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B-293647 1 (2004-05-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaczfv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0Comptroller General .. . .Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: Thompson Metal Fab, Inc. File: B-293647 Date: May 4, 2004 Gregory L. Powell, Esq., Foster Pepper Tooze, for the protester. Rodney R. Mills, Esq., Seifer, Yeats, Mills & Zwierzynski, for Triad Mechanical, Inc., an intervenor. J. Tyler Moore, Esq., United States Army Corps of Engineers, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Bid that contained multiple photocopies of bid schedule for one option, as substitutes for the bid schedule pages for three other options without clearly indicating that the photocopied pages were intended to relate to the other options required to be priced under the invitation for bids, was properly rejected as ambiguous and thus nonresponsive. DECISION Thompson Metal Fab, Inc., a small business, protests the rejection of its bid as nonresponsive to perform the McNary Lock and Dam Spillway Gate Rehabilitation project for the United States Army Corps of Engineers under invitation for bids (IFB) No. DACW68-03-B-0020. Thompson argues that its bid was unambiguous and responsive to the IFB. We deny the protest. The Corps issued the IFB on November 26, 2003. A series of amendments to the IFB were issued. As relevant here, on December 29, the Corps issued an amendment providing substitute pages for the bid schedule, Section 00010 of the solicitation. As amended, the bid schedule consisted of ten pages, reflecting a base requirement (two pages) plus four options (two pages each). The base requirement provided for the rehabilitation of four gates. Each of the four options provided for the rehabilitation of one additional gate. The options were denominated Option A -- Rehabilitate First Additional Gate through Option D -- Rehabilitate Fourth Additional Gate. RFP amend. 2, § 00010. For the successive additional gate options,

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