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B-400712 1 (2008-12-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadarl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: iL G A O Comptroller General fi.7!7 Accountabiity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: Mill City Partnership File: B-400712 Date: December 16, 2008 Richard E. Briansky, Esq., Prince, Lobel, Glovsky & Tye, for the protester. Gary J. Campbell, Esq., McCarter & English, LLP, for the intervenor. Madeline Shay, Esq., Corps of Engineers, for the agency. Cherie Owen, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Bid of a joint venture, which submitted a bid bond in the name of only one of the corporations forming the joint venture, was properly rejected by the agency as nonresponsive. DECISION Mill City Partnership of Lowell, Massachusetts protests the rejection of its bid under invitation for bids (IFB) No. W912WJ-08-B-0006, issued by the Army Corps of Engineers, for environmental restoration of the Mill River and Mill Pond in Stamford, Connecticut. The Corps determined that Mill City Partnership's bid was nonresponsive because there was a discrepancy between the legal entity shown on the bid and the legal entity shown on the bid bond. We deny the protest. The IFB, issued on August 11, 2008, required a bid guarantee in the form of a bid bond in the amount of 20 percent of the bid. Mill City Partnership, the apparent low bidder at $5,678,625, identified itself in the bid forms alternately as Mill City Environmental Corp. (MCE), or Mill City Environmental Corp. w/ Teaming Partner C.R.C. Co., Inc. (Mill City Partnership).' Agency Report (AR) Tab 13. 1 While the bid contains conflicting statements as to whether the bid was submitted by MCE or Mill City Partnership (see Contracting Officer's Statement at 3), it is (continued...)

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