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          BaU is and Hoyt
          Attorneyc at Law
          2661 North Lincoln Avenua
          Chicavo, flhtnoti 6o614
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              Attention: lC14A iB. eni's,   re

         Gentlaezem
              Referenoe is mde to your letbear date  Ajr 28, 19731 and prior
         cerrespondenoe# protesting in behalfo U. Si. &Udfrg XMatutenanoe#
         Division of Transcontinental Cleanng Cempn, Incorporated, aeinst
         the sword of a contract to the low bidder, Able Mintenanoe Services
       * Copny Incurporated (Able)p under invitation for bid No, 1162477o
         73-C-040 issued March 9, 1973, by the evtal. Ship Rmaxrch and Develop-
         sat Center, M nnpolie aboratory# Annapoli    rynd.

(             The invitation, &% mended, csaers custodial nervites for Navy
        building. located at the Anapolis InstcUation   Bidu were opened
        Aril 13, 1973, and the low bid was sulaitted by Able. You conted
        that this bid may not be aepted becaue it    . unsign4..
             The unsigned bid, howmer, was acoatiided by a %signed Amend-
         &ent No 2 (although Amendment No. Iwas unsigned) en& a ijned Bid
         Bonds bobh by Alonzo Reid, Jr., as president of Able. The Navy pro-
         poses to accept the low bid in accordance with AS 2-05(iii)(B)
         which provides that the failure of a bidder to sign bin bid ray be
         waived &a a  hinor infty if:

              the unsigned bid is accompanied by other mterial
              indicatins the bidder's inten4ion to be bound by
              the unsigned bid dcument such &u the subaission
              of a bid guarantee with bid, or a letter signed
              by the bidder with the bid referring to and closrly
              identifying the bid itself; ** **

              The above cited regulation i in accord vita deoialons orour'
         Office in which we have held that on unsigned bid may be connidereC
         for awrd if accompanied by some docuentary evidtnou showing i
         clear .intention by the bidder to submit the bid in question. $6
         ccp. Gen. 523 (1957); 3-164O40, June 26, 1968. In the intant
         case the signed Amendment ?lo. 2 and the signod Bid Bond aeccupanying
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