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B-197785.2 1 (1980-07-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjul0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Office of Washington, DC 20548 General Counsel In Reply Refer to: B-197785.2' July 7, 1980 Mr. James R. Dryden Acting Director of Administrative Services United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service P. O. Box 2417 Washington, D.C. 20013 Dear Mr. Dryden: Reference is made to your letter of June 4, 1980 to our Office rqesajng advice on the appropriate pro- cedures to be used in the c-orrection of 7parent clerical mistakesin bidsin light of a statement in G. S. Hulsev Crushing, Inc., B-197785, March 25, 1980, 80-1 CPD 222. Before discussing that matter, we must disagree ,with your introductory statement that the Hulsey solic- itation provision effectively precluded any correction of the contract unit prices shown on the bids received and materially negated the use of § 1-2.406-2 of the Federal Procurement Regulations (FPR) to correct any apparent clerical mistakes. That solicitation provision provided: Extended unit prices must equal the total bid amount. In the event they do not, unit prices shall govern. Despite the presence of a provision substantially similar to the above clause in many solicitations, we have consistently held that if the evidence establishes that a mistake was made in the unit price and that the extended price is correct, the extended price must con- *trol. 40 Comp. Gen. 191 (1960). For example, in Engle Acoustic & Tile, Inc., B-190467, January 27, 1978, 78-1 CPD 72, which also had a unit prices shall covern clause like that in Hulsey, we permitted award on the basis of

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