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B-177693 1 (1973-05-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaadxz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -- • ., COMPTROLLER GENERAL. OF TME UNITED STATES •a WASIINGTON. D.C. IS0 V . -1347693 Vay 1,1973 997 Liutenant Gene.ral Wallace H. )obinaon, 3r, gfyr* Director, Defense Supply Agency A Dear General Robinson; tell We refer to letter DSI-o dated ).!arch l2, 1973, from the Assistant CAnsel, Headquarters, Cameron ftstion, reporting on thefequest ot-Q- a Wner Mth1a . U1 prl?, for relief from an errorTn bidjalleged on item 2. of seles contract U6. fl.-3007.405. The Defense [urplus ales Office (DSBO), Itildelphis Pennsylvania, by sales invitation flo. 1-3007 requested bids for the purchase of various items, including item 21 which consisted of eighty'seven block. tackle snutches, unused, in ftir condition, whose acquisition cost was $8,Co. The established cureat market appraical for the equipment no 4v per unit, The twenty-four bids received by bid opening on Auguat 1, 1972, ranged from one dollar each to Winer's bid of 446.95 ptr unit which wa emare than twice the aount of the next highest bid (,22.222). On Auast h, 1972, the contract for item 21 was awarded to inev. 9 On Avu..ust 8, 1972, Uiner advised the sales cortntreting officer by tolepone that a maotake hod been made in the sale price sice it had bid $18.95 per unit. Prior to bid opening, by a telegram dated July 31, 3972, Winor made several bid modifications including an increase to be added to its oxrir.inae2 bid of 115,n5 per unit for item 21. The telegram dlivered to DSO ohoiod en increase of *3. per unit for item 21 rather than an increase of 43.00 per uit alleged by liner. On Aucuat 9, 1972, a Duplicate and Corrected copy of Winer's oriinal telegram of July 31, 1972, ire received by D380 correcting item 21 to shoy an increase of 61300 per unit. Weten Lb 4ng eon- ficd, by a letter dated Auguot i, 1972, thAt the original nesnaao given to the Akro n, Ohio, ofTice read 43.O0' end that the error epparenrly occurred during its trancieion. Ordinarily, a wide range of bid prices received for surplus property in not sufficient to place a contracting officer on construc- tive unotice of an error in the pureceer'a bit.. hloitver, in this cece, the incroase of *31.0 y er unit rer4Ltcd in nerxrly a P.00-perecnt 0qf31

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