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B-178902 1 (1973-11-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaadmg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: !.9 , 9 n COMPTIoLLER GENEPIAL OF TtIE UNITED STAT-M % wAIrnCTON4 D.e. m Inag 1-178902 November 12, 1973 Jeasen and Starrle Attorneys at Law 1029 gest Third Avenue Anchorage, Alaska 99501 Attention: Jeffrey H. eoth, # q. Cantlemon: Reference is made to your telefax nessa dated June 27, 1973, and subsequent correspondence, protesting on behalf of Red J, Inc., against the award of a contract to any othor bidder under invitation for bids (IFB) I o, DAFA0-73--0107, issued at Fort Richardson, Alaska. The invitation in question requested bids to be submitted in building 977, Roo 114 by 1:30 p.m. on Hlay 25, 1973. The invitation further stated that the procurement was to be a 100-percent set-aside for snll L4:siness. Six bids were received under schedule A of the solicitatioa and five were received under schedule B. On the day of bid opening, one of the bidders, Jet Services, Inc., sent a telegraphic modification of their bid, increasing the prompt payment discount of 10 percent to 17 percent, to the procuring agency. The telegram was received at 7s10 a.a. at the telegraph office in Alaska. The telegraph office then ewaunicated the contents of the telegram to procurement personnal at '#be installation, the message being received and recorded at 9:45 a.u. Uowever, the telegraphic message was neithar placed fn a vealed enveln e nor forvarded to the proper room uhere bid opening ao to occur later that day. 49 That aftcsaoon, while bids wore in the process of being opened, Miss Achison, the recitient of the wassage, noticed that it war Btill on her desk and ot in the bid room. The message wats then delivered to the bid room and publicly announced. Tho effect of the teleg:aa was to reduce Jet Services' high bid to a lower position (lower than Red J, Inc., but still above other bidders which norc later disqualified for nrcs reasns). r r4

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