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- COMPTROLLER GENZrRAL OF THE UNITED STATES
WASMIN*TON. D.C. .1S48
D.75393 IAY 17 1973
The l0O=-able Arthur F. Samson
Actins Lniitrator, General Servioes
Adiatration BS 5 JL 2
~BEST G -JjL a
Dear , . flmpon;
]oference is =e to letter dated April 2, 1973, pith enclosures,
fro tho General Counsel, requesting a decision as to the action to
be talzn concerningtan error allegcd by the A. 1itneral Corporation
to have been made in its bid upon vblch contract No. GS-OOS-16J
was based,
Tho Federal Supply Service, General Services Adinittration,
Wshinvoz, D. o. by invitdionT for bids 11o. I'FW7-*-1S3-52533-At-O-
31-72, requested bido under item 2 for turaishing 40 type U trucks,
cargo1 ickup$ n accordanco irith NIL SMSO TL-T-h12174 dated Auit, 15,
1970, p d aor delivory to four destinations. In re.ponse, Al General
Corporution u bmitted a bid offering to fLrnich the trucks under sub-
items A tbru 1, inclusive, of item 2 at unit prices ranging from
3,278-96 to $3,h23.S. The only other bid on item 2 in unit prices
ranging fra m #'300 to $4,478 wmis eubmitt -d by tho Chrysler CoTorationd.
The bid of AM Uoueral wa ccepted as to items I d 2.
Upon examining tha CV-l0Q Vehicle Quationntax rsumitte'by
AM (krietal nder the contract, it van noted that the corporation
ntenae to fua. oh under item 2 a t-rosdoor pickup truck in lieu. of
the apecifie.f u-door pickup truck, The corporation as contacted
by telephone and reciwncted to verify the typ o vehicle being turnichod,
A CIinara3l advined the contracting office that en error hcA been made
in itu bid on item 2 in that it was asod on Lurnichiug a type Ii
(tuowdoor cab) rather than a type xfl (tour-door cab) truck. In a
connxmim letter, the corporation flle ,e&u th.st the error in its bid
resulted frau thr falum of the invitation to ruy describe the type
of vehicle, thet is et-door or four.-door cab, on hicb bids vere
requested. The corporation ntated that it intoniud to bid under item
2 on a type :., clans B, truc4 car go picnxp (to-door cab)D &md tbat
it doen not now build ad never has built a type II, class B, truck,
ca'go, picup, dth a tour-door cab, In suwort of its allegation of
error, the corporntica submittcd its cost worlheet and part of its
1973 catalog.
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