring bidders to have ICC operating authority or a iroviaon requirinf bidders to comply with all Fcderal, State, antoacel / 1 (7?I (( II yv 44-

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