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COMPTtOLLER GENERAL OF Thit UNITED STATES
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-qAUG 211973
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Zaa Umorable Donald So Johmson
Adxnatrator, Veterans Admintstratt0
Dear Mr. Johnsobg
Reference ImAe to letter 13410 dated ly 17, .973, with enclosxes,
frcm the Director, 8upply Bervice, Dpartcn+. of 14edtckne and Oireryp
requetin a decisiontia to the aeticn to be tacien conernir, an error
alleged by the 3tropoltsn Wire GoWs orporation (:etrVo~Utan) to have
been ndAe on itcas and P of ith bid up= vhtch controt fo. V9-TP2'II
in baud.
The Vetera M mAintnitration (VA) 3tretin- Center, ]line*, I#linoio,
by nolicitationt o, IH.1-O-73 noquooted bid on estimated quantities% oC
four Steam ot mobile otorage ohe).viw, to be mlrchaoed as required by the
VA and othr authorized vsenies during the poriod January 1 throvgh Dec(o
ber 31, 1973. Delivery o the atoree shelving under itfnm 1 e nd 2 van to
be nade to zix zones. Pro~cctivc bidders ver u u'vined an pasle 1 of tho
solicitatten that items ! uIand 26ch:1 be in acconlance with milittry npcci-
fication 3J11&i810 A; dated ln'ch 31, 1970s with exceptions and cptions.
In rooaipue 3ctropolitan vubmitt-d a bid o1Terln7 to i'rmtoh, amonj other
itenm, tbe t.aT.,;'e chelving dencrtbcd under itzI. n r '. at unit prces
of 4162.17 ani 411.52, renlbetively. Tho bid uf Htropolitnu acepted
*a t item I thouah 4on December 29, 13912@
1y lete dated 'Febriary 1, 1973, and suboequent Corrcsapdence, ti'
contraoting .fcer learned frca the YA hospital at Chl2licothe, Cto, that
storere vheviq deliyered by letropolitan under ita 1 and 2 of contrmat
o. V7m-2(ThO did not hav. slotted or louvered nhl vco ar. requirtd by
!nagraph 3,%# of the opecifl.cationa sot forth on pre 8 of the coloita-
Ito. Th reeord indicates that the hospital ya direeted by hicher nuthor-
Sty to return the shcvingM to etropoliton ...... ...
Metropolita alleges that &fl of its bid prices, inoluding those for
item I 3na 2 veor based on l5%lahng wire shelves and that it ovorlottnd
the specifioationo on page 8 of the aolicitation vhich retjuired slotted or
luvered ahelving under items Imid 2*. he corporation atates it does not
'mufscture slotted or louvered oholving and requests that the npecifica.
tios be chanPc so that wire shell;tn8 wil bo acceptable under items 1 sd
2 or, in the alternative, items I. eM 2 of tie cuitract bu canceled vithovt
llJ±i-ty tc. the corporation.
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