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B-195757 1 (1980-01-21)

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            COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
                     WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548



SB-195757                                   January 21, 1980






The Honorable Edward Hidalgo
The Secretary of the Navy
Washington, D.C. 20350

Dear Mr. Secretary:

      We have received the Assistant Secretary's letter
 of November 28, 1979, responding to our recommendation
 for corrective action in Norfolk Shipbuilding & Drydock
 Corporation, 58 Comp. Gen.     , 79-2 CPD 214. In effect,
 we recommended that firms wanting to bid only for all
 the specified overhaul work, that is both topside and
 drydock work, be permitted to do so without having to
 commit themselves to perform a divisible portion of the
 work.

      The Navy now proposes to eliminate the requirement
 for separately bidding the topside work where a bid for
 all (drydock and topside) work also is submitted.
 However, the Navy intends to continue to require a
 separate bid for drydock work from any firm bidding
 on the combination basis.

      We appreciate your desire to enhance competition
 for the topside work by enabling firms without drydock
 facilities to compete for only topside work in combi-
 nation with a separate drydock work bid. However, we
 feel compelled to advise you that while the Navy may
 request firms that submit combination bids to submit
 separate bids for the drydock work and/or topside
 work, a low combination bid that fails to bid sepa-
 rately for drydock or topside work, may not be rejec-
 ted as indicated in our prior decision.

                                Sincerely yours,



                        For The Comptrolle   eneral
                                of the United States

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